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Art by the legendary and delightful Norwegian artist, Fred Lammers. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.
For a clear overview of who we are and how this whole project came to be, please feel free to read the ABOUT section of this Etsy store. Here is a handy link...
https://www.etsy.com/shop/PopeFrancisSouvenirs/about
Print size 14 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 14 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.
With Pope Francis' almost shockingly beautiful, simple and disarming focus on love as his opening move in seemingly everything, it is more than appropriate for us to ask William Penn to let him borrow the top of the tower for the big mass.
For those of you that don't know about Penn and why Philadelphia was named Philadelphia, and what 'The Holy Experiment' was, then know you, all of you, that Pope Francis certainly does, and recognizes a kindred spirit.
When my friend Fred Lammers, the Oslo based artist who is working with us, came up with this one, it was after several months of discussing it and setting it aside, and then doing all that again. Suddenly, this arrived via the internet as a rough draft and I whooped with joy! He'd captured it all in one simple graphic.
A fabulous example about why I'm crazy for his art!
NOTE... the other prints are shown for reference, and are available elsewhere on our Etsy page. Enjoy!
FYI... Philadelphia's City Hall has been the world's tallest masonry building since the 1953 collapse of the pinnacle of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin.
...and now you know!
- Handmade item
- Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
- Made to order
- Only ships within United States.
SHIPPING
All prints are shipped in a sturdy mailing tube for $8, which covers postage, tube and S & H.
BUYING MORE THAN ONE PRINT? Add a second print or any number thereafter of this or any other prints in our catalog and shipping is still just $8, total!!!
International shipping is available and reasonable. Please contact us for details.
A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.
Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps. The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands. That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here. See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”
There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.
There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.
Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road. I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle! So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.
This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.
