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P. Taylor  4520 Yuma St. N.W./20016  244-2805  25:II:85

ABOUT PRENTISS TAYLOR

Pre-Revolutionary War ancestry in both lines...born at 1735 F Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 13 December 1907...arrived ahead of the doctor...was "borned" by Mrs. Isabel May, later known as "Cookie Bell," cook to maternal Grandmother, Julia Gove Hottel...In kindergarten was reprimanded for drawing the white stripes of our flag with yellow crayon, had wanted to have same texture as other colors which leaving blank paper did not satisfy...Had first real art teacher, Isabel Sewell Hunter, at Sidwell's Friends School (then with Meeting Mann House at 18th & I Streets, N.W.)...Went to MacKinley Manual Traing [[Training]] School (Tech High) where there were excellent art teachers, Mr. Lamb, Alexis Many & Mary P. Shipman...also went to Saturday Morning classes under Ines Hogan at the National School of Fine & Applied Art...Study under Charles W. Hawthorne Summers of 1924 & 1935, at Provincetown, Massachusettes...at invitation of Eben F. Comins had first exhibition, shared with Earl Bragg & Stuart Davis, February 1927...went to New York City, Fall 1927, to start career to get starving days over earlier - merely prolonged them...first work to design costumes for American-Oriental Revue partly conceived & directed by Michio Ito...began spasmodic study at the Art Students League under Anne Goldthwaite, William Lorach, Lithography under Eugene Fitsch and Charles W. Locke -1929-1935... Fellow at the MacDowell Colony 1928;1929, 1930 & 1932; Yaddo 1929...published The Negro Mother 1931 and Scottsboro Limited 1932 with Langston Hughes as the Golden Stair Press...President of The Sociaety [[Society]] of Washington Printmakers 1934-1978...exhibited widely and work was acquired by museums...member of the National Academy of Design from 1948...answered long felt need for changes in scale and scene by travel in Mexico, western United States and Europe...

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MYSELF AS MEXXETIN Lithograph P.T. XLVI edition 40 March 1936 32.7 cm x 21.9 cm  12 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches

Self-portrait surrounded by personal elements - the dominant central shape is a cross-section of the TVA Norris Dam with