John Taylor Arms, Amer., (1887-1953), The Oldest Settler, Bayeux Gouache 5-7/8 x 7-7/16

5-7/8 x 7-7/16

Wadsworth Barn is the only etching by the artist known to have been issued in a commissioned edition by an institution

Marc Chabot Fine Arts has a particular interest in works by Balthazar

The cataloguing notes for an impression of this print at the New Britain Museum of American Art set me straight

showing a procession of river boats hauling freight around a densely wooded bend in the Harlem River

John Taylor Arms, Amer., (1887-1953), The Oldest Settler, Bayeux Gouache 5-7/8 x 7-7/16Etching, 1917, also called P. Labbe, Restauranteur, also called Bayeux, Ed. of 75, 2nd State, 15 1 4 x 9 9 16, ref. F. 13, signed and dated 1917 and dedicated "To my friends, Mr. and Mrs. J. McV. Breed John T. Arms", and inscribed # 5, all in pencil, small tack holes to 3 corners, old hinges top verso, on antique cream laid paper with partial watermark, and modest but full original margins of at least 3 4, the sheet 17 11 16 x 11 1 4. A large, very