West Forty-Second Street

West Forty-Second Street — John Taylor Arms. c. 1920.

Medium: pen and black ink. Dimensions: .

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

This view of 42nd Street from the corner of Fifth Avenue looks west toward Sixth Avenue. The New York Public Library is in the left foreground. Arms always made contour drawings on site, delineating the important aspects of the subject. Later in his Connecticut studio he traced the outlines of the forms onto tracing paper, which was used to transfer the subject onto the plate.

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.