The Bay of the Thousand Girls 1916

"The Bay of the Thousand Girls," a 1916 lithograph by American artist Joseph Pennell (1857-1926), depicts a bustling factory setting. The scene is filled with figures, likely women working in a munitions factory during World War I, and rows of stacked shells, conveying the industrial scale of wartime production. Pennell's use of simple lines and hatching creates a sense of immediacy and realism, capturing the energy and intensity of this pivotal moment in history.