Street in Borgio

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Street in Borgio

Artist John Taylor Arms (American, 1887-1953)

Date1926

DimensionsImage: H. 4 in. (9 cm): W. 1 3/4 in. (4.3 cm)

MediumEtching

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Doreen C. Spitzer in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Ward M. Canaday

Object number

1976.87

Not on View

Label TextJohn Taylor Arms’ wife, Dorothy Noyes Arms, recounted the couple’s visit to the town of Borgio, located in northwest Italy on the coast of the Mediterranean’s Ligurian Sea: “A distant gray shape against a hill caught our fancy and we stopped at Borgio, a little town as remote from the main highway as it is in spirit from the modern world. We reached it by a narrow road which led, white and glaring, between vineyards and rows of carefully tended trees, which later in the season produce the famous peaches of this section. We came to the outskirts; first straggling houses, then the narrow, crowded dwellings of those who, since ancient times, have clustered close for mutual protection.”Exhibition HistoryToledo Musem of Art, Storytelling in Miniature,, October 7, 2011-March 4, 2012.Comparative ReferencesSee also Library of Congress, American Prints, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1970, no. 462.