Memento Vivere, Notre Dame, Evreux, 1947

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series Title

French Church Series #47

Medium

etching in brown black on blue laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 34 x 17.8 cm (13 3/8 x 7 in.)

sheet: 37.8 x 24.1 cm (14 7/8 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John Taylor Arms IV

Catalogue Raisonné

Fletcher 1982, no. 407 ii/ii

Accession Number

2008.112.5

Artists / Makers

John Taylor Arms (artist) American, 1887 - 1953

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Inscription

lower left below platemark in graphite: II To Penelope B. Noyes, with affection / John Taylor Arms 1948 / "Memento Vivere" / (North Transcept of Cathedral of Evreux); lower right below platemark in graphite: John Taylor Arms 1947; lower left corner in pen and brown ink by unknown hand: (not deciphered); lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: sp

Provenance

John Taylor Arms IV, Florida; bequest to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Arms IV, John T., Estate of

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, p. 256, no. 407, ii/ii.