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French Church Series No. 10: Rocamadour

1927

John Taylor Arms

(American, 1887–1953)
Culture
America
Medium
graphite
Support
Paper mounted on board
Measurements
Sheet: 36.6 x 29.4 cm (14 7/16 x 11 9/16 in.); Image: 34.3 x 24.8 cm (13 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2010.713
Catalogue raisonné
drawing for etching Fletcher, 186
Copyright
Courtesy of John Taylor Arms/© Suzanne Arms Hawkins
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Description

This drawing of Rocamadour, a town in southwestern France situated in a gorge above a tributary of the Dordogne River, was executed on site. The church of Notre Dame, part of a complex of monastic buildings and pilgrimage churches, contains the venerated statue of a wooden Black Madonna reputed to have been carved by Saint Amadour.
Vertically oriented graphite on off-white paper depicts a hillside village climbing a rugged, rocky cliffside. Fine, precise lines delineate clusters of stone houses with peaked roofs and chimneys. Larger buildings integrate into the rock, culminating in a tall, thin spire at the summit. These dense architectural details occupy the upper-left, while the composition gradually thins, with lines merging into the vast, blank paper that dominates the bottom and right edges.

French Church Series No. 10: Rocamadour

1927

John Taylor Arms

(American, 1887–1953)
America

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