[Reflective river] – Vintage Print
![[Reflective river], [between ca. 1921 and 1926] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/70/70956445102a-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Reflective river] comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rather than a finished view, this sheet is a study of sky and water made from the window of Joseph Pennell's Brooklyn studio, with a sunset glowing over a river and ships moving through the reflected light. Pennell, an American printmaker and illustrator who spent much of his career drawing New York's waterfront, used loose washes of watercolor and gouache on tinted paper to catch how evening light breaks across the water. The drawing belongs to a group of sixty-three works that came to the Library of Congress from the Pennell estate after his death in 1926, and the sheet shows some water damage.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1921 and 1926] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on light blue paper with dark blue fibers : watercolor, gouache, charcoal ; sheet 26.5 x 33.3 cm. |
| Notes | Wuerth annotated this group with 3/63. Wuerth, L.A. List of original drawings and paintings, group of sixty-three drawings in watercolors. Subjects, sunset, sky and water notes done from Brooklyn Studio window, no. 3, p. 83. Bequest; Joseph Pennell Estate; 1926-1937; (PR 06 CN 316.3232). Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection. Conservation completed 8.98.810.2. Drawing appears to have sustained some water damage. |
| Subjects | Ships--1910-1930. Sunrises & sunsets--1910-1930. New York (N.Y.)--1910-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,307 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219356 |
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