Additional information
| Artist | Taylor |
|---|---|
| Country | American |
| Region | North American |
ArtistTaylor, Prentiss
Artist Years1907-1991
Artist NationalityAmerican
TitleSiesta, Montecassino
Year1945
MediumPrint > Lithograph
DimensionsComposition: 11.1 X 15.4 inches
Catalog ReferenceRose & Quiroz 69
Description
Stone lithograph, signed and dated in pencil and annotated with title and “Proof for George” (Miller), printed on fine-grained, cream, wove paper, watermarked “Les Bibliophile”, 1.2 – 1.6 inch margins, printed by George Miller. Plate LXXXI. Fine condition, minor handling creases, linen tape hinge remnants, verso. Free shipping to US address.
(bx-36)
NotesPrentiss Taylor (December 13, 1907 – October 7, 1991) was an American illustrator, lithographer, and painter. Born in Washington D.C., Taylor began his art studies at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, followed by painting classes under Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and training at the Art Students League in New York City. In 1931, Taylor began studying lithography at the League. Taylor interacted and collaborated with many writers and musicians in his time in New York in the late 1920s and early 30s. This was in the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance. Among his close friends and colleagues were Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten.
Taylor’s work is in the collection of numerous institutions such as: the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art; The Phillips Collection; Gibbes Museum of Art; Museum of New Mexico; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art Fisk University Galleries and Greenville County Museum of Art.
Born on December 13, 1907 at home to John Eastlack Taylor and Beatrice Hottel. His birth assisted by his grandmother’s cook, known as Cookie Belle. In high school, Prentiss graduated from McKinley “Tech” High School, where he had studied art under Mary P. Shipman, Alexis Manny and Charles Lamb. He graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1925.
In the 1920s, Taylor studied painting with Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, but turned to lithography in the late 1920s to early 1930s during his enrollment at the Art Students League in New York City. He received further training in that medium at the George C. Miller workshop in New York. During this period, he also designed costumes for the American-Oriental Revue, as well as designed scenery for plays at the Arts Club of Washington.
Prentiss established the Washington Wheat Press as a means for publishing, and within the paper were various poems and illustrations by the artist as well as poems and prose by Josiah Titzell, Rachel Field and Laura Benet. After Taylor discovered lithographing in 1931, he worked primarily in the printmaking medium for the rest of his life, experimenting with various techniques and compositions and ultimately achieving a status as one this country's great lithographers. Taylor depicted mostly realistic and narrative scenes of subjects and themes that reflected his personal interests in music, architecture, religion and social justice.
(source: wikipedia.org)
Price $825.00