The Woolworth Building - JOSEPH PENNELL

Medium: etchhing

JOSEPH PENNELL
American, (1857-1926)

Etchhing, 1915, Wuerth 675, edition probably 100 proofs. 11 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is generally fine. (There's a trace of an old adhesive along the outer edges of the sheet, verso, on both sides, and a few specks of foxing on the verso.) Designed by Cass Gilbert, the Woolworth Building was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1929. It's a major contribution to America's "skyscraper style," gracefully expressing in its neo-Gothicism the soaring verticality of steel-frame construction.      $1,000

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