The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 8, 2026

A vertically oriented cream page features numerous lines of handwritten cursive signatures and dates in black, blue-gray, and brown ink. In the upper right corner, a small rectangular ink sketch depicts birds in flight over a landscape. Toward the bottom, a signature is written on a pasted light-blue rectangular strip. The fluid handwriting varies in size and style, creating an irregular, dense pattern across the majority of the page.

Untitled (Birds in Flight and Signatures)

1946–47

John Taylor Arms

(American, 1887–1953)
America
Ink
Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2012.467.14.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 (Birds in Flight and Signatures)|url=false|author=John Taylor Arms|year=1946–47|access-date=08 July 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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