Wasps (Aircraft Patrol : In Search)
John Taylor Arms, American, 1887 - 1953
1920
Etching and aquatint on laid paper
4/30
Plate: 7 13/16 × 5 7/16 in. (19.8 × 13.8 cm)
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 9 1/4 in. (29.5 × 23.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Norman Williams, in memory of her grandson, Edwin Henry Parkhurst III, Class of 1957
PR.958.173
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, upper right: #50 (1); inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: 4/30; signed and dated, in graphite, lower right margin: John Taylor Arms -1920; titled, in graphite, lower left: Wasps-; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, upper left: 555/94; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 12 x 15; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, lower right: Aquatint / Monochrome
Exhibition History
Light in Art, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 2-January 29, 1978.
Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-28, 1974.
Provenance
Margaret Bright Williams (1888-1984), Woodstock, Vermont, given to present collection, 1958 [in memory of her grandson, Edwin Henry Parkhurst III (1936-1954), Class of 1957].
Catalogue Raisonne
Fletcher 51; NYPL 50
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