Blair Tower from Laughton
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drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 16.2 × 21 cm (6 3/8 × 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 26.1 × 31.1 cm (10 1/4 × 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7428
Art Historical Context
Louis Conrad Rosenberg's *Blair Tower from Laughton* (1941) captures the imposing silhouette of Blair Tower as viewed from the village of Laughton in England, rendered with the meticulous precision characteristic of Rosenberg's architectural prints. Born in 1890, Rosenberg was a American etcher and drypoint artist who traveled extensively across Europe, documenting historic structures with a keen eye for texture and form. Created amid the uncertainties of World War II, this work reflects his lifelong passion for preserving vanishing architectural heritage through intimate, on-the-spot sketches...
About the Artist
Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Louis Conrad Rosenberg (1890–1983), born in Portland, Oregon, to Charles and Hannah Rosenberg, emerged as one of America's foremost architectural etchers, blending his training as an architect with masterful printmaking. A precocious draftsman from childhood, he apprenticed under T. Chapell Brown in Portland starting at age sixteen in 1906, advancing to draftsman under mentor Ellis Fuller Lawrence...