Grace Martin Taylor

Known for her cubist imagery in painting and printmaking, Grace Martin was born in Morgantown, West Virginia. She was a life-long student, learning from such important artists as her elder distant cousin, Blanche Lazzell and the German-born Hans Hofmann. In 1929 she visited Provincetown at the invitation of Lazzell, who coached her in the technique of white-line block printing, also called “Provincetown Printmaking”. Although she always considered herself primarily a painter, she began making white-line woodcuts, renewing her passion in the arts and establishing her career as an artist.

She returned to Provincetown every summer for the following 28 years, in which she became a founder of the American Color Print Society and the Woodcut Society in Kansas City. However, her home-base remained in Charleston, West Virginia, where she had a fruitful career in education, teaching at the Mason College of Music and Fine Arts (now the University of Charleston), where she taught for over 40 years, eventually becoming the dean and retiring in 1968.

Exhibitions: National Museum of American Art – Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts -Washington D.C., Washington Watercolor Club -Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art – Washington, D.C., Boston Art Club – Boston, MA., Museum of Fine Arts – Boston MA., Provincetown Art Association – Provincetown, MA., Philadelphia Museum of Art – Philadelphia, PA., Brooklyn Museum of Art –  Brooklyn, NY., Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, NY., The Woodcut Society in Kansas City, Missouri, Oakland Art Gallery – Oakland, CA., Mint Museum – Charlotte, NC., Museum of Fine Arts -Richmond, VA., The Greenbrier – White Sulphur Springs, WV., Charleston Art Gallery – Charleston, WV., West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV., British Museum – London, England.