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Santa Maria Major
193520th century
8 in. x 5 3/8 in. (20.32 cm x 13.65 cm)
John Taylor Arms, American, (1887–1953)
Object Type:
Prints
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
Etching on paper
Credit Line:
via American College Society of Print Collectors (1930-42)
Accession Number:
1997.050
John Taylor Arms was one of the foremost etchers of the early twentieth century. An architect by training, Arms taught himself to etch using Maxime Lalanne’s guide, "Traite de la gravure a l’eau-forte," and the etching kit presented as a Christmas gift by his wife. Arms initially created images of New York and then turned to Europe for inspiration. Spain was seen as an exceptionally colorful foreign country with a venerable past. Santa Maria Major, depicting a church in Ronda in the south of Spain, embodies Arms’s meticulous love of detail. Santa Maria Major was constructed in a version of the Gothic style, which Arms highlights with the straight ahead viewpoint emphasizing the elaborate clock tower, the most Gothic feature of the building.
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20th Century,
21st Century,
American*,
Contemporary*,
etching (printing process)*,
etchings (prints)*,
paper (fiber product)*,
prints (visual works)*
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- American - Refers to the context of or associated specifically with the modern political entity of the United States of America.
- Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
- etching (printing process) - Intaglio process in which the design is worked into an acid-resistant substance coating the metal printing plate; the plate is then exposed to acid, which etches the plate where the metal is exposed, to create lines and dark areas. For the single step of exposing the plate to acid, use "biting."
- etchings (prints) - Prints made from an etched printing plate, which is a metal plate on which a design is made by coating the plate with an acid-resistant substance, creating a design in the coating, and then exposing the plate to acid, which etches the plate where the metal is exposed. For designs incised directly into a copper plate using a burin or graver, use "engravings (prints)."
- paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
- prints (visual works) - Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use just "prints." With regard to photographs, see "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."
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