

Figure in Landscape, 1953
Unmounted (ref: 1070)
Signed, dated, numbered 2/10 and inscribed with title
Etching
Tags: William S Taylor etching Garden painted en plein air trees women 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Tags: William S Taylor etching Garden painted en plein air trees women 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Provenance: The Artist's Studio
Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.241.
The model for this etching the artist's wife Audrey Wallis, (1919-1997).
Wallis was a sculptor and painter, was born in Whitchurch, Devon. She attended Leicester College of Art, 1936-40 and then won a scholarship to the RCA 1940-43. She was awarded a silver medal and a distinction for her work there and spent the next five years teaching art in York and Rotherham. She taught at Sheffield College of Art from 1948-80.