Title: |
Faneuil Hall & Quincy Market |
Artist: |
Plowman, George Taylor 'George Plowman' (Le Sueur, MN, 1869 - Cambridge, MA, 1932) |
Date: |
c. 1925 |
Medium: |
Original Etching |
Note: |
George Taylor Plowman 'George Plowman': One of America's best known etchers
of the early twentieth century, George Plowman actually spent much of
his career as an architect. Upon graduating from the University of Minnesota
(1892), George Plowman assisted D. H. Burnham with constructing many buildings
for the World's Fair in Chicago. During the following years, George Taylor Plowman received
many commissions for building both in France and the United States. From
1904 to 1909 he acted as superintendent of architecture for the University
of California, at Berkeley. |
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It was not until he was forty-two years of age that George Taylor Plowman
took up etching.
"He went back to Europe in 1911, and systematically visited,
in Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria and France, all the cities where
the best work of the greatest etchers was to be found, studying the
practice of the masters, and more especially, of course, that of Rembrandt,
Whistler, Meryon and Haden. His first etched plate was made in Paris
in the fall of 1911. He then became a student of etching in the Engraving
School of the Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London, under
the eminent practician, Sir Frank Short, remaining there from 1912
to 1914. He was the first American to enter that school, and the only
American pupil of Sir Frank Short. An important part of his training,
however, and one upon which he lays great stress, was his practice
of making innumerable sketches from nature in hard lead-pencil. "
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George Plowman was a full member of the New York Society
of Etchers, the Salmagundi Club, the Chicago Society of Etchers, the Print
Makers' Society of California and the Boston Society of Etchers. His etchings
are included in the collections of such major international galleries
as the British Museum, the Luxembourg Museum, the National Academy, Washington,
the South Kensington Museum, London, the Library of Congress and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York. |
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George Taylor Plowman was most influential for his architectural etchings,
particularly his scenes in Paris, London, New York and Boston. During
his career he made slightly under one hundred and fifty etchings. All
his etchings, including this original example, were published in editions
of between twenty-five and fifty impressions. |
Edition: |
Limited edition of 25 TO 50 impressions. |
Reference: |
* William Howe Downes, "George T. Plowman's
Etchings", The Print Connoisseur, Truesdell, New York, 1921, Vol.
2, No. 1, pp. 38 - 40. |
Size: |
8 3/4 X 11 3/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
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Price: $385.00 US |
Condition: |
Printed upon fine, hand-made, laid paper bearing the 'Whatman'
watermark and with full margins as published around 1925. Signed with
the artist's monogramme within the plate (lower right corner) and signed
in pencil along the lower margin. Faneuil Hall & Quincy Market is a finely
printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. |
Subject: |
George Taylor Plowman, George Plowman, Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market,
Boston, American. |
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