Jeanne Taylor | |
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Born | |
Died | December 2, 1992 | (aged 80)
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Minnesota |
Alma mater | St. Paul School of Art |
Known for | Painter and graphic designer |
Style | Regionalism |
Partner | Cora Du Bois |
Jeanne Taylor (December 1, 1912 – December 2, 1992) was an American regionalist style painter and graphic designer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Jeanne Taylor was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on December 1, 1912.[1] 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, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[1]
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.[1]
She moved to Ceylon for work with the Office of Strategic Services.[1] 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.[1]
In 1944, anthropologist Cora Du Bois moved to Ceylon to serve as chief of research and analysis for the Army's Southeast Asia Command.[2] Taylor entered into a lesbian relationship with Du Bois and they lived together as a couple;[3][4] and in the mid-1950s they visited Paul and Julia Child in Paris.[5]
Du Bois's obituary in The New York Times referred to Taylor as "her longtime companion",[2] and her Harvard Library biography says Taylor was "her companion" and they "enjoyed an active social life".[6]
Jeanne Taylor, aged 80, died on December 2, 1992, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]