Art

Item Description

1 Print of "Negri's Occidental" Artist William F. Taylor.

In 2016 Taylor had a show at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Born in 1927, Taylor has lived most of his life in Sonoma County--except for two decades in Los Angeles, where he worked in graphic design. A naturalist, he studied zoology at Berkeley, graduating with a B.A. in 1951 and has been a revered contributor of bird specimens to the Academy of Science in San Francisco since the 1940's. The Los Angeles paintings are almost all of buildings on Sunset Boulevard as they looked in the 1960's and 1970's, including Jerry Lewis’s night club, the Playboy Club, Gazzarris, and the Trocadero Pharmacy. In San Francisco Bill painted the homes, apartments, and hospitals from the hillsides opposite, as well as the DeYoung museum before the big remodel and after.

Bill Taylor’s work represents decades of hard work and devotion, as well as representing a deft skill as both draftsman and colorist. He works in oil, acrylic, and watercolors. His many watercolors of the streets and buildings in Occidental, also covering almost five decades, are unique and accomplished with extraordinary simplicity and elegance.

Donated by: Bodega Landmark Studio

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