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Forty-Second Street

1904

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names

Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

The image is an etching showing an urban scene with a bustling street surrounded by buildings. The street converges towards a vanishing point in the distance. The etching has a sketch-like style with fine lines and stippling. The color palette is monochromatic in shades of black and white. There are multi-storey buildings and an elevated rail structure in the background, with pedestrians and carriages in the foreground.

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching
Credit Line

Gift of Addie Burr Clark
Accession Number

1946.9.178
Catalogue Raisonné

Wuerth 1928, no. 350

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1963

American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 157.

Bibliography

1928

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

Wikidata ID

Q65080079

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