Street in Blois, France

John Taylor Arms · 1927

John Taylor Arms: American, 1887 - 1953

UnclassifiedUnited States

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Street in Blois, France

1927

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Medium: etching
Collection no.: 1928.87
Attribution: By the artist

Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Street in Blois, France — John Taylor Arms. 1927.

Medium: etching. Dimensions: .

Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Arms was invited to Cleveland to lecture about the process of making an etching. He evangelically promoted printmaking in the many demonstration talks he gave beginning in 1920 and by participating in many other activities. He came to Cleveland in December 1927, and produced Street in Blois (Sketch) in front of an audience of 90 print club members. A good friend and fellow etcher, Samuel Chamberlain, described one of Arms’s demonstrations, “This is an amazing performance in which he follows all the steps of making a plate—grounding the copper surface, needling the picture (casually drawing with both hands), biting in acid and pulling a finished proof––and in one tense sitting, while carrying on a stentorian monologue and apparently not stopping for breath.”

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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