John Taylor Arms

Millstone Cottage, Fairfield, Connecticut

John Taylor Arms's "Millstone Cottage, Fairfield Connecticut" is both an early and intimate landscape etching created in 1921. Fairfield was the artist's home for many years and the etching conveys both warmth and love. It was first conceived by the artist as a Christmas card for his friends and it is thus assumed that the first edition is more or less around 200 s, with many not signed under the etching. Several months later John Taylor Arms added several minor changes to the composition and printed a signed edition of seventy five s. This of "Millstone Cottage" hails from the signed edition. It is a beautiful, original example of the famous etched art created by the American artist, John Taylor Arms.

Millstone Cottage Original Etching by the American artist John Taylor Arms

Millstone Cottage, Connecticut

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John Taylor Arms (Washington, DC, 1887 - Fairfield, Connecticut, 1953)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		Bury St. Edmunds by John Taylor Arms	Original Etching	1940	Signed, dated and inscribed by John Taylor Arms in pencil along the lower margin.	Sold
02.-		Millstone Cottage, Connecticut by John Taylor Arms	Original Etching	1921	Signed and dated by John Taylor Arms in pencil to the lower right margin.	Sold
03.-		Stanwick Church by John Taylor Arms	Original Etching	1939	Signed and dated in pencil by John Taylor Arms along the lower margin.	Available

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Title:	Millstone Cottage, Fairfield, Connecticut
Artist:	Arms, John Taylor (Washington, DC, 1887 - Fairfield, Connecticut, 1953)
Date:	1921
Medium:	Original Etching
Note:	John Taylor Arms: During the 1920's, 30's and 40's, the etchings and aquatints of John Taylor Arms provided the standard for other American architectural artists to follow. No artist, however, could match Arms' superb technical skills and, to this day, his incredibly precise and detailed etchings raise feelings of astonishment.
	Given the quality of his work it is not surprising that John Taylor Arms trained first as an architectural draftsman before devoting himself to the art of etching. During the First World War he served as an officer in the American navy . He published his first original etchings in 1919, following the end of the war. During the proceeding decades, Arms spent almost as much time in England, France and Italy as he did in his native country. Arms' lifelong passion was for Gothic architecture and thus Europe was the setting for much of his great art.
	His technical expertise was without equal. Sometimes he employed the fine points of sewing needles to score the etching ground with precision to render the finest shades and tones. Such innovations secured a fine international reputation for Arms. One author writes, “Arms' images were handsome elaborations of an older tradition rendered with impressive technical mastery. These constant features sustained his reputation on both sides of the Atlantic which was buttressed by the knowledgeable praise of Campbell Dodgson, historian of the art and Keeper of Prints at the British Museum, and by the joint publishing of his etchings by Colnaghi & Company in London and by Kennedy & Company in New York.” *
	John Taylor Arms was a full member of the Chicago Society of Etchers, the Print Society of England, the Canadian Painter Etchers, the Associe de la Societe des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and served as the first President of the Society of American Etchers. Examples of his original etchings and aquatints are included in the collections of most major museums, including the Congressional Library, Washington, the British Museum, London, and the Bilbiotheque Nationale, Paris.
Raisonne:	William D. Fletcher, John Taylor Arms: A Man for all Time: The Artist and his Work, Boston, 1982.
	Catalogue: Fletcher #109 Second State of Two as printed in seventy- five signed s.
Reference:	* James Watrous, A Century of American Printmaking: 1880-1980, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, pp. 80 & 81.
Edition:	Limited edition of seventy-five signed s.
Size:	3 X 4 5/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted With 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon fine, hand-made paper and margins cropped to about 1/2 inch from the plate-mark on all sides. Signed and dated by the artist in pencil to the lower right. A finely printed with full plate-tone and in very good condition throughout. Millstone Cottage, Fairfield Connecticut, represents a beautiful, original example of the famous etched art of John Taylor Arms.
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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