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Grace Martin (Frame) Taylor
Southern Woman Artist Grace Martin Taylor Watercolor - West Palm Beach

1945

$2,850
£2,175.96
€2,514.30
CA$4,000.86
A$4,459.38
CHF 2,339.68
MX$54,456.25
NOK 29,625.46
SEK 28,000.56
DKK 18,765.35

About the Item

Early Watercolor of West Palm Beach by Southern Woman Artist Grace Martin (Frame) Taylor. The work is in excellent condition and nicely framed under glass. Painting measures 11"h x 14"w. The frame is 19 5/8"h and 22"w. The watercolor is signed and dated lower left and also titled and dated in graphite as well. Grace Martin Frame Taylor (1903-1995), a native of Morgantown, West Virginia, launched a nearly forty-year affiliation with the Mason College of Music and Fine Arts, now part of the University of Charleston in West Virginia. In 1921, Taylor enrolled at the University of West Virginia in her hometown; disappointed by the art curriculum, however, she left after just one year to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She returned to the University of West Virginia in 1924 to finish her bachelor’s degree, selecting English as her major, with an emphasis on journalism; she eventually earned a master’s degree there in 1929. Following her graduation, Taylor went to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and renewed her interest in art under the guidance of her distant cousin Blanche Lazzell. Both Provincetown and Lazzell had gained a significant reputation for a particular kind of color woodblock printmaking known as the white line method. Grace Taylor embraced this approach wholeheartedly; for twenty-eight summers she returned to Provincetown to advance her printmaking skills with Lazzell and Heinrich Pfeiffer. In the ensuing decades, she also studied under Hans Hofmann whom she called her “very favorite modern master.” Taylor traveled to other destinations to further her education. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, she spent time at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh; closer to home, she studied at the Old White Art Colony in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and took lessons in portraiture in the capital city of Charleston in 1941. Farther afield, she went to Taos, New Mexico, and received instruction from Emil Bisttram. In the 1950s, she headed to the Akron Art Institute and Ohio University for classes in painting and printmaking respectively; in 1960, she went to the Art Students League in New York. Taylor’s home base, however, was in Charleston; in 1929, she joined the faculty at Mason College as an instructor, was promoted to associate professor, moved on to lead the art department, and then assumed the deanship. Ultimately, Taylor became president of the college; after its merger with Morris Harvey College in 1956, she continued to teach for another twelve years. As an advocate for artistic activity in the state, Taylor was involved in the founding of the Allied Artists of West Virginia in 1931, serving as its president 1932–1934. Thirty years later, she helped to establish the Creative Arts Festival of West Virginia. Since her death, Taylor’s work has been widely exhibited, most notably at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the British Museum. The Art Museum of West Virginia University owns more than two hundred of Taylor’s works, many of which were donated by the artist’s daughter.
  • Creator:
    Grace Martin (Frame) Taylor (1903 - 1995, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1945
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.63 in (49.87 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Phoenix, AZ
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2749216492002

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