24 Facts About Joseph Pennell

Joseph Pennell was an American draftsman, etcher, lithographer, and illustrator for books and magazines.

Joseph Pennell was married to author Elizabeth Robins, and he was a writer.

Joseph Pennell was raised by his Quaker parents, Larkin Pennell and Rebecca A Barton.

Joseph Pennell spent much of the time drawing, a skill not praised in his school.

Joseph Pennell's talents lay in graphic arts, rather than painting, and his abrupt personality contributed to difficulties during his years at the academy.

In 1880, Joseph Pennell was involved in the violent expulsion of African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner, a fellow student, from the academy.

Tanner had suffered bullying at the academy since his entry earlier that year, which culminated when a group of students including Joseph Pennell seized Tanner and his easel and dragged them out onto Broad Street.

Joseph Pennell won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle, and 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Joseph Pennell taught at the Art Students League of New York.

Joseph Pennell's Pictures of the Wonders of Work is a 1915 publication featuring 52 of Pennell's images, from around the world over three decades, with an introduction by the artist and detailed biographical work notes.

Joseph Pennell's distinction is as a highly talented original etcher and lithographer and illustrator, a writer, influential lecturer and critic.

Joseph Pennell offended many, but knew everybody, including the most talented.

Joseph Pennell worked in New Orleans as a book illustrator, and made sketches and watercolours of the Bethlehem Steel works, just north of his native Philadelphia.

That same year Joseph Pennell produced a series of evocative illustrations of heavy industry in Northern England, capturing Sheffield 'Steel City' as the world renowned centre of steel production, with all the shadowing heavy pollution that came with it.

Joseph Pennell was elected a committee member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers and his growing renown as a graphic artist won commissions for book illustration.

That same year Joseph Pennell traveled to Panama to create lithographs of the Panama Canal, which was still under construction.

Joseph Pennell returned to England from the aborted French assignment, then onto America with wife Elizabeth.

In 1925, Joseph Pennell published The Adventures of an Illustrator, now available as a free e-book: Joseph Pennell was working as a teacher at the Art Students League up until a week before his death.

Joseph Pennell contracted influenza, which developed into pneumonia, and died at home in the Hotel Margaret, Brooklyn Heights on April 23,1926.

The doctor thought it unwise, but I have always regretted that Mr Joseph Pennell was deprived of this last pleasure.

Joseph Pennell produced other books, many of them in collaboration with his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell.

Joseph Pennell designed the poster for the fourth Liberty Loans campaign of 1918.

In 1880, Joseph Pennell created Little Wakefield, an etching of the Little Wakefield estate.

Joseph Pennell; married Elizabeth Robins Joseph Pennell, a writer and fellow Philadelphian, on June 4,1884.