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A Chimera: Rheims

A work made of etching in black on cream wove paper hinged to black wove paper.

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  • A work made of etching in black on cream wove paper hinged to black wove paper.

Date:

1945

Artist:

John Taylor Arms
American, 1887–1953

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

John Taylor Arms

Title

A Chimera: Rheims

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1945

Medium

Etching in black on cream wove paper hinged to black wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed and dated lower right, below plate, in graphite: "John Taylor Arms 1945"; inscribed lower left, below plate, in graphite: "#"; lower left, in graphite: "Chimera"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "045 / #1125"

Dimensions

Image/plate: 7.5 × 6.3 cm (3 × 2 1/2 in.); Sheet: 14.5 × 9.9 cm (5 3/4 × 3 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Browne Goodwin in memory of Diane Goodwin

Reference Number

2015.374

Extended information about this artwork

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