The Temple of Nike, Athens

1913

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names
Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

The image is captured from a slightly elevated point of view, looking down onto architectural ruins. The horizon is positioned high in the image, with landscape details such as hills and a distant structure visible against the sky. The brushstrokes are detailed and textured, in a monochrome sketch style with bold and soft lines creating depth and structure. Closest to us are ruins composed of stone blocks, columns, and scattered remnants in rough terrain. Beyond these ruins, the landscape extends with more ruins and sparse vegetation leading to distant hills and a faint outline of another structure on the horizon. The image has a muted color palette of blacks, grays, and whites emphasizing the contrast and details of the architectural features and natural landscape.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.6829

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wuerth 1931, no. 320


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1931

  • Wuerth, Louis A. Catalogue of the Lithographs of Joseph Pennell. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1931.

Wikidata ID

Q65022527

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