This England (Fairford, Gloucestershire)
1952
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View on museum website →Medium
etching in black on gray wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 16.19 × 28.89 cm (6 3/8 × 11 3/8 in.) sheet: 26.35 × 37.94 cm (10 3/8 × 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.19.1087
About the Artist
John Taylor Arms
John Taylor Arms (1887–1953) was one of America's foremost etchers of the twentieth century, renowned for his meticulous renderings of Gothic architecture. Born in Washington, D.C., he initially pursued law at Princeton University before transferring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a master's degree in architecture in 1912. He apprenticed as a draftsman and worked for...