"Light and Shade, Taxco" by John Taylor Arms, Amer., (1887-1953) Fresco and monumental and mythic themes

and monumental and mythic themes

which shows Arms' debt to Whistler in the shadowy figure entering at lower left

scattered foxing and some marginal water staining to lower left corner of support sheet

on thick cream wove Rives paper

7-3/4 x 11-5/8

"Light and Shade, Taxco" by John Taylor Arms, Amer., (1887-1953) Fresco and monumental and mythic themesLight and Shade, Taxco, Etching, 1946, F. 394, second state, Ed. of 279 in this state, plus 15 trial proofs: 4 first state, and 11 in the second state, 10 1 2 x 13 3 4, on cream laid paper, signed, dated and dedicated in pencil "To my friend Hobart Nichols, John Taylor Arms, 1946", in fine condition, very faint mat line and a little waviness to sheet edges. One of Arm's "Preferred Plates" and regarded as one of his most intricate and beautiful prints,