Jeanne Taylor (1912 - 1992)

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Jeanne Taylor was an American regionalist style painter and graphic designer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. She attended the University of Minnesota, the St. Paul School of Art and the Art Students League of New York.

 

Taylor was a leader of the Regionalist movement in Minnesota, painting reassuring images of the local heartlands during the Great Depression. Her work is displayed in the Minnesota Historical Center. Exhibitions include: Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, American University, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art ("Red Barns" painting is very similar to the one offered for sale here!) and, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Taylor's work is also in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.

 

She was a supervisor for the Index of American Design during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and a member of the Minnesota WPA Federal Art Project. In 1937, she received an honorable mention for her landscape presented at the Minnesota State Fair.

 

She moved to Ceylon for work with the Office of Strategic Services. Afterwards, Taylor worked in Graphic Design in New York City and was an art and shop teacher at the Little Red School House before retiring to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

Jeanne Taylor, aged 80, died on December 2, 1992, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.