Joseph Pennell

John Flanagan, Joseph Pennell, 1919, relief/plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Anna Margaretta Archambault, 1946.8.1
Copied John Flanagan, Joseph Pennell, 1919, relief/plaster, 4 78 in. (12.4 cm) diam., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Anna Margaretta Archambault, 1946.8.1

Artwork Details

Title
Joseph Pennell
Date
1919
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
4 78 in. (12.4 cm) diam.
Credit Line
Gift of Anna Margaretta Archambault
Mediums
Mediums Description
relief/plaster
Classifications
Keywords
  • Occupation — art — artist
  • Portrait male — Pennell, Joseph — bust
  • Portrait male — Pennell, Joseph — profile
Object Number
1946.8.1

Artwork Description

John Flanagan’s plaster relief honors the artist Joseph Pennell (1857-1926), who led a revival of etching in the United States around the turn of the twentieth century. Pennell and his wife, Elizabeth Robins, were leading American illustrators, and in 1908 the couple collaborated on Life, a two-volume biography of American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903).