John Taylor Arms Art
American, 1887-1953
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.
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Artist: John Taylor Arms
LIGHT AND SHADE TAXCO - J. T. Arms Mexican Masterpiece with Striking Detail
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOHN TAYLOR ARMS (1887 – 1953)
LIGHT AND SHADE TAXCO, 1946 (F. 394: (#2 from the Mexican series.)
Etching and aquatint signed and dated in pencil. Image 10 ½ x 13 5/8, sheet 14 1/...
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1940s American Realist John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching
The Gargoyle and His Quarry
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gargoyle and His Quarry, Notre Dame. 1920. Etching.Fletcher 90. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 9 1/16). Gargoyle series #1. Edition 75. A rich impression printed on 'FJHead&Co' c...
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1920s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Drypoint, Etching
$2,750 Sale Price
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The Gothic Spirit
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
The Gothic Spirit (also called A Gargoyle, A Gothic Spirit). 1922. Etching and stipple. Fletcher 120. 11 5/8 x 7 (sheet 15 1/4 x 11 1/4). Gargoyle Series #8. Edition 130. Illustrated...
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1920s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Drypoint, Etching
$2,500 Sale Price
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'Downtown, New York' — 1920s Modernism
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Taylor Arms, 'Downtown, New York', etching with aquatint, 1921, edition 75, Fletcher 108. Signed, dated, and numbered 14/75 in pencil.
A superb, finely nuanced impression, in d...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching
Somewhere in France
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a partial watermark (likely Arches), 12 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (308 x 156 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in the lower right margin...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Laid Paper, Handmade Paper, Etching
The Enchanted Doorway; Venezia
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on antique cream laid paper, 12 3/8 x 6 9/16 inches (315 x 167 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "Edition 100" in pencil, lower margin. In very goo...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Rio del Santi Apostoli, Venice.
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
Rio del Santi Apostoli, Venice. 1930. Etching. Fletcher catalog 22 state .ii. 8 x 6 (sheet 11 x 7 3/16). Italian series #4. Illustrated: Dorothy Noyes Arms, Hill Towns and Cities of...
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1920s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
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Guardians of the Spire; Amiens Cathedral Number 2
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Guardians of the Spire; Amiens Cathedral Number 2
New York: 1937. Etching and drypoint on watermarked F.J. Head cream-colored, antique laid paper, 6 3/4 ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Drypoint, Etching
A Hong Kong Canal Boat
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on watermarked, laid Arches paper, 8 1/16 x 5 9/16 inches (206 x 142 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 22/40 in pencil,...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Watercolor, Aquatint
Out of My Window. (Vista; My Own; De Ma Fenêtre)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
Out of My Window. (Vista; My Own; De Ma Fenêtre). 1916. Etching. Fletcher 4, Library of Congress 254. 7 x 5 9/16 (sheet 9 3/8 x 9 1/2). Edition 75. Good condition apart from two re...
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20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching
$950 Sale Price
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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 handmade F.J. Head & Co. laid paper, 12 3/8 x 13 15/16 inches (315 x 354 mm), full marg...
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1920s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
LE PENSEUR DE NOTRE DAME
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Portland, ME
Arms, John Taylor. LE PENSEUR DE NOTRE DAME. F.136. Etching, 1923. 1st State, edition of 150. 12 5/8 x 10 1/8 inches; 322 x 252 mm. Signed in pencil. In exc...
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1920s John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching
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 pencil, lower margin. Laid down to non-archival board, general age tone and some ma...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Laid Paper, Handmade Paper, Etching
Dorothy and John Taylor Arms M.D. MCMXXV
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper 5 7/8 x 3 3/8 inches (150 x 86 mm). Signed and dated in pencil in the lower margin. First state (of 2), before the removal of the inscription in the lowe...
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1920s John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
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 153. It is #12 in his Spanish Churches series and is referenced as Fletcher #284.
One of the most characteristic examples of transitional Romanesque architecture in Spain, the church of Santa María la Mayor is inspired by the Cathedral of Zamora, in turn inspired by the Old Cathedral of Salamanca. The tower-dome is usually listed as one of the four most typical in León together with those in the cathedrals of Salamanca, Plasencia and Zamora.
The church was begun around 1170, and was finished in the mid-13th century. Two different directors of the work have been identified, according to the different types of stone used (limestone in the old sections, sandstone in the most recent ones), and by the barrel vaults...
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1930s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching
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. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Illustrated in Dorothy Noyes Arms, Chur...
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1920s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Laid Paper, Etching
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 inscribed "Edition 100" in pencil, lower margin. In very good condition with minor s...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching, Laid Paper
Vintage Etching - Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Chapel of St. Michel, 1928
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Etching - Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Chapel of St. Michel, 1928
Vintage black and white etching of the Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Chapel of St. Michel, 1928 by Joh...
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1920s American Impressionist John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching, Laid Paper
Stone Tapestry, San Isidoro, Leon
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and dated in pencil, inscribed " Ed 100 I." In excellent condition, except for tape remains at upper margin corners on verso. Also called South Portal of The Collegiate Church...
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1930s John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching
$175 Sale Price
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Stanwick
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb impression of a scarce proof on rare paper.
Etching on blue laid watermarked "Hand Made" paper, 7 3/8 x 3/14 inches (188 x 83 mm); sheet 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (292 x 209 mm...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Grim Orvieto
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on watermarked FJ Head cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 11 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches (283 x 223 mm); sheet 14 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (374 x 292 mm), full margins. Signed and dated ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Cathedral de Saint Julien le Mans
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 9 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (232 x 248 mm); sheet 12 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches (307 x 323 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
SHADOWS OF VENICE - IL PONTE DI RIALTO, VENEZIA.
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Portland, ME
Arms, John Taylor (American 1887-1953). SHADOWS OF VENICE - IL PONTE DI RIALTO, VENEZIA. Etching, 1930. Edition of 140 + 14 Artist's Proofs. 10 x 12 inches (Plate), 11 3/8 x 157/8 in...
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1930s John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching
Umbrian Street; An Assisi Street
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid watermarked FJ Head paper with a deckle edge, 10 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches (262 x 137 mm); sheet 18 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (457 x 260 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, d...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Ceignac (Aveyron)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a deckle edge and an unidentified round watermark with an arm holding a torch, 3 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (89 x 144 mm); sheet 5 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Wilby Church Northamptonshire
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid antique J Whatman paper with a watermark, 4 1/2 x 2 3/8 inches (109 x 61 mm); sheet 8 1/2 x 6 1/8 inches (216 x 153 mm), full margins. A proof impression from t...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Chartres; Cathedral of Notre Dame from the River
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb impression on Japon paper, one of only three proofs.
Etching on handmade Japon paper with a deckle edge, 13 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches (333 x 252 mm); sheet 18 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
Église de Brou
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on delicate, fibrous Japon paper with a deckle edge, 8 7/8 x 4 1/8 (227 x 105 mm); sheet 12 x 7 7/8 inches (304 x 100 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in the low...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
La Bella Venezia
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
(New York: John Taylor Arms, 1930)
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a fancy "G" watermark, 7 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches (182 x 442 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Ed. 70" in pencil, lower margin. From a total edirion of 81 plus 5 trial proofs. Printed by Henry E. Carling. Number 18 from the Italian Series. A superb impression of this scarce print, with all of the subtleties and details of the reflections in the water printing clearly. [Fletcher 232]
[Illustrated: Page 192, Arms, Dorothy Noyes, "Hilltowns and Cities of Northern Italy"].
Along with his constant companion and wife, Dorothy Noyes, Arms spent decades exploring and documenting gothic structures throughout Europe. Noyes, an accomplished travel writer, had gifted Arms an etching set...
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1930s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching
Guardians of the Spire (Amiens Cathedral Number 2)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
Guardians of the Spire (Amiens Cathedral Number 2). 1921. Etching. Fletcher 102. 6 3/4 x 9 7/8 (sheet 8 7/8 x 13 3/4). Gargoyle Series #4. Edition 75. Illustrated: Dorothy Noyes Arms...
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1920s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Drypoint, Etching
$2,000 Sale Price
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Cavendish Church
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
A magnificent impression from the collection of the artist's sister, with a dedication in Arms's hand.
Etching on antique grayish-blue laid paper, 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (242 x 140 mm...
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1940s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
Cathedral of Saint Cyr and Saint Julieta, Nevers
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 12 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (328 x 140 mm); sheet 14 7/8 X 8 3/8 inches (389 x 217 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in the lower right margin. Fro...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
Saint Benigne, Dijon
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
A fine impression on antique watermarked paper.
Etching on antique blueish-gray antique laid paper with an unknown crown watermark, 10 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches ( 268 x 175 mm); sheet 13 3...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
Rodez (The Tower of Notre Dame)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on extremely delicate antique Japon laid paper, 12 x 5 (305 x 127 mm); sheet 15 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches (400 x 178 mm), full margins. In very good condition. A magnificently detai...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
Cavendish Church
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper with a deckle edge and with an unidentified watermark with an "AL" inside an ovoid cartouche with a garter and buckle (likely English 19th century), 9 1/2...
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1940s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
Medieval Pageantry
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
A complicated collaboration between two perfectionists.
by John Taylor Arms & Kerr Eby
Etching on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 12 5/8 x 8 11/16 (322 x 222 mm); sheet 18 x 11...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
The Boat Builders Yard, San Trovaso
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on watermarked antique handmade FJ Head paper, 9 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (240 x 373 mm); sheet 14 x 18 1/4 inches (355 x 463 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Edition of 97. A magnificent, silvery impression with extremely minor (almost invisible) mat tone.
[Fletcher 177]
[Illustrated: Page 160, Arms, Dorothy Noyes, "Hilltowns and Cities of Northern Italy"].
The Boat Builders Yard in San Trovaso is a historic 17th-century gondola repair and building yard in Venice, Italy. It's one of the few remaining such workshops in Venice, where skilled artisans traditionally craft and maintain the iconic black gondolas used...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching, Handmade Paper
From the Ponte Vecchio, Florence
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and aquatint on hand made F.J. Head & Co watermarked cream laid paper, full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right margin. From the edition of 160 (from a total of ...
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1920s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Enchanted Doorway, Venezia (La Porta della Carta, Venezia '29)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
Enchanted Doorway, Venezia (La Porta della Carta, Venezia '29). 1930. Etching. Fletcher catalog 227 state ii. 12 3/8 x 6 9/16 (sheet 15 13/16 x 9 15/16). Edition 148 in this state (...
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1920s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching
$1,200 Sale Price
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La Tour D'Horloge, Dinan
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
tching on green-hued antique laid Japon paper, 9 7/16 x 4 1/16 (240 x 104 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Ed. 100 II." One of a total edition on 124 impressions, prin...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
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 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, titled, numbered "III," and inscribed in pencil. O...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
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 150. Printed by Federick Reynolds. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Arms wa...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
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 margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin. One of 13 trial proof ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Laid Paper, Etching
Abbeville; St. Vulfran
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove Japon paper, 7 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches (188 x 197 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. In excellent condition with some minor surface soiling...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
The Grolier Club Library (Sketch)
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper, 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (99 x 150 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "Sketch Grolier Club Library Demonstration Print," and numbered "I" in pen...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
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, dated and inscribed "Ed. 100 II" in pencil in the lower margin. One of 100 impressio...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Laid Paper, Etching, Handmade Paper
The Church of St. Francis and the Natizone; Cividale
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
1931. Etching on antique laid Japon paper, 10 x 14 13/16 inches (254 x 377 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil and inscribed "Ed. 100" (from a total edition of 128). Third state (of ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Laid Paper, Handmade Paper, Etching
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 x 79 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil, lower margin. From the...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Laid Paper, Etching
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 watermark. 4 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches (109 x 61mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Laid Paper, Etching
From the Ponte Vecchio
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Storrs, CT
From the Ponte Vecchio, Florence. 1925. Etching and aquatint. Fletcher catalog 159. state ii. Image: 11 1/8 x 15 1/4 (sheet 13 3/8 x 18 1/4). Edition 160 in this state (total edition...
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1930s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching, Aquatint
$1,600 Sale Price
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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 inscribed "III" in the lower margin. Likely an unrecorded trial proof impression from th...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
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, lower margin. Potentially a trial proof impression aside from the unsigned edition ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Laid Paper, Handmade Paper, Etching
Palazzo dell'Angelo
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Palazzo dell'Angelo
1931
Etching and drypoint on cream-colored, handmade laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (185 x 171 mm), edition of 100, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered "Ed. 100" in pencil, lower margin, second state (of three). Printed by Henry Carling, New York. Extremely minor mat tone and some inky residue in the top right corner, all unobtrusive and well outside of image area. An exquisite impression of this intricate image, with astonishing detail, and all the fine lines printing clearly. The image represents the first print which Arms printed on his own handmade paper. Framed handsomely with archival materials and museum grade glass in a wood gilt frame with a flower and garland motif.
Illustrated: Dorothy Noyes Arms, Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy, p. 180; Anderson, American Etchers Abroad 1880-1930; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth and Printmaking in Venice, 1900-1940, p. 116.
[Fletcher 233]
Born in 1887 in Washington DC, John Taylor Arms studied at Princeton University, and ultimately earned a degree in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912. 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 etching in 1919. His first subjects were the Brooklyn Bridge, near the Navy Yard, and it was during his wartime travel that Arms created a series of extraordinarily detailed etchings based on Gothic cathedrals and churches he visited in France and Italy. He used what was available to him, namely sewing needles and a magnifying glass, to create the incredibly rich and fine detail that his etchings are known for. Upon his return to New York after the war, Arms enjoyed a successful career as a graphic artist, created a series of etchings of American cities, and published Handbook of Print Making and Print Makers (Macmillan, 1934). He served as President of the Society of American Graphic Artists, and in 1933, was made a full member of the National Academy of Design.
In its most modern incarnation, Palazzo dell'Angelo was constructed in or around 1570. The building, which has a rich and storied history, was erected upon the ruins of an earlier structure which predates the Gothic period. Some remnants of the earliest features of the residence were most certainly still visible when Arms visited, as they are today. Having a background in architecture, there's no question that Arms was moved by the beauty, history and ingenuity represented in the physical structure. One thing specifically gives away Arms's passion for the architecture, and that is the fact that he focused on the building's Moorish entranceway, balustrade, and two mullioned windows, and not on the curious Gothic era bas-relief of an angel nestled into the facade of the building, after which the structure is named. The sculpture itself doesn't appear in Arms's composition at all, despite the fact that it is the feature of the building that is most famous in its folklore. Arms instead focuses on the oldest portion of the architecture, even documenting some of the remnants of a fresco, and a funerary stele for the freedman Tito Mestrio Logismo, and his wife Mestria Sperata (visible above the water level, to the left of the door, behind the gondola), which was first described in 1436.
Among the many notable bits of history regarding the Palazzo, it has been documented that Tintoretto painted frescos of battle scenes on the facade of the building. The paintings have been lost to time and the elements, but not entirely to history. The empty frame...
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1930s American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching, Drypoint
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), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin. A trial pr...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Laid Paper, Etching
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 inscribed "IV" in the artist's hand. In very good condition. Fletcher states only two tria...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint
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, dated and inscribed "Ed. 150" in pencil, lower margin. Second state (of 3), before th...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching, Handmade Paper, Aquatint
On Lake Como # 1
By John Taylor Arms
Located in New Orleans, LA
Both of Arms' Lake Como images were mostly printed in color. is a rarer black and white impression,
John Taylor Arms was born in Washington, DC. He studied architecture at the Massa...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Etching
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, dated and inscribed "III" in pencil, lower margin. Edition of 150, third state (of th...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Laid Paper, Etching
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 margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. In excellent condition with light ton...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
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Handmade Paper, Etching
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 and inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin. A trial proof impression of the second...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
John Taylor Arms art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic John Taylor Arms art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by John Taylor Arms in etching, paper, handmade paper and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large John Taylor Arms art, so small editions measuring 2 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of David Klein, Will Barnet, and Joseph Pennell. John Taylor Arms art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $146 and tops out at $6,500, while the average work can sell for $850.