Joseph Pennell

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Joseph Pennell at the printing press, circa 1922

Joseph Pennell (born July 4, 1857 in Philadelphia , † April 23, 1926 in New York ) was an American lithographer , illustrator and author .

Life

Pennell was born in Philadelphia and studied first at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts , but like his compatriot and friend, James McNeill Whistler , he went to Europe and later moved to London (1884) and studied at the Slade School of Art .

He produced numerous books, many with his wife Elizabeth Robins (1855–1936), but his main focus was lithography and illustration . Their close acquaintance with the painter Whistler led Pannell to write a biography of the artist (1906). However, publication was postponed for two years (1908) because of a legal dispute over the artist's letters.

Pennell was the first to discover in 1891, in the Vermeer picture “ The Soldier and the Laughing Girl ”, that Jan Vermeer must have worked with a camera obscura due to the “photographic perspectives” .

Pennell's graphic oeuvre includes more than 1,800 etchings (he was a member of the New York Etching Club ) and lithographs as well as innumerable drawings (often pastels ) and many watercolors.

In 1908 Pennell was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1909 elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design .

Works (selection)

  • The Rising Sun Tavern , 1880

  • Poster, 1891

  • "The University of Alcala", 1903

  • Poster for Liberty Bonds , 1918

  • Lulworth Cove

literature

  • Louis A. Wuerth: Catalog of the Etchings of Joseph Pennell. Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco 1988, ISBN 978-0-915-34693-6 . (Eng., with a foreword by Elizabeth Robins Pennell)
  • Raven Grimassi: Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft. Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul MN 2000, ISBN 1-56718-257-7 .
  • Walter Sickert : The Complete Writings on Art. Edited by Anna Gruetzner Robins. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2000, ISBN 0-19-817225-7 .
  • Graeme Sullivan: Art Practice as Research. Inquiry in the Visual Arts. Sage Publications Inc., Thousand Oaks CA et al. 2005, ISBN 1-4129-0535-4 .

Web links

Commons : Joseph Pennell  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traditional reasons for thinking Vermeer used a camera obscura. ( Memento from May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ ifpda.org: Joseph Pennell, American (1857–1926) ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 11, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifpda.org
  3. ^ Members: Joseph Pennell. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "P" / Pennell, Joseph NA 1909 ( memento of the original from January 26, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 11, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
personal data
SURNAME Pennell, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American illustrator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1926
Place of death new York