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The image displays a landscape with industrial elements. The horizon features buildings, smokestacks emitting smoke, a mound, and a turbulent sky with dynamic clouds. The art style includes bold brushstrokes and a monochromatic palette of blacks, grays, and white highlights. Additionally, there are distant mountains or hills, diagonal lines suggesting rainfall, and detailed ground texture leading towards the industrial scene.
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The image displays a landscape with industrial elements. The horizon features buildings, smokestacks emitting smoke, a mound, and a turbulent sky with dynamic clouds. The art style includes bold brushstrokes and a monochromatic palette of blacks, grays, and white highlights. Additionally, there are distant mountains or hills, diagonal lines suggesting rainfall, and detailed ground texture leading towards the industrial scene.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Anaconda, Montana

Joseph Pennell

Date
1915
Medium
lithograph in black on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 40.32 × 53.02 cm (15 7/8 × 20 7/8 in.) sheet: 47.31 × 62.55 cm (18 5/8 × 24 5/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.1349
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow, 1968)
Time span
1901 to 1925
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • lithograph
  • Mining
  • Industrial landscape
  • landscape
Provenance

Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

lower center in graphite: J Pennell; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Copper W. 408, Anaconda, Montana, 1915, 15 prfs

Marks

stamped center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]; stamped lower center verso in black ink: Surplus Duplicate Library of Congress

Watermarks

MBM (FRANCE)

NGA object ID 183104. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.