id: 110244 accession number: 1928.87 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.87 updated: 2020-08-18 09:02:10.179000 Street in Blois, France , 1927. John Taylor Arms (American, 1887-1953). Etching; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1928.87 Courtesy of John Taylor Arms/© Suzanne Arms Hawkins title: Street in Blois, France title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1927 creation date earliest: 1927 creation date latest: 1927 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: Courtesy of John Taylor Arms/© Suzanne Arms Hawkins --- culture: America, 20th century technique: etching department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Fletcher, 204 --- CREATORS * John Taylor Arms (American, 1887-1953) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Modern Gothic: The Etchings of John Taylor Arms opening date: 2012-06-09T00:00:00 Modern Gothic: The Etchings of John Taylor Arms. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 9-September 30, 2012). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Arms was invited to Cleveland to lecture about the process of making an etching. He evangelically promoted printmaking in the many demonstration talks he gave beginning in 1920 and by participating in many other activities. He came to Cleveland in December 1927, and produced Street in Blois (Sketch) in front of an audience of 90 print club members. A good friend and fellow etcher, Samuel Chamberlain, described one of Arms’s demonstrations, “This is an amazing performance in which he follows all the steps of making a plate—grounding the copper surface, needling the picture (casually drawing with both hands), biting in acid and pulling a finished proof––and in one tense sitting, while carrying on a stentorian monologue and apparently not stopping for breath.” --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES