Plumed Serpent, Chichén Itzá
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Wilby Church Northamptonshire
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Grim Orvieto
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Rodez (The Tower of Notre Dame)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Umbrian Street; An Assisi Street
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Ceignac (Aveyron)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Stanwick
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Rio del Santi Apostoli, Venice.
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Plano, TX
Arms developed a successful career as a graphic artist in the 1920s and 1930s, specializing in series of etchings of Gothic churches and cathedrals in France and Italy.
Etching
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Racamadour (French Church Series #10) — Lyrical Realism
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Inspired to capture the romantic ambiance and spiritual grace of Gothic architecture, Arms developed a plan to represent in etching all the major Gothic cathedrals of Europe.
Etching
Abbeville; St. Vulfran
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Etching
Limoges (French Church Series #32)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Inspired to capture the romantic ambiance and spiritual grace of Gothic architecture, Arms developed a plan to represent in etching all the major Gothic cathedrals of Europe.
Etching
Palazzo dell'Angelo
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Drypoint, Etching
The Enchanted Doorway; Venezia
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Saint Catherine's Belfry, Honfleur
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Somewhere in France
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
From the Ponte Vecchio, Florence
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
The Church of St. Francis and the Natizone; Cividale
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etchi...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
The Brook
Located in North Clarendon, VT
While primarily recognized as a leading architect of Gothic Revival cathedrals, his artistic contributions include intricate carvings, etchings, and hand-painted illustrations of rel...
Oil
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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