Lower Falls, Yosemite
Primary
Joseph Pennell
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1857–Brooklyn, New York, 1926)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1912
MediumLithograph
DimensionsSheet: 24 3/4 × 18 7/8 in. (62.9 × 48 cm)
Image: 22 3/8 × 16 15/16 in. (56.8 × 43.1 cm)
Image: 22 3/8 × 16 15/16 in. (56.8 × 43.1 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Susan Garwood in memory of Sue Ann Reagan, 2004.104
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2004.104
On View
Not on viewPennell covered this unusually large lithograph with large, expressive markings. Using the side of the crayon he showed the lines of the rocks. A shock of white through the center disperses into the foreground, which is of lighter tone and activated by scratches of white. Two pairs of trees balance the composition without making it artificially symmetrical.
Exhibitions
![Spirit of the Maguey, or Las tres caídas [The Three Falls]](/internal/media/dispatcher/6270/thumbnail)
![La Dame à la grande collerette et à la coiffe retombant en arrière [Lady with a large Ruffle and Hairpiece that Falls Down the Back], from La Noblesse [The Nobility]](/internal/media/dispatcher/16213/thumbnail)