E. A. Taylor
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Ernest Archibald Taylor (5 September 1874 – November, 1951), better known as E A Taylor, was a Scottish artist, an oil painter, watercolourist and etcher, and a designer of furniture, interiors and stained glass.
Life[edit]
Taylor was born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1874, the fifteenth of seventeen children of an army major. Initially apprenticed in the Glasgow shipbuilding industry on the River Clyde, he trained as an artist at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met and married Jessie M. King in 1908. They moved to Salford, where he designed for George Wragge Ltd, producing many designs for stained-glass windows, including domestic work for the Scottish engineer Sir William Arrol at Seafield House in Ayr. Between 1911 and 1914 the Taylors lived in Paris where they established an art school – the Shearling Atelier. The influence of modern French art and the Ballets Russes can be seen in Taylor's art: his style broadened and he began to make more use of dramatic outlines.
On their return to Scotland at the outbreak of the First World War, Taylor and King settled at The Greengate in the High Street in Kirkcudbright, where S J Peploe was a frequent visitor. They established a summer school at High Corrie on the Isle of Arran, as well as locally in Kirkcudbright. Taylor's work, like that of his wife, became more powerful and dramatic during their time in Galloway, closer in style to the Scottish Colourists.
A number of Taylor's paintings are in public collections, including Glasgow Museums.[1]
Style[edit]
His early watercolours are delicate and original in design. His watercolour work from around 1900–10 invoked a successful balance between Naturalism (arts) and stylisation. During these years he often painted on Arran, whilst working for the Glasgow cabinetmakers Wylie and Lochhead.
His oils, painted in broad brushstrokes, depict the rugged landscape of the Western Highlands, often with a white croft set against a dark rock face.
References[edit]
- ^ Isle of Whithorn by Ernest Archibald Taylor, BBC - Your Paintings. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
External links[edit]
- Artists Footsteps website
- EA Taylor's biography & artwork from the Permanent Collection of the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries, Scotland biography & virtual representation of EA Taylor's artwork of Gracefield Arts Centre at exploreart.co.uk
- The Kirkcudbright School
- Taylor's biography and works
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- 1874 births
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- 19th-century Scottish painters
- Scottish male painters
- 20th-century Scottish painters
- Artists from Greenock
- Scottish designers
- British furniture designers
- Scottish stained glass artists and manufacturers
- Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
- Glasgow School
- 19th-century Scottish male artists
- 20th-century Scottish male artists