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Ship Series No. 4: Where the Junk Sail Lift

Ship Series No. 4: Where the Junk Sail Lift

1922
(American, 1887–1953)
published by

Frederick Reynolds

America, 20th century
color etching and aquatint
Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2009.656
Courtesy of John Taylor Arms/© Suzanne Arms Hawkins
Catalogue raisonné: Fletcher, 130
Location: not on view

Description

Arms planned a series of color aquatints that would illustrate the history and development of the ship from the earliest times to the present day, but he only created seven plates including this one. His etching and aquatints resemble ukiyo-e––Japanese 18th- and 19th-century color woodcuts––in the subtly graduated flat areas of tone, simplified and silhouetted shapes, tilted perspective, asymmetry, truncated forms, and the exaggerated juxtaposition of foreground and background.
  • Modern Gothic: The Etchings of John Taylor Arms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 30, 2012).
  • {{cite web|title=Ship Series No. 4: Where the Junk Sail Lift|url=false|author=John Taylor Arms, Frederick Reynolds|year=1922|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.656