Flatiron Building

1904

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names
Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

The image shows a busy urban setting with tall buildings reaching into the sky, creating a vertical composition. The horizon is obscured by the merging structures and sky. The style features sketch-like brushstrokes, primarily made of fine, linear marks that imply movement and texture, akin to a pencil or charcoal drawing. The color scheme is monochromatic, with varying shades of gray providing a delicate presence. People are depicted as small, dark shapes close to the viewer, indicating a lively street scene, while architecture in the distance is lighter and more diffused against softly rendered clouds.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.77 × 16.19 cm (9 3/4 × 6 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 30.8 × 19.69 cm (12 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.1347

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wuerth 1931, no. 152

  • Series Title

    Iconophiles

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 18

1982

  • American Impressionist Prints, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 18

1990

  • Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 86, repro.

Bibliography

1931

  • Wuerth, Louis A. .Catalogue of the Lithographs of Joseph Pennell. Little, Brown and Co: Boston, 1931, p. 52, no. 152.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Jo Pennell; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 037; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: K5.

Markings

embossed lower left: SHUTZE / DIE / MARKE / GOTT / [windmill]; stamped lower right in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Wikidata ID

Q77008870

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