Venetian Filligree by John Taylor Arms, Amer., (1887-1953) Linocut

Venetian Filligree by John Taylor Arms, Amer., (1887-1953) LinocutEtching, 1931, F. 235, Ed. 154, 10 3 4 x 11, signed and numbered Ed. 100 in pencil, slight toning within old mat opening, on thick, cream wove paper with large and full margins, measuring 15 3 8 x 19 1 8. One of Arms' most masterful and celebrated Venetian subjects, showing the elaborate facade of the Palazzo Santa Sophia, called Ca D'Oro, dating from 1428 30, located on the Grand Canal. A fine impression of this magnificent print.

a richly inked impression

powerfully patriotic and moving composition by Lynd Ward

very faint mat line from previous mount

Of course here in the USA we have the sad and horrid legacy of white supremacy and that letter repeated thrice to cast a shadow over our appreciation of this mystical ritual witnessed by Glintenkamp on his world travels nearly a century ago

12-1/8 x 13-7/8 on thin grayish wove tracing paper

signed and dated 41 in gouache l

industrial

lovingly rendered and based upon his own seafaring travel adventures to places both foreign and domestic

on a sheet of fibrous yellow laid japan paper 5-1/4 x 6-3/4

Plate Nine

5-7/16 x 3-1/2

small linear stain lower right margin