West Forty-Second Street, New York- - 1920, Etching.

Fletcher 41. Edition 75. Signed, dated and numbered 9/75 in pencil.

Image size 13 x 10 1/2 inches (330 x 267 mm); sheet size 16 3/8 x 12 1/8 inches (416 x 308 mm).

A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Illustrated: Whistler to Weidenaar: American Prints 1870-1950, Museum of Art, RISD, 1987.

SOLD

Early Morning, North River, New York - - 1921, Color Etching with Aquatint.

Fletcher 100. Edition 25 (color). Signed, dated and annotated Artist’s Proof in pencil.

Image size 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (241 x 191 mm); sheet size 12 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (321 x 248 mm).

A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; full margins (7/8 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition.

SOLD

The Dragon Ship - - 1922, Color Etching with Aquatint.

Fletcher 121. A unique color proof before the edition of 150. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil.

Image size 13 x 10 inches (330 x 255 mm); sheet size 18 1/4 x 13 7/8 inches (464 x 342 mm).

A brilliant impression with fresh colors, on heavy buff wove paper; full margins (1 3/4 to 2 11/16 inches), in excellent condition. Selected by Arms for his personal collection and bearing the artist's stamp in the lower left margin: COLLECTION - E- JOHN TALYOR ARMS.

Ship series # 2. Printed by Frederick Reynolds. Based on a watercolor by Arms now in the Library of Congress. Collection: LC purchase, Pennel Fund.

$1800.

Bark "Metis" Making Harbor - - 1923, Color Etching with Aquatint.

Fletcher 133. Edition 200. Signed in pencil.

Image size 11 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches (302 x 454 mm); sheet size 17 1/4 x 23 inches (438 x 584 mm).

A superb, luminous impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove Japan; wide margins (2 1/2 to 2 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Ship series # 6. Printed by Frederick Reynolds.

$1800.

Notre Dame de Paris - - 1925, Etching with Aquatint.

Fletcher 167. Edition 150. Signed and dated in pencil.

Image size 12 3/16 x 13 3/4 inches (310 x 349 mm); 15 1/2 x 18 1/8 inches (394 x 460 mm).

A superb impression, with a wide range of values and all the fine lines printing cleanly, in warm black ink, on cream laid paper; full margins (1 5/8 x 2 3/4 inches). Soft creasing in the top right and bottom left sheet corners, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition.

French church series # 7. Illustrated in Dorothy Noyes Arms, Churches of France; John Taylor Arms: American Etcher, exhibition catalog, Elvehjem Art center, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1975.

$2600.

San Trovaso - - 1926, Etching.

Fletcher 177, Edition 97. Signed and dated in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right.

Image size 9 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (242 x 374 mm); sheet size 12 1/2 x 18 1/8 inches (318 x 460 mm).

A superb, clean impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 3/8 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition.

Illustrated in Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy by Dorothy Noyes Arms; Macmillan, New York, 1932.

Chartres also titled Cathedral of Notre Dame from the River also titled Notre Dame de Chartres - - 1927, Etching.

Fletcher 193, Edition 100. Signed, dated 1928 and annotated Second State in pencil. Signed, dated 1924 and titled in the plate, lower left.

Image size 13 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches (333 x 251 mm); sheet size 15 7/8 x 13 1/2 inches (403 x 343 mm).

A fine impression, on pale blue/grey antique laid paper, with full margins (1 3/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition.

French Church Series #14. Printed by Frederick Reynolds. Arms etched the first trial state in 1924 and published the second (final) state in 1927.

Rocamadour - - 1927, Etching.

Fletcher 186, Edition 50. Signed, dated and annotated First State in pencil. Titled and dated Rocamadour 1926 in the plate, bottom right.

Image size 13 3/4 x 10 inches (349 x 254 mm); sheet size 15 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches (400 x 346 mm).

A superb, finely detailed impression, in warm brown ink, on buff laid Japan, with full margins (1 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.

French church series # 10. Illustrated in Dorothy Noyes Arms, Churches of France.

Basilica of the Madeleine, Vézelay (The Abbey Church of Ste. Madeleine) - - 1929, Etching with Pencil.

Fletcher 223. Edition 130, first state trial proof. Signed, dated and annotated First State -Trial proof II (touched proof) in ink.

Image size 12 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches (321 x 184 mm); sheet size 16 x 9 15/16 inches (406 x 252 mm).

A superb impression with the finest lines printing cleanly, in warm black ink, on pale blue antique laid paper; full margins (1 1/4 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Pencil additions made by the artist in the courtyard foreground.

A unique, unrecorded impression. Fletcher indicates that the only 2 first state trial proofs have been destroyed.

Illustrated in Dorothy Noyes Arms' Churches of France.

$900.

From Knoedler's Window - - 1936, Etching with Aquatint.

Fletcher 293B. Edition 271, 4th state of 5. Signed, dated and annotated IV in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower right.

Image size 5 1/16 x 4 15/16 inches (129 x 125 mm); sheet size 12 5/8 x 9 1/8 inches (321 x 232 mm).

A superb, finely detailed impression, with full margins (2 1/8 to 4 5/8 inches), on cream wove Japan paper, in excellent condition.

Ex-collection Kennedy Galleries.

SOLD

Battle Wagon – U.S.S. Alabama Outfitting at Norfolk Navy Yard, Crane Ship Kearsarge Alongside – 1942 - -

1943, Etching with Aquatint

U.S. Navy Series # 1, Fletcher 376. Edition 872. Signed, dated and numbered VI in pencil.

Image size 11 3/4 x 17 13/16 inches (298 x 452 mm); sheet size 16 3/4 x 22 inches (425 x 559 mm).

A superb impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins (2 to 2 5/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Illustrated in John Taylor Arms: A Man For All Time, William Dolan Fletcher, Library of Congress, 1982. 1st Honorable Mention for Black and White, Irvington Public Library, NJ, 1944; Prize for Black and White, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 1944; Special Jury Award for U.S. Navy Series, 1944; Tie for Popular Prize, Spring Exhibition, Springfield, MA, 1944.

$750.

Destroyers in Wet Basin at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, South Kearney, N.J., U.S.S. Radford, Quick, Mervine – 1942

1943, Etching.

U.S. Navy Series # 2, Fletcher 377. Edition 875. Signed, dated and numbered III in pencil.

Image size 10 x 17 5/16 inches (254 x 440 mm); sheet size 14 7/8 x 21 1/4 inches (378 x 540 mm).

A superb impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 15/16 to 3 inches), in excellent condition.

Illustrated in John Taylor Arms: A Man For All Time,William Dolan Fletcher, Library of Congress, 1982. Prize for Black and White, Annual Exhibition, Audobon Artists, New York, NY, 1944; Special Jury Award for Group of U.S. Navy Series #1, 2 and 3, 3rd National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA, 1944.

$800.

U.S.S. Columbia Under Construction at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, N.J. – 1942

1945, Etching and Drypoint.

U.S. Navy Series # 3, Fletcher 390. Edition 766. Signed, dated, and numbered II in pencil. Initialed in the plate, lower left.

Image size 12 5/16 x 17 5/16 inches (313 x 440 mm); sheet size 17 x 22 1/4 inches (432 x 565 mm).

A superb impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 15/16 to 2 5/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Illustrated in John Taylor Arms: A Man For All Time, William Dolan Fletcher, Library of Congress, 1982. Loule Prize, 1st Prize Black and White Division, Annual Exhibition, Bridgeport Art League, Bridgeport, CT, 1946; 1st Prize in Black and White, Irvington Art and Museum Association, Irvington Public Library, Irvington, NJ, 1947; Honorable Mention, Chicago Society of Etchers, Chicago, IL, 1947.

$750.

U.S.S. Haddo, Portrait of a Submarine – 1942

1947, Etching with Aquatint.

U.S. Navy Series # 4, Fletcher 405. Edition 772. Signed, dated and numbered III in pencil. Stamped with the artist's monogram, in the bottom center margin.

Image size 9 1/2 x 18 inches (241 x 457 mm); sheet size 14 x 21 7/16 inches (356 x 545 mm).

A superb impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 5/8 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition.

Illustrated in John Taylor Arms: A Man For All Time, William Dolan Fletcher, Library of Congress, 1982. Purchase Prize, Federation of Women's Club, Annual Exhibition, Bridgeport Art League, 1948.

$850.

The Herbert Lowell Dillon Gymnasium, Princeton, NJ - - 1947, Etching.

Fletcher 406. Edition 356 (53 destroyed because of imperfection). Signed and dated in pencil. Inscribed Trial Proof IV I in pencil. Annotated by the artist: Light tone, hand wiped, dragged up all over. Private Collection A. Stamped COLLECTION - A, DOROTHY NOYES ARMS, and JTA circular monogram in the bottom center sheet edge.

Image size 8 x 9 1/4 inches (204 x 236 mm); sheet size 11 3/8 x 17 3/8 inches (289 x 441 mm).

A superb impression with delicately controlled plate tone, on cream cream laid paper; with full margins (1 3/8 to 3 7/8 inches). Several small tears in the right sheet edge; a diagonal crease in the top left margin; all well away from the image. Printed on a large sheet of antique paper, bearing three 19th century french postmark stamps in the left sheet edge, recto. Marked wt and wpc II in pencil, in the artist's hand, bottom right sheet corner.

$500.

Memento Vivere, Notre Dame Cathedral, Evreux - - 1947, Etching.

Fletcher 407. Edition 198. Signed and dated in pencil.

Image size 13 1/2 x 7 inches (344 x 178 mm); sheet size 16 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches (425 x 260 mm).

A superb, clean impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins, in excellent condition.

From the French Church series, number 47. Winner of 5 awards, 1947-51. Collection: LC.

SOLD

French Lace (West Portal of the Main Façade, Notre Dame, Aveyron, France) - - 1949, Etching.

Fletcher 415. Edition 306, 1 of 11 trial proofs. Signed, dated and numbered II in pencil.

Image size 7 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches (201 x 115 mm); sheet size 10 5/8 x 7 1/16 inches (270 x 179 mm).

A superb, highly detailed impression, with all the finest lines printing clearly; on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 1/8 to 1 7/16 inches). Original brown paper tape remains in the top left and right sheet corners, veso, otherwise in excellent condition.

Commissioned by the Society of American Etchers. Collection: LC purchase, Pennel Fund.

$450.