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Making Rifles

1917

Joseph Pennell

Associated Names

Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

This is a drawing of an industrial interior. The image captures a spacious interior filled with rows of long tables or conveyor belts. The tables are populated with figures in motion. The high ceiling is complex, with beams and supports. The back wall features large windows that let in light, creating shadows. The drawing is impressionistic, using gestural strokes and a monochromatic palette.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph
Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number

1943.3.6906
Catalogue Raisonné

Wuerth 1931, no. 496

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1931

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

Wikidata ID

Q65022606

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