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Taylor, John Benjamin

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Brief BioCanadian, 1917-1970 NationalityCanadian Description

J. B. ('Jack') Taylor was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in 1917. After initial art training in his home province, Taylor attended the Arts Student's League in New York in 1936 and 1937. During the Second World War, Taylor enlisted in the Royal Canadian Airforce and was posted as a Draftsman in Moncton, New Brunswick and Edmonton.


After graduating with honours from the Ontario College of Art in 1947, J. B. Taylor began teaching in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta. Taylor 'continued for a time to paint Eastern Canadian subject matter' (J. Allison Forbes, J. B. Taylor, A memorial exhibition organized by the The Edmonton Art Gallery and the University of Alberta Department of Art and Design, 1973). These descriptive works, with conventional subjects and compositional elements were to gradually change.


J. B. Taylor's teaching commitment also included classes with the Community Art program for the University's Department of Extension and at the Banff School of Fine Arts. These years of traveling throughout Alberta enabled Taylor to acquaint himself intimately with the landscape of the province, and in particular the mountains and glaciers, that were to provide the themes and inspiration for his mature work as an artist. These later works exhibit a sense of the landscape as texture, light and rhythm, verging on abstraction.


J. B. Taylor, passed away suddenly in 1970, cutting short his teaching and painting career.


Name Taylor, John Benjamin Brief Bio Canadian, 1917-1970 Nationality Canadian Description

J. B. ('Jack') Taylor was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in 1917. After initial art training in his home province, Taylor attended the Arts Student's League in New York in 1936 and 1937. During the…

J. B. ('Jack') Taylor was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in 1917. After initial art training in his home province, Taylor attended the Arts Student's League in New York in 1936 and 1937. During the Second World War, Taylor enlisted in the Royal Canadian Airforce and was posted as a Draftsman in Moncton, New Brunswick and Edmonton.


After graduating with honours from the Ontario College of Art in 1947, J. B. Taylor began teaching in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta. Taylor 'continued for a time to paint Eastern Canadian subject matter' (J. Allison Forbes, J. B. Taylor, A memorial exhibition organized by the The Edmonton Art Gallery and the University of Alberta Department of Art and Design, 1973). These descriptive works, with conventional subjects and compositional elements were to gradually change.


J. B. Taylor's teaching commitment also included classes with the Community Art program for the University's Department of Extension and at the Banff School of Fine Arts. These years of traveling throughout Alberta enabled Taylor to acquaint himself intimately with the landscape of the province, and in particular the mountains and glaciers, that were to provide the themes and inspiration for his mature work as an artist. These later works exhibit a sense of the landscape as texture, light and rhythm, verging on abstraction.


J. B. Taylor, passed away suddenly in 1970, cutting short his teaching and painting career.

Website http://www.jbtaylor.ca/

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"People Details - Taylor, John Benjamin, University of Alberta Museums Art Collection." University of Alberta Museums Search Site, https://search.museums.ualberta.ca/g/6-2573/11-2231. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Works by this Artist

There are 17 works by this artist.

1986.13 - Rock Slide

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1955

1987.13.2 - Memories of Rome

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1961

1984.19 - Above Lake O'Hara

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1961

1976.45.7 - Snow Patch, Sunshine

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1951

1975.23.2 - Florence Henry

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1963

1975.23.1 - Maimie Shaw Simpson

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1959

1974.29 - H.E. Smith

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1965

1974.20.3 - Dr. Rooney

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1959

1965.41 - Red Banks, P.E.I.

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1951

1966.2 - House In Pompeii

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1966

1971.5.1 - Portrait of Dr. J.M. MacEachran

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1970

1976.9.1 - Dr. William Paul

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1970

1976.9.2 - Dr. John Ross Vant

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1970

2007.18.1 - Baths of Caracella Roma

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1964

2010.7.1 - Nordegg Road

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1958

2014.6.1 - Church of Santa Fosca, Torcello Italy

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1957

2022.5.1 - Oesa II

University of Alberta Museums Art Collection

Object Typepainting ArtistTaylor, John Benjamin Date Made1964