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William Francis Taylor (1883 - 1970) Canadian/American - William Francis Taylor (1883 - 1970) Oil on Masonite Board, Signed, Measures ( 16 x 12 inches ) w/frame ( 21 x 17 inches ) Born in Ontario, Canada, William Taylor became a landscape painter whose reputation is associated with the New Hope School of Pennsylvania Impressionists. From 1905 to 1907, he studied in New York City at the Art Students League where John Sloan was one of his teachers. In 1908, he began another dimension to his career, publication writing, when he took the job of advertising editor for the New York Journal. He became a U.S. citizen, and in 1913 married Mary Smyth Perkins, an artist. In the early 1920s, Taylor and his wife began visiting Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and after 1925, moved to Lumberville as a result of friendship with William Lathrop, the first resident painter there of the group that became known as The Pennsylvania Impressionists. William Taylor became most associated with the 'late Pennsylvania Impressionist School, meaning the Bucks County artists who came to prominence after 1915. Condition: Good Condition