Background
Taylor, Richard was born on September 18, 1902 in Fort William, Ontario, Canada. Son of Richard Lippincott Denison and Christine Elizabeth (Young) Taylor.
Taylor, Richard was born on September 18, 1902 in Fort William, Ontario, Canada. Son of Richard Lippincott Denison and Christine Elizabeth (Young) Taylor.
Studied under Harry Britton, Toronto, at age of 12. Student Central Technical School, Ontario College of Art (Toronto), Los Angeles School of Art and Design.
Began career by coloring lantern slides for Sunday schools. Cartoonist, Goblin magazine, Toronto, 1927. Free lance commercial artist, 1932.
Cartoonist, The New Yorker magazine, since 1935.
Creator of imaginary world in paintings, called Frodokom. Has had one-man shows of unpublished water colors at Walker Galleries (New York City), Butler Art Institute (Youngstown, Ohio), Addison Gallery (Andover, Massachusetts), Roullier Galleries (Chicago), Hudson Gallery (Detroit), Valentine Gallery (New York City), 1941.
Also exhibited at International Watercolor Exhibit, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, International Watercolor Exhibit, Brooklyn Museum, The Modern Art Society, Cincinnati, 1941. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942.
M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco (self-portrait), 1943.
Whitney Museum of America Art, 1943. Flint (Michigan) Institute of Arts (with Steig), 1943. Exhibited American-British Art Center, New York City.
Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts.
Whitney Museum, New York City. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
Represented in collections of Museum of Modern Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo), Wichita (Kansas) Museum, and several private collections. Author: The Better Taylors (book cartoons), 1944.
Home: West Redding Connecticut.
Married Maxine MacTavish, July 6, 1936.