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 Margaret Jean Taylor
Born in Austin, Texas, Margaret Jean Taylor was recognized early for her artistic talent, which was encouraged by teachers and family. She studied art history at Mount Holyoke College and drawing and painting the figure at the University of Texas in the summers. After graduating college in 1957, Margaret studied with Hans Hofmann, the important abstract artist and teacher, in Provincetown, MA. This experience was crucial in developing her feeling for color relationships and understanding pictoral space, and would continue to inform her work in painting the landscape.
Margaret lived in Montana, Chicago and New York City before settling in New England. She has maintained an etching studio since the early 1970s, and been engaged in lithography and woodcut since her 1992 M.F.A. For more than a decade her focus has been landscapes of the "Great Spaces" of the American Southwest.
M.F.A. The University of Massachusetts (1992)
M.A. Mount Holyoke College. (1972)
Art Students League, New York City (part-time, 1964-66)
Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, summer 1957
Everett Spruce, University of Texas (summers, 1954-56)
Bernard Chaet, Rico Lebrun, Gabor Peterdi, Yale Summer Art School (1956)
Mount Holyoke College, (1953-1967, B.A. 1957)
Born and grew up in Austin, Texas
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2006 |
Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA. Without Intent: new prints |
| 2001 |
MJT Gallery 447 West St, Amherst, MA. New England & American Southwest |
| 2000 |
Great Spaces, A.I.R. Gallery II. 40 Wooster St. NYC |
| 1995 |
Shadows From a Single Tree, Eli March Gallery, Amherst College |
| 1994 |
Two Hands Burnett Gallery, The Jones Library, Amherst, MA |
| 1993 |
New Mexico Landscapes, Amherst, MA |
| 1992 |
University of Massachusetts M.F.A. Exhibition of color lithographs, color woodcuts, color etchings &
paintings. Herter Gallery. |
| 1987 |
The Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College: Exhibition of watercolors and plans for the hand-printed book:
From Amherst to Cashmere, and including a copy of the finished book. |
| 1984 |
Western New England College: Exhibit of monotypes & drawings |
| 1980 |
Valley Landscapes. Amherst, MA |
| 1979 |
Margaret Taylor, 47 Bond Street, NYC |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2004 |
VISIONS Gallery, Albany, NY. Polymer photogravure prints. |
| 2002 |
Generations III - A.I.R. Gallery, Wooster St, N.Y.C. |
| 1999 |
Five Artist Invitational, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA |
| 1997 |
25th Anniversary Invitational, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC |
| 1996 |
68th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA
Juror: Olga Viso, assistant curator, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. |
| 1995 |
60th Annual National Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY
Juror: Holland Cotter |
| 1993 |
Valley Women Artists, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA |
| 1991 |
Works on Paper, Rye Art Center Rye, NY; Juror, Grace Glueck |
| 1986 |
Collected Visions: Women Artists at the Bunting Institute, Boston, MA |
| 1981 |
Two Women, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA |
| 1980 |
Horizons, Danco Gallery Florence, MA |
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The Figure, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY |
PUBLICATIONS
| 1986 |
From Amherst to Cashmere: Ten color etchings of four plates each for twelve poems of Emily Dickinson. Bound in silk. 50 copies. Boxed, signed, and numbered. |
| 1979 |
Wild Swans: Portfolio of ten etchings for sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay. 50 copies. Boxed, signed, and numbered. |
| 1976 |
Sketchbook 1976: Boxed portfolio of 20 landscape etchings. 35 copies. |
| 1974 |
Landscapes: Eight figure/landscape etchings. Ragnarok Press, Holly Springs, MS. 50 copies, bound. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 2002 |
Bander, Nina. “Amherst artist explores junction of earth and sky,” The Greenfield Recorder, A&E p. 3, January 10. |
| 1998 |
Guerra, Jonnie, “Dickinson Adaptions in the Arts and the Theater,” from The Emily Dickinson Handbook, Gudrun Grabher et al., eds., University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 394, 395. |
| 1997 |
Voices and Visions: Arts at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, 1962-97, Cambridge, MA, p. 16. |
| 1994 |
Benvenuto, Christine. “Maple Trees and Moon Shadows,” The Amherst Bulletin, Oct. 7. |
| 1990 |
Sheridan, Lee. Art New England, vol.11 #8 Watson, Bruce. “Gallery Offers Visions of Amherst,” Amherst Bulletin, 6/13 |
| 1988 |
Yamakawa, Tamaaki. “Emily Dickinson and Paintings: Margaret Taylor’s Etchings for Dickinson’s Poems,” English Literature Review, Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto, Japan, vol. #32, pp. 73-90. |
| 1986 |
Collected Visions: Women Artists at the Bunting Institute, catalogue pp. 92, 93. |
| 1985 |
1985 Wright, Patricia. “Looking into Emily Dickinson” Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA, May 15. |
| 1979 |
Cotter, Holland. New Your Arts Journal, Jan-Feb 1979, p. 31. |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
| Handmade books, printed by the artist, and signed “Margaret Taylor” |
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Houghton Library, Harvard University |
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Mount Holyoke College |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (print collection) |
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University of Texas, Harry Ransom Research Center, Austin |
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Forbes Library, Northampton, MA |
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New York Public Library (print collection) |
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University of North Carolina |
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Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
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University of Massachusetts (drawing) |
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Holyoke Community College (woodcut) |
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Private Collections |
GRANTS/AWARDS
| 2001 |
Art Week, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine. |
| 1996 |
First Prize in Painting, 68th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA
Juror, Olga Viso, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. |
| 1992 |
Residence at Art Colony for Women, Poughkeepsie, NY |
| 1987 |
Arts Lottery Grant, Town of Amherst, MA |
| 1986 |
“1905 Fellowship” from Mount Holyoke College |
| 1985 |
Arts Lottery Grant, Town of Amherst, MA |
| 1970-72 |
Graduate Fellowship, The Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College. |
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