The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 8, 2026

A vertically oriented cream page features three distinct clusters of flowing handwritten inscriptions. At the top, flourishing blue ink conveys a message of love, signed by Margot, Lucy, and Jim. Below, names like Parker and Adams are recorded in spindly black script. A final bracketed pair of entries concludes the page. Each section notes the 'Stone House' location, with dates from 1953 looping across the paper in elegant cursive.

Untitled (Signatures and Text)

1953
(American, 1887–1953)
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=1953|access-date=08 July 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.467.18.b