The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 9, 2026

An ink drawing on vertically oriented cream paper displays layers of cursive handwriting. At the top, a short poem about a frog sits between dates and signatures. Below, more signatures rest above a hand-drawn musical staff. At the bottom, a final signature precedes a small doodle of a duck on our right. The dark ink stands out against the aged surface.

Untitled (Doodle of a Duck, Musical Bar, Text, and Signatures)

1937

John Taylor Arms

(American, 1887–1953)
America
Ink
Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2012.467.5.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 (Doodle of a Duck, Musical Bar, Text, and Signatures)|url=false|author=John Taylor Arms|year=1937|access-date=09 July 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.467.5.b