Biografie von John Taylor ARMS (1887-1953)

Birth place: Washington, DC

Death place: NYC

Addresses: South Dartmouth, MA 1925; Fairfield, CT, 1929

Profession: Etcher, writer, illustrator, lecturer

Studied: Princeton Univ.; MIT, B.S. (1911), M.S. (1912); studied with Ross Turner, D. A. Gregg, and Felton Brown.

Exhibited: Pennsylvania Print Club (Lea Etching Price); SC, 1927; NAC, 1927; S.Indp.A., 1929-44; Soc. Etchers, 1931 (Noyes Prize); WMAA, 1933-42; PAFA, 1935 (Eyre Med.); CPLH, 1933; SSAL, 1932 (Silva prize), 1933 (Silva prize), 1934 (Silva prize), 1937, 1940, 1941, 1946 (prize); Chicago SE, 1932 (prize); Paris Salon, 1937 (gold med.); AIC, 1939 (Logan Prize); Baltimore WC Club, 1939; Brooklyn SE; Northwest Print Makers, 1940; Meriden, CT, 1941, 1945 (prize); Litt. D., Hobart College, 1940; AIA (medal); Bridgeport Art Lg., prizes,1945, 1946; Irvington Art & Mus. Assn., 1945 (prize); CAFA, 1946 (prize); P. & S. Soc., 1946 (prize); Audubon Artists, 1948 (med.); Boston Print Makers, 1951 (prize); Florida Southern College, 1952 (prize); NAD, 1949 (prize); New Haven Paint & Clay Club, 1950 (prize); Albany Print Club, 1951 (prize); SAGA, 1952; Salons of Am. Awards: hon. degree, M.A., Wesleyan Univ., 1939.

Member: NA; Canadian Painters, Etchers & Engravers; Royal Soc. Painters, Etchers & Engravers; SAGA (pres.); Nat. Inst. Arts & Letters; AFA; AAPL; SSAL; Audubon Artists; Southern Print Makers; Phila. Artists Alliance; Arch. Lg.; Am. Color Print Soc. (vice-pres.); North Shore AA; Washington WCC; Chicago Soc. Etchers; SC; Cleveland Print Club.

Work: NYPL (owns copies of all his works); British Mus., Victoria & Albert Mus., London; Toronto Art Gal.; MMA; PMFA; Detroit Inst. Art; BMFA; FMA; AIC; BM; IBM; SAM; CI.; Yale Univ.; de Young Mem. Mus.; CMA; CGA; LOC; SAE; PAFA; Worcester Art Mus.; Los Angeles Mus. History.

Comments: Known for his etchings of medieval architecture. He began as an architect but took up printmaking seriously in the early 1920s, making several trips to Europe to study Gothic architecture, which became his favorite subject. He also illustrated the writings of his wife, Dorothy Noyes. Assisted in assembling exhibitions of Am. graphic art to be sent to Sweden & Czechoslovakia, 1937, and to Rome, 1938. Positions: trustee, 1938, pres., 1940, Tiffany Fnd.; member, Pennell Fund Committee, Library Congress, Washington, DC; editor, Print Dept., Print Magazine; visiting lecturer, Wesleyan Univ., 1938-39. Lectures: Prints: Technique, History, Value, etc. Author: Hand-Book of Print Making and Print Makers (1934); illustrator, Churches of France," "Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy."

Sources: WW53; WW47; Baigell, Dictionary; Blasdale, Artists of New Bedford, 32 (w/repro.)."