Gage Taylor

Gage Taylor (born 1942, died 2000) was a visionary artist known for his psychedelic-inspired landscapes.[1] Art critic Thomas Albright wrote, "Taylor's landscape fantasies combined profuse detail with heavier, painterly surfaces and achieved a "naive" and nostalgic flavor, like the work of a visionary Grandma Moses."[2]

Career

Taylor's art has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York; the Paris Biennalle; the Smithsonian; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the National Museum of American Art; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[3] Some of Taylor's psychedelic works were printed as posters, including Mescaline Woods and The Road, and Artweek's David Clark estimated that Taylor's reproductions (and those of his compeer Bill Martin), "are on millions of walls throughout the western world."[4] Taylor created the album cover art for The New Riders of the Purple Sage's Brujo, as well as Larry Coryell's Fairyland. Of his own work, Taylor said, "I'm not outwardly political, but I consider my painting to be about the social revolution."[5] He resided in Woodacre, California.

Baja Exhibition

In 1974, Taylor and his peer Robert Moon returned from a short tour of Baja, Mexico, “exulting about the fantastic wilderness they had seen,” according to the Village Voice’s Howard Smith.[6] From that experience, Taylor and Moon submitted a proposal which was accepted by the San Francisco Museum of Art[7] to take a monthlong expedition back to Baja along with four contemporaries: Robert Fried, Gerald Gooch, Bill Martin, and Richard Lowenberg.[8] What resulted was the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's exhibition, Baja, which Artweek's Clark heralded as "a popular success."

Education

Taylor received his BFA from University of Texas in 1965 and his MFA from Michigan State University in 1967.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Doty, Robert. "Extraordinary realities". Whitney Museum of American Art.
  2. ↑ Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History, Thomas Albright. University of California Press, 1985, page 178
  3. ↑ Blank, Chotsie. "California Artists Cook Book: A Modern Art Council project for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art". Abbeville Press.
  4. ↑ Clark, David (1 February 1975). ""The Baja Show Revisited"". Artweek 6 (5): 1, 3.
  5. ↑ Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History, Thomas Albright. University of California Press, 1985, page 178
  6. ↑ Smith, Howard. "Bringing Back Baja". The Village Voice.
  7. ↑ Emch, Tom (9 February 1975). "Impressions of Baja". California Living Magazine: 30-37.
  8. ↑ "Gerald Gooch, Richard Lowenberg, and Robert Moon on Baja (1974)". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
  9. ↑ Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History, Thomas Albright. University of California Press, 1985, page 317


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