Prentiss Taylor
American artist
Born on: October 7, 1907Died on: October 7, 1991
Aged: 84 years 0 days (1008 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: United states
Birth Sign: Libra
Prentiss Taylor was an American illustrator, lithographer, and painter. Born in Washington D.C., Taylor began his art studies at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, followed by painting classes under Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and training at the Art Students League in New York City.
In 1931, Taylor began studying lithography at the League. He became a member of one of the most important printmaking societies in America at that time, the Society of American Graphic Artists.
Taylor interacted and collaborated with many writers and musicians in his time in New York in the late 1920s and early 30s.
This was in the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance. Among his close friends and colleagues were Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten.
