Jeanne Taylor
Jeanne Taylor, Gérard Du Bois, and Cora Du Bois (1980)
Born(1912-12-01)December 1, 1912
Saint Paul, Minnesota
DiedDecember 2, 1992(1992-12-02) (aged 80)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Minnesota
Alma materSt. Paul School of Art
Known forPainter and graphic designer
StyleRegionalism
PartnerCora Du Bois

Jeanne Taylor (December 1, 1912 – December 2, 1992) was an American regionalist style painter and graphic designer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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

  1. ^ a b c d e f 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.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Levine, Robert A. (22 July 2016). "Special intelligence". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Du Bois, Cora Alice, 1903–. Papers: Guide". Tozzer Library. Harvard University. 2004. Archived from the original on September 2, 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
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