Title: Aspiration, La Madeleine, Verneuil-Sur-Avre.
Artist: John Taylor Arms (1887-1953).
Medium: Etching, 1939.
Edition 419.
Image size 15 1/2 x 10" (39.5 x 25.3 cm).
Description: Signed and dated in pencil. Inscribed "V." Stamped "Collection - D : Henry Noyes Arms" in the lower left margin. A lengthy pencil inscription in the lower margin, written in the the artist's hand, notes the title, location, church name, series the etching is a part of, the printer and the type of paper the etching was printed on.
#41 in the artist's "French Church Series."
Reference: "John Taylor Arms: A Man for All Time" by William Dolan Fletcher, #329.

John Taylor Arms was one of the more famous printmakers of the first half of the twentieth-century. He is well known for his medieval architectural etchings and precise realism. From his prints one can see his belief that Gothic architecture was man's greatest achievement. As a printmaker, he was mostly self-taught. Even so, his expertise as an etcher was without equal. He would often hone down photograph needles to create lines that need high powered magnification to see. The effect is to give the gothic architecture a texture and a feeling of life that few others could achieve.

Very good condition, minor soiling in the outer margins.