Biografie von Anna Heyward TAYLOR (1879-1956)

Birth place: Columbia, SC

Addresses: Charleston, SC

Profession: Painter, craftsperson, decorator, block printer

Studied: South Carolina Col. for Women (A.B.); Univ. South Carolina, and with William Chase, Charles Hawthorne, DuMond; W. Lathrop; Nordfeldt; Meijer.

Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1927; WFNY, 1939; Phila. Pr. Club, 1937 (prize); Marie Sterner Gal., NYC (solo); Milch Gal., NYC; Grace Horne Gal., Boston; Gibbes Art Gal., Charleston, SC; Wash. AC; Berkshire (MA) Mus. Art; Mus. Nat. History, NYC; PAFA; NAD: SSAL; Gibbes Art Gal., 1950; Columbia (SC) Mus. Art,1950; Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

Member: NY Soc. Craftsmen; SSAL; Carolina AA; NAWA; Phila. Pr. Club; Am. Color Pr. Soc.; Women Geographers.

Work: IBM; PMA; FMA; Berkshire MA; Charleston MA; Pittsfield, MA; des./textiles, AMNH; Brooklyn (NY) Botanic Gardens Collection

Comments: Specialties: textiles; screens.

Sources: WW53; WW47; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists; Falk, Exhibition Record Series