Henry Fitch Taylor

Henry Fitch Taylor (1853–1925) was an American artist.

Biography

He was born in Cincinnati in 1853. He studied at the Académie Julian, in Paris. He returned to America in either 1888 or in 1889, and established his studio in New York City. He was part of the Cos Cob Art Colony.[1]

He married Clara Sidney Potter Davidge, the daughter of Henry Codman Potter in 1912. They moved to her estate on Staten Island.[2]

In 1921 his wife drowned.[3]

He died in 1925.

References

  1. ^ "Henry Fitch Taylor". Ask Art. http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=24951. Retrieved 2009-02-16. "Henry Fitch Taylor, born in Cincinnati in 1853, was the oldest American artist to experiment with modernist painting. He studied at the Académie Julian, in Paris, beginning 1884 and also worked at Barbizon, possibly encouraged to go to France by Joseph Jefferson whose popular performing troupe Taylor had joined." 
  2. ^ "Mrs. Davidge Wife Of Artist Taylor. Eldest Daughter of Bishop Potter Married to Henry Fitch Taylor on March 20". New York Times. March 29, 1913. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50A1FFC3C5B13738DDDA00A94DB405B838DF1D3. Retrieved 2011-11-15. "Mrs. Clara Sidney Davidge, the eldest daughter of the late Bishop Henry Codman Potter, was quietly married on Thursday, March 20, to Henry Fitch Taylor ..." 
  3. ^ "Bishop Potter's Daughter Drowns. Body of Mrs. Henry Fitch Taylor Discovered in Marsh Near Her Long Island Home. Had A Spinal Ailment. Belief Is That She Fell Into the Mud and Could Not Free Herself." (PDF). New York Times. November 8, 1921. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0DE2DB1431EF33A2575BC0A9679D946095D6CF. Retrieved 2009-08-10. "The body of Mrs. Clara Sydney Taylor, a daughter of the late Bishop Potter, was found on Sunday morning in a marsh beside a private road leading from the cottage where she was living to the home of her brother, Alonzo Potter, at Smithtown, Suffolk County, L.I."