Print of the Day!! Fri, Jan 26, 2024 is by John Taylor Arms (1887-1953). "Memento Vivere, Notre Dame, Evreux", etching, 1947, edition 198.
Print of the Day!! Friday, January 26, 2024 American master printmaker John Taylor Arms (1887-1953).
"Memento Vivere, Notre Dame, Evreux", is an intaglio, an etching, done in 1947. The platemark measures 13-3/8 x 7 inches. This impression is pencil signed, dated, and inscribed in the plate "II" by the artist in the lower? margin. It was printed on a sheet of ivory laid paper that measures 15-5/8 x 10 inches by the artist and Master Printer David Strang in an edition of 198. This proof impression is numbered "II" and is from the second state of two. This impression bears a stamp that reads "Collection B / Margery Arms Roberts". This image is #47 in Arms' French Churches Series. References include: Fletcher 407; Arms 418; Library of Congress 206. The gallery inventory number for this work is 24580.
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In Memento Vivere, Notre Dame, Evreux Arms elected to present this magnificent cathedral from a slight angle rather than head on. He portrayed with elegant reverence the majestic architecture and magnificent windows of the north transept of the cathedral. évreux is located in Normandy, France and its cathedral was first built in the 10th century. It was remodeled in the 13th century so the lower portions are in the Romanesque style while the upper portions are in the Gothic style. The cathedral is noted for the 70 stained-glass windows which are considered masterpieces of 13th and 16th century French stained-glass art.
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John Taylor Arms, printmaker, lecturer, illustrator, and administrator, was born in Washington, D.C. on 19 April 1887. He first studied law at Princeton University but transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study architecture, earning a Master's Degree in 1912. He studied with Ross Turner, David A. Gregg, and Felton Brown. For five years after his graduation Arms worked for the architectural firm Carrere and Hastings, before establishing his own architectural firm of which he was a partner.
A gift of an etching kit from his wife, Dorothy, changed the course of his life. He produced his first etching in 1915 and he eventually produced 441 prints, mostly etchings. Arms became one of the most famous printmakers of the first half of the twentieth century. He is mostly noted for his etchings of medieval architecture but early subjects also included ships, sailboats, airplanes, rural landscapes, and the streets, buildings, and bridges of New York.
Arms' exhibition history was lengthy beginning in 1927 and continuing to 1952. He authored 'Hand-Book of Print Making and Print Makers' in 1934 and illustrated 'Churches of France' and 'Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy' by his wife, Dorothy Noyes Arms. His work can be found in most major collections of American prints.
Arms was an activist for printmaking and assisted in assembling exhibitions of American graphic art that were shown in Sweden, Czechoslovakia and Rome; he was editor of the Print Department of Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, and he lectured on the techniques, history and value of original prints. Arms also served as the president of the Tiffany Foundation in 1940. John Taylor Arms died in New York City on 15 October 1953.
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