Joseph Pennell, Pen drawing

Pennell, Joseph (1920/ 2013), Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen : their work and their methods : a study of the art today with technical suggestions.

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Pennell Fotografie

David Hockney. Secret Knowledge, Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters. Review by Francesco Mazzaferro. Part Three | Letteratura artistica

The thesis of a systematic use of the camera obscura by Vermeer [120] actually already dated back to the nineteenth century. In 1891, in fact, the American etcher Joseph Pennell interpreted the difference in scale between the two figures, observable in Officer and Laughing Girl, as a consequence of the use of optical instruments [121] 

[121] Pennell, Joseph - Photography as a hindrance and a help to art, British Journal of Photography, no. 1618, vol. XXXVIII, 1891, pp. 294-296.


 

Many artists saw the perspective created by the camera lens as being as being a distortion, an unnatural reading of the subject. Yet, as would later be proved, the camera’s perspective was entirely natural—it was the expansion of perspective which was commonplace in paintings which was false. The painter George Frederick Watts (1817–1904) believed that photography “has unfortunately introduced into art a misconception of perspective which is as ugly as it is false,” and the American artist Joseph Pennell (1857–1926) was so disillusioned by the perspective created by the camera that he abandoned using photographs as reference.

For much of the second half of the nineteenth century, the lenses used in architectural and landscape photogra-phy were of relatively long focal length, requiring quite a substantial camera to subject distance in the case of churches and cathedrals. Such lenses—with a eld of view of between 10 and 30 were essential if large format images were to be created which exhibited the degree of sharpness demanded by early photographers. Until optical manufacturing techniques advanced suf ciently to eliminate spherical aberration, long fo- cal length lenses were the surest way of achieving a perfectly at image eld across the entire plate area. The effect of that was to create a slight compression of perspective—the atness about which Leighton, Watts, Pennell and others complained. By the end of the century, with wide-angle lenses offering elds of view of between 50 ̊ and 80 ̊, photography was able to create the same sort of enhanced perspective so beloved of painters.

 

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Pennell - Henry James

A Little Tour in France (Annotated & Illustrated) Paperback – Illustrated, September 29, 2016

by Henry James (Author), Joseph Pennell (Illustrator)

 

 

 

 

 

Pennell Rouen Cathedral

Joseph Pennell (1857–1926), Rouen Cathedral (1907)

gedurende de restauratie...

The West Front, Rouen Cathedral

 

Pennell, a Philadelphia-born Quaker, spent the first two decades of his career abroad, living primarily in London, where he became a close associate of Whistler. Here, he represents the main facade of Rouen's medieval cathedral, in northern France, a scaffolding erected at one end and figures walking on the plaza,. The artist printed about ninety proofs.

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Pennell: Notre Dame

Notre-Dame de Paris : le portail Nord, Joseph Pennell, 1893. (C ...

Joseph Pennell: Rouen

Joseph PENNELL , Rouen Cathedral, the west front, during restoration
1907

 Volgens Karel VDW: Pennell was één de etsers die JDB hebben beïnvloed. 

Joseph Pennell (1857 – 1926) werkte in de States, verhuist in 1884 naar Engeland en wordt bevriend met Whistler.

"Whistler entrusted the Pennells to write his biography, which was published in 1908."

Joseph Pennell

Joseph Pennell  (1857-1926)
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"Born in Philadelphia, and first studied there, but like his compatriot and friend, James McNeill Whistler, he afterwards went to Europe and made his home in London. Joseph Pennell had many etchings that depicted historic landmarks in the city of Philadelphia."

"American artist, illustrator, teacher, and author Joseph Pennell (1857–1926) was working in Germany when the Great War started. After returning to his longtime home base in England, he embarked on a hallmark World War I series of prints and drawings in that battered Allied nation. He continued the series after returning to America in 1917, as the United States entered the war."

Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in England, reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British government : Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Grafisch werk aan architectuur gewijd.
In het Gentse Salon (1909)