Winter Sunset, New York Harbor

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Winter Sunset, New York Harbor

United States, circa 1921-1926
Drawings
Watercolor and gouache
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 13 in. (26.04 × 33.02 cm) Image: 10 1/4 × 13 in. (26.04 × 33.02 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Lottie V. Behrens (57.16.20)
Prints and Drawings
Not currently on public view

Label

From the exhibition New York, New York: The City as Muse in American Art September 19, 2003-February 18, 2004 ...
From the exhibition New York, New York: The City as Muse in American Art September 19, 2003-February 18, 2004 By the 1920s Pennell had come to view New York, where he had moved from London in 1917, as “the most marvelous and endless subject on the face of the earth.” In the years before his death he pictured New York not in the black-and-white etchings and lithographs for which he was famous but in lush colors and soft, fluid strokes of watercolor and gouache (opaque watercolor) that expressed the atmosphere of energy and activity enveloping the island of Manhattan.
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Bibliography

  • Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick.  American Art:  a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.