"The Bridges from Brooklyn" by Joseph Pennell, Amer., (1857-1926) Oil 11-7/8 x 17-5/8

11-7/8 x 17-5/8

Smith's embrace of historical subjects is unusual in this medium

The swarming crowd pressed here against towering masts of fishing boats on the wharves of Provincetown elicits a similar feeling to the teeming hordes dwarfed by skyscrapers in Abraham Walkowitz's lithographs of of New York from early in the 20th century

the wood frame architecture of which LeBoutillier wrote a book about

One of these was a series of paintings of California Missions

"The Bridges from Brooklyn" by Joseph Pennell, Amer., (1857-1926) Oil 11-7/8 x 17-5/8Etching, 1921, W. 782, 9 7 8 x 7, printed on a sheet of antique simili japan laid paper, signed in pencil, ed. unknown, full margins with irregular left edge as printed on a sheet torn from an antique ledger, a fine impression of one of Pennell's most desirable New York subjects.