Lura Ann Taylor

Lura Ann Taylor (sometimes Lura Ann Hedrick Taylor or Lura Ann Taylor Hedrick) (1906–1990) was an American printmaker.

A native of Smithville, Missouri, Taylor studied at Southern Methodist University and Texas Woman's University. A member of various art organizations in Dallas,^[1] in 1939 she was one of eight women who founded the Printmakers Guild, later called Texas Printmakers, to challenge the male-dominated Lone Star Printmakers; the others were Lucile Land Lacy, Bertha Landers, Stella LaMond, Mary Lightfoot, Verda Ligon, Blanche McVeigh, and Coreen Mary Spellman.^[2] She exhibited widely in Texas, and died in Dallas.^[1] Taylor's wood engraving Three Old Hens of c. 1947 is owned by the National Gallery of Art,^[3] where they are part of the donation made to the museum by Reba and Dave Williams of the Print Research Foundation in 2009.^[4] Taylor was the co-author of The Development of Pottery, published by Texas State University for Women in 1937, and illustrated a handful of histories of Texas written by Bertha Mae Cox and published in the 1940s.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Paula L. Grauer; Michael R. Grauer (1999). Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800–1945. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 55–. ISBN 978-0-89096-861-1.
^ Katie Robinson Edwards (1 July 2014). Midcentury Modern Art in Texas. University of Texas Press. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-0-292-75659-5.
^ "Three Old Hens". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
^ "Reba and Dave Williams Collection". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
^ "Lura Ann Taylor – Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Lura Ann Taylor". www.askart.com. Retrieved 6 March 2018.

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