Anaconda, Montana

1915

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names
Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

The image displays a landscape with industrial elements. The horizon features buildings, smokestacks emitting smoke, a mound, and a turbulent sky with dynamic clouds. The art style includes bold brushstrokes and a monochromatic palette of blacks, grays, and white highlights. Additionally, there are distant mountains or hills, diagonal lines suggesting rainfall, and detailed ground texture leading towards the industrial scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • Dimensions

    image: 40.32 × 53.02 cm (15 7/8 × 20 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 47.31 × 62.55 cm (18 5/8 × 24 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.1349

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wuerth 1931, no. 408

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Library of Congress, Washington, DC; 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

1990

  • Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 96, repro

Bibliography

1931

  • Wuerth, Louis A. Catalogue of the Lithographs of Joseph Pennell. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1931, p. 149, no. 408.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: J Pennell; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Copper W. 408, Anaconda, Montana, 1915, 15 prfs

Markings

stamped center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]; stamped lower center verso in black ink: Surplus Duplicate Library of Congress

Watermarks

MBM (FRANCE)

Wikidata ID

Q77012462

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