Cordes (Sketch), 1951

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 76.62 × 10 cm (30 3/16 × 3 15/16 in.)

sheet: 19.53 × 15.88 cm (7 11/16 × 6 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

Catalogue Raisonné

Fletcher 1982, no. 425

Accession Number

2015.19.1089

Artists / Makers

John Taylor Arms (artist) American, 1887 - 1953

Charles S. White (printer) American, 1877 - 1955

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Inscription

lower left in plate: [artist's monogram]; lower left in graphite: II; lower right in graphite; John Taylor Arms 1951; lower center in graphite: Sketch, Cordes - Impression from a Demonstration Plate drawn, / etched and printed in 2 3/4 hrs, in a Demonstration of "The Making of / an Etching" at The Library of Congress, Washington, DC., May 22, / 1951'' / To my dear friends Wilma and Fred Fowler / in affectionate friendship / John Taylor Arms, 1951; lower right edge in graphite: WC

Marks and Labels

stamped lower center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bristow, Frank B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

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. 267-268, no. 425.