PEABODY BOOKSHOP BALTIMORE; original etching

SWANN, JR, Don. 8-1/2 x1-1/2 in, #37 of 300 cipies, signed in pencil by the artist. Matted but not framed. In 1933 Siegfried Weisberger converted part of his Peabody Bookstore in Baltimore into a beer stube. It flourished till 1954. It reopened in 1957 and finally closed in 1986. Don Swann, Sr. (1889-1954) was an American printmaker. He was born in Fernandina, Florida and raised in Baltimore, where he attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is known for detailed prints of colonial and Neo-classical American architecture.Don Swann, Jr. (1911-1998) studied printmaking with his father, attended the Maryland Institute, Johns Hopkins Univesity, and was a graduate of Princeton University. After his father died, he continued publishing and signing his father's name to ensure etchings were printed from his father's original plates. He later taught etching and continued the Etchcrafters Art Guild started by his father. (Inventory #: 59942)