Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 8

James Penney
James Penney, New York From Central Park

19340

About the Item

James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints. Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. The New-York Historical Society and the Library of Congress both have collections of his work. Signed, titled, and dated, in ink on the reverse.
  • Creator:
    James Penney (1910 - 1982, American)
  • Creation Year:
    19340
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Shows extremely well. Minor buckling or creasing noticeable on the the reverse. Please see image of entire back of sheet.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1410210968272
More From This SellerView All
  • Norman Barr, Delancey Street (NYC)
    By Norman Barr
    Located in New York, NY
    Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market. In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    India Ink, Crayon

  • Paul Gattuso, (Italian Street Scene - Light)
    By Paul Gattuso.
    Located in New York, NY
    Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address. Gattus...
    Category

    1930s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Monotype

  • Norman Barr, Coney Island (large), 1940
    By Norman Barr
    Located in New York, NY
    Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market. In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Crayon, India Ink

  • Norman Barr, Coney Island (New York City)
    By Norman Barr
    Located in New York, NY
    An idyllic scene at New York City's favorite beach, Coney Island. Before the year was over Barr was in the Army. It is ink and litho-crayon. Barr liked that medium because it didn't ...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Mixed Media

  • Paul Gattuso, (Italian Street Scene)
    By Paul Gattuso.
    Located in New York, NY
    Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address. Gattus...
    Category

    1930s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Monotype

  • Alfred Bendiner, Avalon (New Jersey)
    By Alfred Bendiner
    Located in New York, NY
    Apparently Bendiner never went a day without drawing. He was amazing! From Bendiner's Philadelphia the New Jersey beaches were an easy drive. Avalon is st...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Watercolor

You May Also Like
  • "Street Fair” William Glackens, Ashcan School, Street Scene, Carnival, Boxing
    By William Glackens
    Located in New York, NY
    William Glackens Street Fair, circa 1905 Pencil, ink and gouache on paper 10 x 14 inches Provenance: The artist Kraushaar Galleries, New York Estate ...
    Category

    Early 1900s Ashcan School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Gouache, Pencil, Paper, Ink

  • Battle Scene, Spanish American War
    By Francis Luis Mora
    Located in Greenwich, CT
    Francis Luis Mora was considered one of America's finest "sketchers". A collection of his Sketchbooks are at the Smithsonian and this work came out of one in the early 1990's from t...
    Category

    1890s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Graphite

  • 1854 Funeral of R. Williams at Gyokusen-ji Temple, Shimoda, with Commodore Perry
    Located in Amsterdam, NL
    Wilhelm Heine (Dresden 30 January 1827-Löbnitz 5 October 1885) ‘Funeral of Robert Williams in the cemetery of the Temple Gyokusen-ji at Shimoda in April 1854’ With a sticker on the reverse of the frame by Coupil & Co. 1855 Watercolour on paper, H. 57 x W. 92 cm Depicted is the Bay of Shimoda with seven American ships including the two paddle-wheel warships USS Mississippi and Susquehanna. On the Gyokus- en-ji temple grounds on the right is the coffin in the middle with the remains of US marine Robert Williams, ready to be lowered into the grave. Looking on from the left are the Buddhist monks and Japanese officials who joined the first Christian funeral on Japanese soil. Around the grave are US marines, Commodore Perry...
    Category

    Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

  • Portrait of a Slave Ship: 'Le Negrito à l’ancre. Dans le port de la havanne'
    Located in Amsterdam, NL
    FRANÇOIS MATHURIN ADALBERT, BARON DE COURCY (1805-1839) 'Le Negrito à l’ancre. Dans le port de la havanne' Indistinctly signed lower left Titled on the mount Pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper, 24.8 x 34.6 cm Literature: The present watercolour will be illustrated in: - Prof. Manuel Garcia’s projected book on the disease and the slave trade provisionally titled “Fighting the Yellow Demon of Fever: The Struggle against Disease in the Illegal Slave Trade”. - Prof. Micael Zeuske’s forthcoming Global history of slave trade. Exhibited: Mexico City, 1998, Palacio Virreinal, El Barón de Courcy, illustrationes de un viaje, 1831-1833, no. 108 Note: Baron de Courcy was in the Caribbean in late 1832 and early 1833, following his tour of Mexico in 1832, on the last leg of his “Grand Voyage...
    Category

    Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Gouache, Pencil, Paper, Watercolor

  • Devotion in the Dessert near the pyramids of Gizeh, circa 1919
    By Marius Bauer
    Located in Amsterdam, NL
    Marius Bauer (1867-1932) ‘Devotie in de Woestijn’ (Devotion in the Dessert near the pyramids of Gizeh, circa 1919) Signed lower right and titled lower left Watercolour on paper, H...
    Category

    Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

    Materials

    Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil

  • Forest, Original Watercolor, Light, Trees, France
    Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
    Watercolor on Archival and Heavy paper - Original Watercolor, Light, Trees, France This is a watercolor inspired by a forest in France, the work is in very good condition and is sig...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Water...

    Materials

    Watercolor, Archival Paper

Recently Viewed

View All