George Plowman

Christian Science Church, Boston

George Plowman's Christian Science Church, Boston is one of his largest and most impressive architectural and landscape renderings. This monumental etching was actually commissioned by the Christian Science Church in 1915. This impression is printed upon fine vellum-like paper and with large, full margins as published in Boston in an edition of one hundred and fifty impressions in 1915. Christian Science Church, Boston is signed in pencil by the American artist, George Taylor Plowman under the plate-mark. The plate was destroyed after the edition was published.

Original Etching and Drypoint Engraving by the American artist, George Taylor Plowman 'George Plowman'.

Christian Science Church, Boston

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George Taylor Plowman 'George Plowman' (Le Sueur, MN, 1869 - Cambridge, MA, 1932)
#	Image	Title & Engraver	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		Christian Science Church, Boston by George Plowman	Original Etching and Drypoint Engraving	1915	Signed in pencil by George Taylor Plowman under the plate-mark. Limited edition of one hundred and fifty impressions.
02.-		Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market by George Plowman	Original Etching	c. 1925	Signed in pencil by George Taylor Plowman and signed with his monogramme within the plate. Limited edition of 25 TO 50 impressions.
03.-		King's Chapel by George Plowman	Original Etching	1930	Signed in pencil by George Taylor Plowman and signed with his monogramme within the plate. Limited edition of twenty-five to fifty impressions.	Sold

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Title:	Christian Science Church, Boston
Artist:	Plowman, George Taylor 'George Plowman' (Le Sueur, MN, 1869 - Cambridge, MA, 1932)
Date:	1915
Medium:	Original Etching and Drypoint Engraving
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, Plowman received 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.
	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. " *
	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.
	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. Christian Science Church, Boston is one of his largest and most impressive architectural renderings. This monumental etching was actually commissioned by the Christian Science Church in 1915. After the edition of 150 signed impressions was published the plate was then destroyed.
Raisonne:	W. H. Downes, "Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings and Drypoints of George Taylor Plowman", The Print Connoisseur, Truesdell, New York, 1921, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 43 - 50.
	Catalogue # 65, First and Only State as Published in the Limited Edition of 150 Signed Impressions. The Plate was then Destroyed.
Reference:	* William Howe Downes, "George T. Plowman's Etchings", The Print Connoisseur, Truesdell, New York, 1921, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 38 - 40.
Edition:	Limited edition of one hundred and fifty impressions.
Size:	18 X 24 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed upon fine vellum-like paper and with large, full margins as published in Boston in 1915. Signed in pencil by the artist under the plate-mark. A rich and velvety impression and in excellent condition throughout. Christian Science Church, Boston represents one of the largest and greatest works of original architectural art from the hand of George Taylor Plowman.
Subject:	George Taylor Plowman, George Plowman, Christian Science Church, Boston, American art.
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