Elizabeth Taylor

Artist Details

• First Name Elizabeth
• Middle Name Mary
• Maiden Name Shuff
• Alternate Name(s) Elizabeth Mary Schuff E.S. Taylor
• Surname Taylor
• Spouse’s Full Name Frederick Dan Taylor (February 26, 1876-?); also from New Berlin, Illinois; married August 11, 1903; frequent subject of her paintings; 1910 census: an adjustor for a rubber company; owned or was with Federal Rubber Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin early 1910s
• Names and Birth Years of Children Judith Boynton Taylor Mosher (July 1921-?); 2009 living in Long Beach, California
• Birth Date December 25, 1880
• Birth Place New Berlin, Illinois
• Death Date September 14, 1969
• Death Place Buffalo, New York
• Residence(s) 1910-1913:  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  1913-mid 1920s: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1914: 1441 E. 53rd St., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1919: 1504 E. 57th St., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1921-circa 1936: 1232 E. 57^th St., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1936-circa 1967: 1438 E. 52nd St., Chicago, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) The Old Barn Studio,” Blackstone St., Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Block Printer, Charcoal, China Painter, Drawing, Etcher, Painter-Oil, Pastelist, Watercolorist
• Training 1900: Illinois Women’s College, Jacksonville, Illinois; majored in art
  1903-1904: Saturday classes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 1906-1908, 1909-1911: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (no degree conferred)
  New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. New York, New York
  Gloucester Artists Colony, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  Student of Kenyon Cox
  Student of Henry S Hubbell
  Student of Alphonse Mucha
  
• Relevant Travel summers before 1921: Provincetown, Massachusetts
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History American Watercolor Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1904, 1906-1912: Illinois State Fair, Springfield, Illinois
  
  1910, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1914: Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American, Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  November 1916: Peoria Art Institute, Peoria, Illinois [solo]
  
  1916: 11th Annual Selected Paintings by American Artists, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
  
  1917: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  November 30-December 31, 1919: Woodblock Color Prints by American Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
  
  1919, 1920: Provincetown Art Association, color woodblock prints, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  
  Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois [solo]
  
  May 6-June 1, 1921: Exhibition by a Group of Introspective Artists, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1920, 1921: Special Exhibitions of Paintings, Society of Independent Artists, New York, New York
  
  November 16-29, 1922: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by American Cor Ardens, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  circa 1970: Retrospective exhibition, Illinois National Bank, Springfield, Illinois
  
  December 15, 1973-January 20, 1974: Turn of the Century Art--Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors by Elizabeth Shuff Taylor 1881-1969, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  July 29-August 21, 1983: Provincetown Printers, A Woodcut Tradition, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  
  September 9, 1873-January 8, 1984: Provincetown Printers, A Woodcut Tradition, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  
  June 21-July 15, 1996:  Provincetown Print 1915-1996, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  
  2009: Skirting Convention: Illinois Women Artists, 1840-1940, Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, Illinois; Irma Taylor; Reindeer Christmas card
  
  Provincetown Printmakers: Modern Masters, Keny Galleries, Columbus, Ohio
• Collections Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
  
  Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
  
  Everett Cashatt (oil portrait, probably of Frederick Dan Taylor)
  
  Judith Boynton Taylor Mosher (5 oil paintings, 1 watercolor)
  
  Elizabeth Anne Preston (1 miniature oil dated circa 1906)
  
  Richard Wiener (possibly)
• Memberships Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  The Provincetown Printers, Provincetown, Massachusetts
  
  Society of Independent Artists, New York, New York
  
   
• Other Occupation(s) 1921-?: antique dealer, The Colony Shop, Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois [living room of home, then 5656 Kenwood, then circa 1936 to 1438 E. 52nd St.]
• Website(s) page on Provincetown Artist Registry website
• Biography lost some works in 1923 studio fire
  
  granddaughters:  Anne MacGregor and Elizabeth Anne Preston