Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Having established himself in London as an etcher of urban architectural views, Joseph Pennell returned to the United States in 1917 and turned his attention to watercolors of New York subjects. This work is probably one of a series of twenty views titled Out of a Brooklyn Window that Pennell exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum’s 1921 watercolor exhibition. The manner in which Pennell constructed the composition of abbreviated areas of dark and light forms recalls the compositional methods of his English friend and mentor James McNeill Whistler.
Caption
Joseph Pennell (American, 1860–1926). Brooklyn Bridge, before 1921. Transparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on gray-blue, moderately thick, rough and pitted-textured wove paper, 13 5/8 x 10 1/16 in. (34.6 x 25.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Jerome B. and Renee Weinstein, 1994.166. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Brooklyn Bridge
Date
before 1921
Geography
Place made: United States
Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on gray-blue, moderately thick, rough and pitted-textured wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
13 5/8 x 10 1/16 in. (34.6 x 25.6 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right, in graphite: "Pennell"
Credit Line
Gift of Jerome B. and Renee Weinstein
Accession Number
1994.166
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