Portrait of a Romanesque Capital, 1946

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 6.67 × 6.83 cm (2 5/8 × 2 11/16 in.)

sheet: 23.34 × 12.7 cm (9 3/16 × 5 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Fletcher 1982, no. 397

Accession Number

2015.19.3131

Artists / Makers

John Taylor Arms (artist) American, 1887 - 1953

David Strang (printer) British, 1887 - 1967

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Inscription

lower center in plate: ROMANESQUSE; lower right in plate: [artist's monogram]; lower leftin graphite: IV; lower right in graphite: John Taylor Arm 1946; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: Portrait Romanesque Capital A53000

Marks and Labels

stamped lower center in black ink: [the artist's monogram]

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. 250-251, no. 397.