The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 8, 2026

A vertical page of cream paper features varied black-inked handwriting. Fluid cursive notes trail across the top. The center displays a decorative inscription for an etching demonstration dated January 13, 1950. At the bottom, two dense columns of signatures streak down the page in a medley of cursive styles. Line weights shift from faint wisps to heavy strokes, creating a rhythmic movement of individual marks against the paper's warm tone.

Untitled (Signatures and Text)

1949–50

John Taylor Arms

(American, 1887–1953)
America
Ink
Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2012.467.17.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 (Signatures and Text)|url=false|author=John Taylor Arms|year=1949–50|access-date=08 July 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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