Artworks

Taylor’s interest in back galleries dates at least to the mid-1930s in his days when he was primarily working in etching. This subject sporadically resurfaces in etching and later in his oil paintings. Harvest of Mammon of 1948, likely politically charged, an aquatint, is perhaps the most famous of the multiples. It is not incidental that Taylor has sought out for composition a modest, working class property, the kind which only a few years after the date of his paintings was subject to the wrecker’s ball through expropriation under the guise of urban renewal. Taylor painted a large canvas measuring 30” x 24” which Galerie Walter Klinkhoff sold more than 30 years ago.