John Taylor Arms, Amer., (1887-1953), The Oldest Settler, Bayeux Gouache Swain Gifford

Swain Gifford

like many of his contemporaries

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

John Taylor Arms, Amer., (1887-1953), The Oldest Settler, Bayeux Gouache Swain GiffordEtching, 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