Jeanne Taylor
Jeanne Taylor (December 1, 1912 – December 2, 1992) was an American regionalist style painter and graphic designer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Jeanne Taylor | |
|---|---|
 Jeanne Taylor, Gérard Du Bois, and Cora Du Bois (1980) | |
| Born | December 1, 1912 |
| 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(s) | Cora Du Bois |
Early life and education
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.
Career
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]
Personal life
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]
Death
Jeanne Taylor, aged 80, died on December 2, 1992 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]
References
- Crump, Robert L. (2009). Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900-1945. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-87351-635-8. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
- Fowler, Glenn (April 11, 1991). "Cora DuBois, Harvard Professor of Anthropology, Is Dead at 87". The New York Times. p. Section B, 14. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- Seymour, Susan C. (2015). "Index: Taylor, Jeanne". Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. p. 420. ISBN 978-0-8032-6295-9.
- Levine, Robert A. (22 July 2016). "Special intelligence". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- Conant, Jennet (2011). A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-4391-6352-8.
- "Du Bois, Cora Alice, 1903–. Papers: Guide". Tozzer Library. Harvard University. 2004. Archived from the original on September 2, 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2011.