Rainy Night, Charing Cross Shops

1903

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names
Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

The image displays a bird's-eye view of a street scene on a rainy day. The composition focuses on the street with buildings lining the left side. People are scattered across the wet street, all carrying umbrellas, moving through the rain. A horse-drawn carriage is traveling along a road bordered by a fence. Thick and impressionistic brushstrokes create a sense of motion and rain through diagonal lines. The color palette is monochromatic, utilizing varying shades of black and brown, with the wet street reflecting light.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 27.7 x 21.4 cm (10 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 33.2 x 23.8 cm (13 1/16 x 9 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.98.175

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wuerth 1928, no. 274

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Conrad Graeber Fine Art, Glyndon, MD); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased September 26, 1998; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2003, no cat.

  • An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003.

Bibliography

1928

  • Wuerth, Louis A. Catalogue of the Etchings of Joseph Pennell. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1928.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: J Pennell imp

Wikidata ID

Q76346736

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