The City of Panama from the Tivoli Hotel
Joseph Pennell American
Joseph Bucklin Bishop American
Not on view
Pennell, a Philadelphia-born Quaker, spent the first two decades of his career abroad, living primarily in London, where he became a close associate of Whistler. This lithograph was made after the artist toured Panama and looked at the engineering works in progress for the Panama Canal. Of this subject, he wrote, "From the wing of the Government hotel in which I stayed I looked out over the city of Panama to the Pacific. If this city were in Spain, or if even a decent description of it were in an European guide-book, the hoardes of Americans who go to the Canal would rave over it. As it is, not many of them (not being told), ever see it, though there are few towns in Europe with more character."
