Bethlehem Steel Works,Pennsylvania,PA,May 1881,Iron Company,Blowing Smoke
Title: [Bethlehem Steel Works]
Creator(s): Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926, artist
Date Created/Published: 1881 May.
Summary: Pennsylvania, Bethlehem. As Wuerth described, 'Watercolor in sepia brown, white and gray, on buff paper. Signed May '81.' [View across river to relatively small steel operation, various smokestacks, one blowing fire, smoky sky above, hills beyond.]
Notes:
Exhibited: The Pennell Legacy: Two Centuries of Printmaking, An Exhibition at the Library of Congress, December 1983 through May 1984.
Inscribed on mount: 62.
Published in: Pennell, Joseph. The Adventures of an Illustrator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925, Limited edition, p. VII, with the caption 'The Bethlehem Steel Works-wash drawing 1881-drawn for the article on the Moravians in the Century but not used-first important Wonder of Work drawing.'
Signed in pencil, LC: JoPennell/May 81.
Wuerth, L.A. List of original drawings and paintings, Miscellaneous, following London, Walter Besant.
Bequest; Joseph Pennell Estate; 1926-1937; (PR 06 CN 316.2717).
Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection.
Subjects:
Bethlehem Iron Company--Buildings--1880-1890.
Steel industry--Pennsylvania--Bethlehem--1880-1890.
Drawings--Color--1880-1890.
Watercolors--1880-1890.
Bookmark /97517130/
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