Description: The Signing of the Constitution Print (Limited Edition of 2500) Signed and numbered bottom right, Louis S. Glanzman (LXXXVII) - Note the number of the print may differ from the picture as I have a few copies of this piece. Location: Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA Print Size - 34.5 x 24.75 inches. The only print that I could locate online had an auction estimate of $600 to $800. The painting was commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution for the Bicentennial of the US Constitution in 1987 and donated to Independence National Historical Park by the Friends of Independence National Historical Park. The painting was until recently on long term exhibit in the West Wing of Independence Hall in Philadelphia PA. Today, the painting is displayed in the headquarters building of Independence National Historical Park, a unit of the US National Park Service. Commissioned by Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey State Societies Daughters of the American Revolution Independence National Historical Park Collection, 1987. Louis S. Glanzman was born in 1922 in rural Virginia. Glanzman is best known for his portraits, including entries in U.S. Air Force magazines, Readers Digest, The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, and Life Magazine. He created the image “Signing of the Constitution” as part of a series of historical covers for Time Magazine that began with bicentennial cover portraits of Washington and Jefferson. There are several unique qualities to the Glanzman painting. Gone are covered windows that give a secretive character to the proceedings. In fact there are no windows in the painting, so we don’t have to deal with the issue of closed and open windows. Gone are Christy‘s flags the chandelier is still there and the Rising Sun chair is still visible and the license that other artists took with decoration, bunting, and “accessories.” This is a stark and serious, but not a grim and pessimistic, portrayal of the Constitutional Convention room. There is nothing on the walls, but there are several delegates working at tables with papers and pens thus emphasizing the role of the state delegations and the deliberative process. Recent historical research suggests that the Glanzman interpretation is the most historically accurate portrayal: the color of the walls and the features of the signers are authentic. Glanzman, like Christy, also disguised a delegate. In Glanzman’s case it is Jacob Broom from Delaware who is signing the Constitution with his back turned to the viewer because Glanzman didn’t believe there was an official portrait of Broom! Again, like Christy, he included Jackson to make a total of 40 people in the painting. But, unlike Christy, Glanzman has added the three non-signers: Gerry, Mason, and Randolph for a grand total of 43 present on the last day of the Convention. Washington is still at the center of the portrayal and he is still the tallest of them all, but there is nothing predominantly Washingtonian or exclusively Roman about this portrait. The Rising Sun chair is there, but it is not overpowering. There are no halos, but there’s lots of light.
Price: 180 USD
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Artist: Louis S. Glanzman
Signed By: Louis S. Glanzman
Image Orientation: Landscape
Signed: No
Size: Large
Title: "The Signing of the Constitution"
Material: Paper
Original/Licensed Reprint: Licensed Reprint
Subject: Famous Paintings/Painters, American History, Founding Fathers, George Washington, American Government, American Independence, The Signing of the Constitution
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1987
Theme: Americana, Art, History, The United States
Features: Made in the USA
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
