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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Harry Fenn
Harry Fenn was a prominent and highly prolific artist/illustrator whose images of landscape achieved great popularity in the latter half of the nineteenth century for their combination of fidelity to nature and sentiment. Reproduced primarily as wood or steel engravings through the mid 1880s and thereafter as photomechanical engravings or halftones, his works reached a wide public in books such as Snow-Bound (1868) and Picturesque America (1872-1874) and such popular magazines as Harper's Monthly, Century, and St. Nicholas. His renderings of both landscapes and architectural features were characterized by fluidity and variety of line--delicate as well as bold; dramatically high or low viewpoints; dynamic, often diagonal, compositions; and striking contrasts of light and dark. Joseph Pennell in Modern Illustration counted Fenn along with Thomas Moran and John Douglas Woodward "among the pioneers of American landscape illustration." Pennell, writing in his Pen and Ink Drawing, also considered that Fenn...
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