Ugly Devil (also called 'Gargoyle Studies' and 'Ugly Devil Eyes')

 

John Taylor Arms

  1887 - 1953 (biography)

1924  

etching 

3 3/16 x 3 1/8" platemark 

pencil, lower margin 

100 

pencil dated after the signature; plate inscribed "Ugly Devil" in lower left image and "Eyes" in the lower right. 

Fletcher 148; Gargoyle Series #12; Miniature Series #10; Arms 150; LOC 131 

ivory wove 

published 

artist 

24560 

$800.00 

The Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Rouen is a Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France. The cathedral was built and rebuilt over more than eight hundred years so the architecture has features from the Early Gothic to the late Flamboyant and Renaissance styles. Arms visited Rouen in 1924 and made sketches of the some of the gargoyles and of the town of Rouen with the cathedral looming above. His original sketch for his etching Gargoyle Studies (a.k.a. Ugly Devil) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art, a gift from Carole and Charles Rosenblatt.