The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 9, 2026

A vertically oriented page of off-white paper features sweeping black ink cursive signatures and phrases dated to 1942. At top, text reads "Full of thoughts but unable to express them." In the center, a faint sketch depicts a wide-eyed girl with wavy hair. Below, a small drawing shows a lighthouse on a rocky coast. Over fifteen signatures flow to the bottom, where blue and black ink smudges the final names.

Untitled (Girl's Face, Farm, Text, and Signatures)

1942

John Taylor Arms

(American, 1887–1953)
America
Ink
Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2012.467.11.b
Courtesy of John Taylor Arms/© Suzanne Arms Hawkins
Location: Not on view
  • September 23, 1991
    (Waverly Auctions, Bethesda, MD)
    1991-2013
    Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt, Pepper Pike, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    March 4, 2013-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Arms, John Taylor, and William Dolan Fletcher. John Taylor Arms, a Man for All Time: The Artist and His Work. [Place of publication not identified]: Sign of the Arrow, 1982.
    Saville, Jennifer, and John Taylor Arms. John Taylor Arms: Plates of Perfect Beauty. 1995.
  • The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor Arms. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (May 8-November 27, 2011).
  • {{cite web|title=Untitled (Girl's Face, Farm, Text, and Signatures)|url=false|author=John Taylor Arms|year=1942|access-date=09 July 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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