The Bird Man, 1919

Not on View

Medium

aquatint and etching in dark blue on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 19.05 x 12.54 cm (7 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.)

sheet: 31.75 x 24.45 cm (12 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of T. A. Cox

Catalogue Raisonné

Fletcher 1982, no. 025, iii/iii

Accession Number

2011.68.3

Artists / Makers

John Taylor Arms (artist) American, 1887 - 1953

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Inscription

in graphite, lower left, below plate mark: 32/50; lower right: John Taylor Arms - 1919. / Printed by Frederick Reynolds. / lower left, at bottom of sheet: The Birdman. [in another hand] 12 x 15 [indistinct], lower right: No. 1

Provenance

Gift to NGA in 2011 by T.A. Cox, Seal Harbor, Maine.

Associated Names

Cox, Thomas A.

Bibliography

1982: Fletcher, William Dolan. John Taylor Arms, A Man for All Time: The Artist and His Work. New Haven, CT: The Sign of the Arrow, 1982, no. 25.