Building a power house

Building a power house

Item Information

Title:
Building a power house
Title (alt.):
Niagara
Description:
"The purists and the theorists have made a great fuss about the destruction of the Falls and the vandals who have done it. Now the Falls, I believe, have not been lowered an inch, and as for power houses, they are most of them Greek temples, and placed just where the Greeks would have placed them. For once the Greek temple is right in American, and therefore the American purist and theorist doesn't like it - he would not have liked Greek temples had he been Greek. I did not draw the temples, but the temples being built, which was interesting. Below the bridge on the American side are older works, wondrous works, high on the cliffs, great overflows of water gushing from the rock. This lithograph is a proof that engineers design today for companies, not churches." Joseph Pennell, 1916.
Artist:
Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
Name on Item:
Jo Pennell
Date:
1910
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Lithographs
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Railroad bridges
Railroads
Cities & towns
Streets
Trees
Places:
New York > Niagara (county) > Niagara Falls
Extent:
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 54 x 35 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/pc28cb117
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné (lithographs).
Alternative title from item.
Wuerth 1931 (L): 177
Part of the "Niagara Falls" series.
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Wuerth, Louis A. "Catalogue of the lithographs of Joseph Pennell." Little, Brown and Company, 1931, Boston.
Notes (object):
Edition: 25 proofs.
Identifier:
18_15_000493
Barcode:
36666000208765