The Grolier Club Library (Sketch)

1941

John Taylor Arms

Associated Names
John Taylor Arms

Artist, American, 1887 - 1953

The image displays a library with a long rectangular table in the center, surrounded by tall bookshelves. The room has full shelves on both sides, leading to large windows at the far end. The ceiling has intricate beamed designs, and there is a chandelier above the table. The floor has a checkered pattern. Details like sculptural busts on shelves and fine furniture are depicted, creating a scholarly atmosphere.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on yellow laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.84 x 15.08 cm (3 7/8 x 5 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 19.05 x 23.5 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1434

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fletcher 1982, no. 353

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1962

  • Arms, Dorothy Noyes, Marie Probstfield, and May Bradshaw Hayes. Descriptive Catalogue of the Work of John Taylor Arms. Unpublished ms., 1962: 360 i.

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. 353.

Inscriptions

in plate, lower left: LIBRARY OF THE GROLIER CLUB / DEMONSTRATION PLATE DRAWN ETCHED / AND PRINTED IN A LITTLE OVER TWO HOURS / AT THE GROLIER CLUB, NEW YORK CITY, ON / THE EVENING OF MARCH 9, 1941. / JOHN TAYLOR ARMS., in graphite, below platemark, lower left: I Sketch, Grolier Club Library. Demonstration Print., lower right / John Taylor Arms 1941

Watermarks

ENGLAND

Wikidata ID

Q64959656

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