John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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
Eglise Notre Dame, Les Andelys
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on greenish cream wove paper, 3 1/4 x 1 15/16 inches (81 x 48 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed "III" in pencil. Number 46 from the French Churche...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Handmade Paper, Etching
Stranger in England, St. Lawrence, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 5 9/16 x 2 3/4 inches (142 x 70 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, numbered "III," and inscribed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin, recto. In v...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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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 100" in pencil, lower margin. Second state (of 2)....
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
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, 2 1/4 x 2 15/16 inches (58 x 75 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "II"...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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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 inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin. Likely one of eight trial proof impressions f...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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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. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. First and only state. Printed by Frederi...
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Early 20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Portait of a Romanesque Capital
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on light cream wove paper, 2 5/8 x 2 11/16 inches (68 x 69 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and inscribed "IV" in pencil, lower margin. Likely a proof impression of the t...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Handmade Paper, Etching
Hambourg
By John Taylor Arms
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: John Taylor Arms (American , 1887-1953)
Title: Hambourg
Year: 1927
Medium: Etching
Edition: Unknown
Paper: Thin paper
Image (plate mark) size: 10.1 x 4.85 i...
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Early 20th Century John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Etching
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 inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin. From the second state (of 2) before the re...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
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 dated in pencil. In good condition with light mat tone on the recto and various frame...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
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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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper
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 pencil lower margin. From the editoin of 156, printed by Frederick Reynolds. In s...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Handmade Paper, Etching
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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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Laid Paper, Etching
Racamadour (French Church Series #10) — Lyrical Realism
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Rocamadour' (French Church Series # 10), etching, 1927, edition 50, Fletcher 186. Signed, dated, and annotated 'First State' in pencil. Titled and dated 'Rocamadour 1926' in the plate, bottom right. A superb, finely detailed impression, in dark brown ink, on buff laid Japan paper, with full margins (1 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.
Image size 13 3/4 x 10 inches (349 x 254 mm); sheet size 15 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches (400 x 346 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Literature: illustrated in Dorothy Noyes Arms, 'Churches of France', The Macmillan Company, 1929.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Davis Museum (Wellesley), McNay Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and the Whitney Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE SUBJECT
Rocamadour is a small clifftop village in south-central France. It is known for the Cité Réligieuse complex of religious buildings, accessed via the Grand Escalier staircase. It includes the Chapelle Notre-Dame, with its Black Madonna statue, and the Romanesque-Gothic Basilica of St-Sauveur.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“John Taylor Arms will live on and on and future generations centuries from now will marvel at his work... . As a friend and as a man, he fully matched his superb work.” —John Winkler, printmaker
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1887, John Taylor Arms attended the Lawrenceville School and began the study of law at Princeton University. In 1907, he transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and took up the study of architecture. Arms evolved his unique drafting style, with its highly realistic, precise detail and exquisitely rendered effects of light, from his experience and practice as an architectural student. He graduated in 1911 and completed a master’s degree the following year. He then worked as a draftsman with the well-known Carrere and Hastings Company in New York.
In 1913 Arms was given a hobbyist’s etching set, and he began to dabble with copperplate and acid. In 1915, after copying a handful of prints by Jongkind and other Etching Revivalists, Arms created his first original etching. His early experiments were picturesque views of European villages, reflecting the influence of Whistler. He inked and printed several of these plates in color in the manner of Charles Mielatz...
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1920s American Realist John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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John Taylor Arms, Study in Stone, Cathedral of Ourense
By John Taylor Arms
Located in New York, NY
John Taylor Arms was known for making such finely drawn etchings that commercial tools were not good enough: He regularly used sewing needles with corks ...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Etching
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 Victory, set in a cartouche, surmounted by the Crown of England, 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inche...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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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 44 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil and inscribed "III" in the lower margin. A p...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern John Taylor Arms Figurative Prints
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Handmade Paper, Etching
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