Plumed Serpent, Chichen Itza, 1940

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 4.92 × 6.35 cm (1 15/16 × 2 1/2 in.)

sheet: 13.02 × 16.83 cm (5 1/8 × 6 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Fletcher 1982, no. 344

Accession Number

2015.19.3130

Artists / Makers

John Taylor Arms (artist) American, 1887 - 1953

David Strang (printer) British, 1887 - 1967

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: II; lower right in graphite: John Taylor Arms 1940; lower center edge in graphite: Plumed Serpent, Chichen Itza; lower left edge in graphite: 305; lower right edge in graphite: 5/0 349

Marks and Labels

stamped lower left in brown ink: COLLECTION - E / JOHN TAYLOR ARMS

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. 218-219, no. 344.