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from Cora Bliss Taylor "Cody's World" exhibit, Aug 2019 at the OSH
The Big Pavilion From Mt. Baldhead
c.1940s | Mixed media
Creator: Cora Bliss Taylor
As a watercolorist, Cora Bliss Taylor used many devices to create interest and perspective in her works. Often she played with elements for the sake of whimsy. In this example she places the Big Pavilion, considered the center of the community through the 1950s, at the center of the composition. The bridge and jagged horizon are barely a part of the composition. The “center of the community” is the center of this “world” too.
Collection: Saugatuck-Douglas History Center
Gift of: Mary Mims
Acc # 2014.17Label
Cora Bliss Taylor
1889 - 1986
The Big Pavilion
c. 1950? | watercolor on paper
Notes: Cora Bliss Taylor was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 14, 1889. Her childhood was spent traveling around the United States. When she was 11 years old, she traveled to France where she received her first art lessons.
Cora visited Saugatuck, Michigan, which was to become her home, on her honeymoon in 1914. Her husband, James W. Taylor, a Chicago attorney, died in 1948.
summer art school with visiting instructors, on Holland
Street in Saugatuck. As Art Director of the Saugatuck Chamber of Commerce, she was instrumental in attracting many Chicago people to the Saugatuck area. She continued to teach painting to children for many years.
Cora Bliss Taylor passed away at the age of 97 on April 21, 1986.
Collection: Saugatuck Douglas History Center
Gift of: Mary Mims
2014.17