JOHN TAYLOR ARMS
Early Morning, North River.
Etching and aquatint, 1921. 240x190 mm; 9½x7½ inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right. Printed by Frederick Reynolds, New York. A very good impression.Arms (1887-1953) studied law at Princeton University before transferring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to study architecture. After serving as an officer in the United States Navy during World War I, he devoted himself full-time to etching. He published his first etchings, subjects primarily taken from New York, like the current etching, in 1919. Arms also traveled extensively throughout Europe, France and Italy in particular, and made numerous landscape and architectural etchings. He was a meticulous printmaker, using sewing needles and magnifying glasses to achieve the fine level of detail in his work. Fletcher 100.