Northern Italy, Como, Garda, Lugano Maggiore cm1368

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Northern Italy, Como, Garda, Lugano cm1368 Oriental Rug Review/Asian Trade is pleased to offer an original article from Century Magazine: "Italy's Garden of Eden," by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. This is an original article from Century Magazine, Vol. LXII, No. 6, Oct., 1901, 15 pp. (loose), 51 Illustration, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2"About the Subject and/or Author Joseph Pennell (July 4, 1857 – April 23, 1926) was an American artist and author. Pennell was born in Philadelphia, and first studied t, 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. Pennell visited San Francisco in March of 1912 w he undertook a series of so-called "municipal subjects". These were exhibited in December 1912 at "the prestigious gallery of Vickery, Atkins & Torrey" , according to Mary Millman and Dave Bohn, authors of The Master of Line: John W. Winkler, American read more

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