Building Destroyers

1917

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names
Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

The print shows a detailed sketch of a shipyard scene. The shipyard is bustling with activity, featuring a large ship to the right of center surrounded by two tall cranes. Small boats are in the water near the dock on the left side, one near the bottom left corner containing the rough outlines of people. Behind the large ship on the right are other large ships that fade together into a patch of light gray. The sky above is filled with scribbled lines, suggesting a layer of large clouds.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.6884

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wuerth 1931, no. 505


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1931

  • Wuerth, Louis A. Catalogue of the Lithographs of Joseph Pennell. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1931.

Wikidata ID

Q65022583

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