New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Normandy Noon

Artist John Taylor Arms (American, 1887 - 1953)

CultureAmerican

Date1937

MediumEtching

DimensionsOverall, Plate: 3 3/8 x 7 5/16 in. (8.6 x 18.5 cm)
Overall: 9 3/16 x 11 13/16 in. (23.4 x 30 cm)
Overall, Mat: 22 1/4 x 16 in. (56.5 x 40.6 cm)

InscribedSigned right below plate: "John Taylor Arms 1936". Left corner below plate: "Ed 250 II". Signed right lower edge: "John Taylor Arms '36". The note below the line drawn through the print says: "Edge of drawing surface. Bevel to be outside of this line. Dear Davis - Please cut plate as indicated above and point balance of edition of 255 proof - John". Paper watermarked lower right: "F.J. Head & Co."

Credit LineBequest of Dorothy Noyes Arms

Object number55.28.45A

Not on view

DescriptionEtching on laid paper. Exhibition plate used to demonstrate process of etching at Retrospective Exhibition "21 Years of Drawing", Grand Central Art Galleries, N.Y., Jan 5-30, 1937. A line is drawn through the print, and there is a note below that. Etching #264; Plate #308.

Exhibition HistoryExhibited Gallery H, December 1958.