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National Gallery of Art

323 works

Lithograph of a steel gas works beside a canal with rowboats, trees and distant domed buildings.

Gas Works from the Canal, Berlin

Joseph Pennell, 1921

Printed page with German poem and a black-and-white woodcut of an angular city with towers and spires.

Verfluchung der Städte V (Curse Against the Cities V) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg…

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1912/1922

Woodcut of a dense hillside city with spires under stormy clouds, printed on a book page below the poem Die Stadt.

Die Stadt (The City) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1912/1922

Soft grey lithograph of a smoky industrial city with many factory chimneys and an arched viaduct in the foreground.

Munitions City, No.I

Joseph Pennell, 1916

Book page with poem Die Nebelstädte and a black-and-white woodcut of angular city buildings and railway tracks.

Die Nebelstädte (The Misty Cities) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1912/1922

Lithograph of a city street with tram tracks, tall brick buildings with fire escapes, and smoke rising toward a tall tower.

Down Sansom Street

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Lithograph of a city street lined with tall ornate skyscrapers, with a domed building and spire at the end of the vista.

Looking up Broad Street from Spruce Street

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Lithograph of a tree-lined city street with tall buildings, a tower, pedestrians, and streetcar tracks on cobblestones.

Girard Street

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Lithograph of a busy city street with a tall arched stone building, crowds, horse carts, and shop signs.

City Hall Square and Wanamaker Building

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Lithograph of a rocky headland rising from calm water, with small boats and billowing clouds above.

Entrance to the Canal from the Pacific

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Lithograph of Philadelphia City Hall tower and arcade with pedestrians on the street below, by Joseph Pennell.

The City Hall and Bridge across Market Street

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Black-and-white print of a deep canyon with dark cliffs, lit rock pinnacles, and clouds across the top.

Sunset Cities in the Canyon

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Pencil-style drawing of a busy river levee with steamboats, streetcars, carts and crowds, seen from an elevated bridge.

The Levee from Eads Bridge, St. Louis

Joseph Pennell, 1919

Lithograph of the Eads Bridge arch over a river, with city buildings and telegraph wires in the background.

Eads Bridge, St. Louis

Joseph Pennell, 1919

Monochrome print of a deep canyon with sunlit tiered rock formations and small figures on a cliff overlook at upper right.

The City under the Black Mountain

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Lithograph of a deep canyon with layered cliffs, clustered ruins on a ledge at left, and clouds above.

Road to the White City, No.I

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Stippled black and white print of a deep rocky canyon with pale cliffs, a jagged peak, and dark pine trees.

Road to the White City, No.II

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Lithograph of a crowded New York street with a tall spired tower rising through smoky clouds above rooftops.

From Fulton Street

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Grey lithograph of a city street with scaffolding, a crane, tall buildings and a classical column portico at right.

Rebuilding Broad Street

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Black and white drawing of a tall gantry crane over a canal with moored boats, a wooden dock and a water tower.

French Canal and American Cranes

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Black and white lithograph of a steel arch bridge over a rocky river gorge, with a trolley and figures on the deck.

The Steel Bridge

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Black and white lithograph of a canal lined with tall poplars and trees, with houses and factory chimneys in the distance.

The Canal at Blanzy, France

Joseph Pennell, 1911

Pencil-style lithograph of an arched bridge over a river with boats, colonnaded buildings, ornate lamp posts and walking figu

Bridge at Charlottenburg

Joseph Pennell, 1921