Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1933-1955.

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Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1933-1955.

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A highly skilled printmaker, John Taylor Arms was associated with many professional arts groups: Associated American Artists, The National Academy of Design, American National Committee of Engraving, Inc., Artists for Victory, Inc., and the Society of American Graphic Artists. These organizations brought Arms into contact with Zigrosser through the years. Arms' style of etching had been tremendously popular, however his personal correspondence here with Zigrosser reflects the crisis he experienced later in his career. An exchange of unusually thoughtful letters relate their thinking about the graphic arts and their regard for one another.

96 items (105 leaves and 20 pamphlets).

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