The Grolier Club Library (Sketch)

1941

John Taylor Arms

Artist, American, 1887 - 1953

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on yellow laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.84 x 15.08 cm (3 7/8 x 5 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 19.05 x 23.5 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.1434

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fletcher 1982, no. 353

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1962

  • Arms, Dorothy Noyes, Marie Probstfield, and May Bradshaw Hayes. Descriptive Catalogue of the Work of John Taylor Arms. Unpublished ms., 1962: 360 i.

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, no. 353.

Inscriptions

in plate, lower left: LIBRARY OF THE GROLIER CLUB / DEMONSTRATION PLATE DRAWN ETCHED / AND PRINTED IN A LITTLE OVER TWO HOURS / AT THE GROLIER CLUB, NEW YORK CITY, ON / THE EVENING OF MARCH 9, 1941. / JOHN TAYLOR ARMS., in graphite, below platemark, lower left: I Sketch, Grolier Club Library. Demonstration Print., lower right / John Taylor Arms 1941

Watermarks

ENGLAND

Wikidata ID

Q64959656

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