Gothic Glory, Sens Cathedral (Sens: Cathédrale de Saint Etienne or Sens North Portal)
Primary
John Taylor Arms
(Washington, D.C., 1887–New York, New York, 1953)
Assisted printer
Peter Platt
Printer
Frederick Reynolds
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1929
MediumEtching
DimensionsAdditional Dimension: 15 3/16 × 9 1/8 in. (38.5 × 23.2 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Ian Kennedy, 2003.42
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2003.42
On View
Not on viewBeginning in the nineteenth century, amid scholarly and popular enthusiasm for medieval art, Gothic cathedrals emerged as objects of particular reverence for many modern artists, who admired them for their synthesis of technical and spiritual ambitions. Originally trained as an architect, the self-taught etcher John Taylor Arms made what he termed “pilgrimages” across Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, depicting the Gothic cathedrals which he regarded as humanity’s greatest architectural achievements.
Exhibitions
John Taylor Arms
1937
