William S Taylor: At the Market, 1938

William S Taylor: At the Market, 1938 - on Art WW I

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William S Taylor:
At the Market, 1938
Framed (ref: 162)
Oil on board, 9 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (24.7 x 48.9 cm.)

This painting was undertaken in 1938 when Taylor was a student at Sheffield College of Art, as a project for a hypothetical mural.

'As I had, then, no knowledge of Art Deco or Cubism - or much else - the strong overtones of Deco in the Market Place were entirely the natural result of the style of the time. Any references in it to painting tradition were a result of individual, casual interest'. Letter from the artist to Paul Liss, 16 December 2003.