[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Remembrance of Joseph Pennell

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “The Pennells”

By Edward Larocque Tinker.
Privately printed by the author in 1951.

DISCUSSION: Some informal anecdotes of episodes in the lives of the artist
and his wife by a friend who had known them since 1922.

Joseph Pennell [1857-1926] was an American artist and author. "Born in
Philadelphia, and first studied there, but like his compatriot and friend,
James McNeill Whistler, he afterwards went to Europe and made his home in
London. He produced numerous books (many of them in collaboration with his
wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell), but his chief distinction is as an
original etcher and lithographer, and notably as an illustrator. Their
close acquaintance with Whistler led the Pennells to undertake a biography
of that artist in 1906, and, after some litigation with his executrix on
the right to use his letters, the book was published in 1908. He taught at
Slade School of Art. He won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle
(1900), and 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Pennell did the poster for
the fourth Liberty Loans campaign of 1918. It showed the entrance to the
New York City harbor under aerial and naval bombardment, with New York in
flames and the Statue of Liberty partly destroyed, her head and her torch
blown off. He taught at the Art Students League of New York."

His friend, and the author of this booklet, Edward Larocque Tinker
(1881-1968) held Ph.D.’s in literature from the University of Paris and
the University of Madrid, and devoted a significant portion of his life to
exploring Hispanic culture in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and the
United States. He founded The Tinker Foundation, which funds the Tinker
Visiting Professorships at Columbia University, the University of Texas,
the University of Wisconsin, Stanford University, and the University of
Chicago. The Tinker Library is at the University of Texas, Austin.

DESCRIPTION: Softcover. 6"x9", 28 pages, 5 black & white illustrations.

CONDITION NOTES: Minor soil, nibbling to the bottom corner of the first
several pages.

PRICE: $60 -

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