Known for Design, linoleum prints, landscape painting
Biography: A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Anna Heyward Taylor was born in 1879 to an old and distinguished family. After studying with William Merritt Chase as part of his summer school (in 1903 Holland, and 1904, London), she traveled extensively, and was in the far east at the outbreak of World War I. In 1916 and 1920 she joined William Beebe's expeditions to British Guiana. She spent the summers of 1915 and 1916 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she learned the white-line method of woodblock prints. She lived in New York during the 1920s, but in 1929 she settled in Charleston where she emerged as one of the leading figures of the Charleston Renaissance, a multicultural movement that set in motion the preservation and renewal of the old Colonial city. She continued to travel and in 1935-1936 went to Mexico. Taylor's strengths were colorful wood block prints of exotic flowers and street scenes of Charleston. She also painted watercolors on her travels. She provided linoleum block prints that served as the illustrations for Chalmers Murray's volume on South Carolina agriculture, This Our Land, which was published in 1949.

Medium: Watercolor

Dimensions: H:14in W:13in

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