In 1931, she founded the Taylor Art School on Holland Street in Saugatuck, a summer art school, with visiting instructors. Cora was a member of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, and is listed in the original edition of “Who’s Who of American Women”. She exhibited at the Chicago Galleries Association and other private galleries. In 1945, she won Honorable Mention for a painting exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. She also was accepted for a number of exhibitions at the Detroit Museum of Arts and won several prizes, including the American Association of University Women’s prize for her watercolor, “Abandoned”. Butler Prize, and Fine Arts Building Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago where she exhibited a number of times. Taylor won the Chicago Woman’s Aid Prize, Edward B. She was a contemporary of Georgia O’Keefe. Hote in Paris Morris Kantor, Art Students League, New York and Vance Kirkland, Denver University. Hawthorne, Provincetown, Massachusetts Andre L. She studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago with Leon Kroll and Leopold Seyffert Charles W. During her childhood, the family traveled around the United States, and France when she was 11 years old, which is where she received her first art lessons.Ĭora visited Saugatuck, Michigan, which was to become her home, on her honeymoon in 1914, with her husband, James W.

Her father was a veteran of the Civil War and passed away when she was 1 years old. In-painting concealed the lost areas, and careful cleaning was carried out across the entire surface.Ĭora Bliss Taylor was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 14, 1889. Further stabilization was done with a small iron to target the more difficult spots. This was done in a heat press which also helped to stabilize the paint film where it had cupped. After de-fit, it was re-lined with new linen to give it a stronger foundation. The second portrait had a dry paint film, and had suffered some cupping. In-fill and in-painting concealed these areas.

Cleaning revealed there were more paint losses than originally thought. The first in the pictures was originally a full portrait but was cut at some point. These two portraits by Cora Bliss Taylor (1889-1986) are of the same sitter, and we believe they were painted around twenty years apart.

Autumn Alone by Cora Taylor