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The Big Mill, Gary, Indiana

1915

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names

Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

The image features an industrial scene with towering structures and smokestacks. The horizon is obscured by dense smoke and a network of factory buildings. The drawing style uses cross-hatching and bold lines to convey texture and depth. The color palette is monochromatic, with black and gray shades against a light background. Railway tracks lead towards a large industrial building, with smokestacks releasing dark smoke in the background.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 44.3 × 57.2 cm (17 7/16 × 22 1/2 in.)
sheet: 47 × 62.9 cm (18 1/2 × 24 3/4 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.3885
Catalogue Raisonné

Wuerth 1931, no. 405

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1931

Wuerth, Louis A. Catalogue of the Lithographs of Joseph Pennell. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1931, p. 148, no. 405.

1991

Beall, Karen F., and David W. Kiehl. Graphic Excusrions: American Prints in Black and White, 1900-1950, Selections from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. Boston, Massachusetts: D. R. Godine, 1991, p. 4

Inscriptions

lower left on stone: Pennell; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: The Big Mill, Gary, Indiana 1915 / W. 405

Wikidata ID

Q76443308

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