Assembly church / Prentiss Taylor. – Vintage Wall Art
![Assembly church / Prentiss Taylor., [1936] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a3/a3c0f867fbee-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Assembly church / Prentiss Taylor. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Assembly church / Prentiss Taylor.
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Taylor's lithograph shows a congregation gathered in a plain interior, with a stove that signals how modest a church like this one would have been in Washington, D.C. Its title, *Assembly Church*, and its subject, African American religious life in the city, place it among the Depression-era Realist prints that recorded ordinary neighborhood routines rather than monuments or grand events. Taylor's use of lithography, a medium suited to close tonal shading, lets the viewer study faces, posture, and the worn furnishings, which make the image a useful document of the period as well as a work of art.
| Created / published | [1936] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 24.2 x 33.6 cm. (image), 30.4 x 45.7 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1930-1940. |
| Notes | On stone: PT XLVIII. Signed and titled in pencil. Copyright by Estate of Prentiss Taylor. Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited in: Life of the people: Realist prints and drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Library of Congress, 1999. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:015.1448 |
| Subjects | African Americans--Spiritual life--Washington (D.C.)--1930-1940. Religious services--Washington (D.C.)--1930-1940. Stoves--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,682 × 3,821 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220150 |
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