The Grolier Club Library (Sketch)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Club, New York City, on the evening of March 9, 1941 John Taylor Arms
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Saint Catherine's Belfry, Honfleur
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
; French Church Series No. 34]. Born in 1887 in Washington DC, John Taylor Arms studied at Princeton
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The Enchanted Doorway; Venezia
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
DC, John Taylor Arms studied at Princeton University, and ultimately earned a degree in architecture
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The Crown of Normandy
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on Japon paper, 13 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (337 x 171 mm); sheet 16 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches (410 x
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Somewhere in France
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Taylor Arms studied at Princeton University, and ultimately earned a degree in architecture at the
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Palazzo dell'Angelo
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Venice, 1900-1940, p. 116. [Fletcher 233] Born in 1887 in Washington DC, John Taylor Arms studied at
Drypoint, Etching
Bourges – The Cathedral of St. Étienne
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on watermarked handmade F J Head & Co cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 14 1/8 x 9 1/8
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Le Pont Notre Dame, Mende
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
An excellent impression from an edition of only three proofs. Etching on antique watermarked
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From the Ponte Vecchio, Florence
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
1887 in Washington DC, John Taylor Arms studied at Princeton University, and ultimately earned a degree
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Stanwick Churchyard
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 2 3/8 x 3/14 inches (61 x 83), full margins. Signed, dated and
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The Church of St. Francis and the Natizone; Cividale
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
."]. Born in 1887 in Washington DC, John Taylor Arms studied at Princeton University, and ultimately earned
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$1,000
H 9.75 in W 12.75 in
La Colegiata Toro (Romanesque Santa Maria la Mayor/Zamora province Spain)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Taylor Arms created this superb architectural image of La Colegiata in 1935 in an edition of
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Rouen; The Cathedral of Notre Dame from the South
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on F.J. Head & Co. watermarked cream laid paper, 8 1/8 x 7 5/8 (205 x 184 mm), full margins
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Street in Porto Maurizio
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique handmade laid paper, 9 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches (246 x 109 mm), full margins. Signed
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Sunlight on Stone; Caudebec-en-Caux
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
in 1931. With the John Taylor Arms ink stamp in black ink in the lower-center margin. [Fletcher 241
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Old Corner, Rouen
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 6 x 4 inches (153 x 102 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower
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Stokesay Castle
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on fine, light cream laid paper, 2 1/4 x 2 15/16 inches ( 58 x 75 mm), full margins. Signed
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Precious Stones; Église Notre Dame - Les Andelys
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
260 printed by David Strang for the Miniature Print Society, Kansas City, Mo. With the John Taylor
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Place Plumereau, Tours
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
An impression printed by the artist Etching on antique cream laid paper, 1 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches (49
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Chartres in Miniature
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on fine, laid antique Head & Co. paper with a partial watermark. 1/2 x 13/16 (13 x 21 mm
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Notre Dame de Paris
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb, dark impression of a well known scene by Arms. Etching with aquatint on watermarked
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Afterglow; Geddington, England.
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique Emberlin 1846 cream laid paper with a parial watermark of Britannia, or Seated
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Church of Saint Jean, Laigle, Orne
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on white laid paper with an "England" watermark, 3 x 1 3/4 inches (76 x 45 mm), full
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Thirteenth Century Belfry; Hôtel De Ville, Abbeville
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on buff wove J Whatman handmade paper with a partial watermark, 3 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches (89 x
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Wilby Church, Northhamptonshire, England
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
A fine proof impression on antique paper Etching on antique laid paper with a large heraldic
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The Church of St. Francis and the Natizone – Cividale
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 10 x 14 13/16 inches (254 x 377 mm), full margins. Signed in
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New York Skyline
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A superb impression in warm black ink, on cream, laid paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 2 3/4 inches); original brown paper hinges on the top sheet edge recto, in excellen...
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Sunlight on Stone; Caudebec-en-Caux
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique laid Japon paper, 14 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches ( 368 x 195 mm), full margins. Signed
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Rodez; The Tower of Notre Dame
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique wove Catalunya-Spain watermarked paper, 12 x 5 inches (305 x 127 mm), full
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Street in Porto Maurizio
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a partial watermark, 9 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches (246 x 109 mm
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Fiesole: An Ancient Tower
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches (201 x 130 mm), full margins. Edition of
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Shadows in Mexico
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on bluish-grey, antique laid paper, 5 x 3 5/8 inches (127 x 93 mm), signed, dated, and
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La Rue de Change, Tours
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 5 x 2 inches (127 x 52 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in
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Thirteenth Century Belfry; Hôtel De Ville, Abbeville
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on Japon paper, 3 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches (89 x 44 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil and
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Shadows of Venice
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and aquatint on antique laid paper, wide margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Edition of
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Fiesole, an Ancient Tower
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches (201 x 130 mm), full margins. Edition of
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Stanwick Churchyard
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 2 3/8 x 3/14 inches (61 x 83), full margins. Signed, dated and
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$300
H 3.32 in W 1.88 in
Precious Stones – South Transeptal Portal, Church of Notre Dame des Andelys
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper 3 5/16 x 1 7/8 inches (84 x 49 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and
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$250
H 7.01 in W 5.01 in
Jewelry Choir Stalls of the Cathedral of St Cecilia, Albi; The Reredos
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on cream wove paper, 1 3/4 x 5 inches (178x 127 mm), full margins. Signed
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Porta del Paradiso, Venezia
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 1930. 7 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches (190 x 970 mm), full margins. Signed and
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Stokesay Castle
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
The Minature Print Society of Kansas City, Mo. , 1942. Etching on cream colored Japon wove paper
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Chartres, The Magnificent
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on handmade cream laid paper, 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (890 x 108 mm), full margins. Signed
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Cathedral of Saint Cyr and Saint Julitta, Nevers
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 12 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (328 x 140 mm), full margins. Signed in
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$600
H 17.38 in W 8.63 in
Gloria, Saint Riquier; The Church of Saint Riquier; Gloria Ecclesiae Antiquae
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with an "England" watermark; 13 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (353 x 221
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Thirteenth Century Belfry; Hôtel De Ville, Abbeville
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique laid paper, 6 9/16 x 3 15/16 inches (167 x 100 mm), signed and dated in pencil
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La Tour D'Horloge, Dinan
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
margin, well outside of image area. [Fletcher 246]. This etching was awarded the Bronze Medal of Honor
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Cavendish Church
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on bluish-grey, thin laid paper, 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (242 x 140 mm), full margins. Signed
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Coutances
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on thin, bluish-green cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (233 x 120 mm), full margins
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$550
H 3.19 in W 1.57 in
Corbel on Gate House, Stokesay Castle, Shropshire Corbel
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 3 3/16 x 1 9/16 inches (81 x 41 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and
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Notre Dame du Val, Provins / Thibaut
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on bluish-grey wove paper, 8 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches (221 x 130 mm), full margins. Signed and
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Lescure, Une Tour Des Remparts
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique laid paper, 6 9/16 x 3 15/16 inches (167 x 100 mm), signed and dated in pencil
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Corbel on Gate House, Stokesay Castle, Shropshire
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 3 3/16 x 1 9 1/6 inches (81 x 41 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and
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San Marino (Sketch)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Ecthing in black ink on cream laid paper with a partial watermark, full margins. In excellent condition. A very scarce work from an edition of less than 20 impressions. Signed, date...
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John Taylor Arms was born in Washington, D.C., in 1887. Arms studied architecture at Princeton and MIT and later became the country’s finest etcher of his age. His renderings of European and American architectural subjects are not only beautiful, but they are unrivaled in their technical virtuosity and nuanced light. In a recent exhibit, the Cleveland Museum noted, Arms believed that art could be a tool for the spiritual and moral improvement of mankind and that Gothic cathedrals represented the most significant expression of man’s aspirations. He viewed printmaking as a vehicle for disseminating images of subjects that would uplift and inspire contemporary society. He served as President of the Society of American Etchers and as an ambassador for American printmakers and printmaking throughout the world.
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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