Ugly Devil, 1925

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 8.1 × 7.94 cm (3 3/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

sheet: 23.18 × 20.64 cm (9 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leithauser in Honor of Frances Smyth)

Catalogue Raisonné

Fletcher 1982, no. 148

Accession Number

2015.19.3129

Artists / Makers

John Taylor Arms (artist) American, 1887 - 1953

Frederick T. Reynolds (printer) American, 1882 - 1945

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Inscription

lower left in plate: "Ugly Devil"; lower right in plate: "Eyes"; lower right in graphite: John Taylor Arms - 1924; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Gargoyle Studies / [not deciphered]INN; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: P792 [circled] / 73-056-OWX

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Leithauser, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Leithauser, Mark

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, pp. 106-107, no. 148.