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Richard Deane Taylor
self portrait (pencil on board)
Born
Meyer Tuchschneider

(1925-01-13)January 13, 1925
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedNovember 21, 2014(2014-11-21) (aged 89)
New York City, New York, U.S.
SpouseHelena Roine-Taylor
Children2

Richard Deane Taylor (January 13, 1925 – November 21, 2014) was an American illustrator, commercial artist, educator, portrait painter, and fine artist whose career spanned Golden Age comic books, editorial illustration, advertising art, and photorealist painting. His artwork appeared in publications including Collier's, TRUE, National Geographic, Holiday, Sport, and Life, and in advertising campaigns for companies including Hiram Walker, Dewar's, Johnson & Johnson, and Air France. A 1951 portrait by Taylor of President Herbert Hoover entered the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.[1][2][3][4]

Early life and education

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Taylor was born Meyer Tuchschneider in New York City on January 13, 1925[3].[5]

During the early 1940s he worked as a staff cartoonist for Fawcett Publications[1][2], working alongside artists including C. C. Beck and Marc Swayze[6] during the Golden Age of comic books. In an interview with Hamerlink, Taylor recounted his work on the story Captain Marvel and the Lie Detector during his time at Fawcett Publications[3].[7]

Taylor served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946, where he worked in the art department of the Provost Marshal General's School within the Corps of Military Police, producing posters, magazines, training charts, and instructional visual materials.

Following his military service in World War II, Taylor studied painting and illustration in Paris, attending the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière[1][2][3]. While in postwar Paris, Taylor participated in exhibitions involving American veterans living in Paris following World War II.

Editorial illustration

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By the early 1950s Taylor was working as a commercial illustrator and editorial artist for nationally distributed magazines. In 1953 he was featured in American Artist magazine as part of Strathmore Artist Papers' Prominent Artist Users series, which described his work for Fawcett Publications, his studies in Paris, and his editorial illustrations for Collier's[2].

Taylor created cover and interior illustrations for Collier's and other magazines between 1951 and 1955, including portraits of Winston Churchill,[8] Herbert Hoover,[9] Arch Ward,[10] Eisenhower,[11] Princess Margaret & Margaret Truman,[12] Al Lang,[13] Jack (Doc) Kearns,[14] as well as Cold War-themed political artwork.[15]

Taylor created the cover illustration for the October 27, 1951 issue of Collier's, titled Preview of the War We Do Not Want, depicting a hypothetical Soviet occupation scenario during the early Cold War.[15]

The illustration was later reproduced by Cambridge University Press as the cover image for historian David S. Foglesong's The American Mission and the Evil Empire.[16]

Taylor created political portrait illustrations for nationally distributed magazines during the 1950s, including cover artwork related to the 1956 United States presidential election for TRUE: The Man's Magazine.[17]

Commercial advertising

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Taylor created illustration work for national advertising campaigns during the 1950s and 1960s. Contemporary agency correspondence and published advertisements document commissions executed for major advertising firms including Young & Rubicam, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO), Cunningham & Walsh, Foote, Cone & Belding, and The Rossin Creative Group.

His commercial illustration work appeared in print and billboard campaigns associated with Hiram Walker, Dewar's Whiskey, Johnson & Johnson, Folgers Coffee,[18] Air France,[19][20] Gulf Oil, Esso Standard Oil, DuPont Chemicals, White Owl Cigars,[21] Schaefer Beer, General Electric, Viceroy Cigarettes,[22] and AT&T Yellow Pages, including artwork associated with the Walking Fingers campaign for the New York Telephone Company[1].[23]

Taylor produced portrait illustrations for Hiram Walker's Man, this is whiskey! Imperial Whiskey campaign, including advertisements featuring athletes, outdoorsmen, sailors, and authors such as Roscoe Reams,[24] Chuck Meyer,[25] Louis L'Amour,[26] and Lou Whitman.[27]

Advertising agency records from Foote, Cone & Belding later documented that Taylor's Imperial Whiskey artwork was reproduced in Life magazine and in 24-sheet outdoor advertising posters during 1955 and 1956.

Taylor also created advertising artwork for Dewar's Scotch Whiskey campaigns featuring Scottish ceremonial imagery, which appeared in publications including Playboy and Time magazines among others during the 1960s.[28]

In 2015, an article describing Taylor's commercial art career later appeared in HuffPost under the title The Last of the Real Mad Men[4].

His professional experience was referenced in J. I. Biegeleisen's Careers and Opportunities in Commercial Art: A Survey of All Fields.[29]

Historical illustration and cartography

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Taylor collaborated with historian and author Dan Kurzman, providing maps and illustration work for several historical publications including Race for Rome,[30] Genesis 1948,[31] Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis,[32] and Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire.[33] Acknowledgments sections in Kurzman's books credited Taylor for drawing maps and historical illustrations used throughout the publications.

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The 1951 portrait painted by Taylor of President Herbert Hoover for the cover of Collier's August 11, 1951[9] was chosen for the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.[34]

Churchill portraiture

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Taylor's September 22, 1951 Collier's cover portrait of Winston Churchill[8] was later reused in historical publications and biographies.

Taylor's Churchill portrait was used as the front jacket illustration for Churchill by Himself, edited by historian Richard M. Langworth and published by Ebury Press / Random House.[35]

A portrait illustration by Taylor was also used for the French edition of Boris Johnson's Churchill biography Winston: Comment un seul homme a fait l'histoire.[36]

Teaching and fine art

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Taylor taught commercial art at the High School of Art & Design in New York City from 1963 to 1989, serving as acting chairman during the 1980–1981 academic year. He also served as an adjunct lecturer in commercial art at New York City Community College of the City University of New York from 1967 to 1974[1].

During the later decades of his career Taylor focused primarily on fine art painting, particularly photorealism, while continuing portrait and still-life work in oils, acrylics, and gouache[3].

Exhibitions and recognition

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Taylor exhibited in galleries and exhibitions in both the United States and France. His work appeared in exhibitions at the Kenny Gallery in New York, the Parkersburg Art Center in West Virginia, the Very Special Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Audubon Artists Annual Exhibition in New York.

In 1957 Taylor received an Honorable Mention from the Art Directors Club of Chicago for a 24-sheet outdoor advertising poster.[37]

Death

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Taylor died on November 21, 2014, at the age of 89[5].

Family

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Taylor married Helena Roine in September 1963. Together they had two children[5].

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Who's Who of American Comics".
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Prominent Artist Users of Strathmore". American Artist. Vol. 17, no. 7. American Artist Publishing Company. September 1953. p. 13.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Hamerlinck, P.C. (1999). "The Richard Deane Taylor Interview". Alter Ego. 3 (2). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 40–43. ; Hamerlinck, P.C. (2006). "The Richard Deane Taylor Interview". Alter Ego Collection. 1. Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 82–85. ISBN 9781893905597.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  4. 1 2 Masana, G.E. (October 30, 2015). "The Last of the Real Mad Men". HuffPost. BuzzFeed, Inc.
  5. 1 2 3 "Richard Deane Taylor Obituary". New York Times.
  6. ↑ Swayze, Marc (January 2008). "We Didn't Know... It Was the Golden Age!". Alter Ego (75). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 67–68.
  7. ↑ C. C. Beck (w), Al Mclean (a), Richard Deane Taylor (i). "Captain Marvel Adventures" Captain Marvel and the Lie Detector., vol. 4, no. 23, pp. 4–18 (April 28, 1943). Fawcett Publications Inc..
  8. 1 2 "Cover Illustration (Portrait of Winston Churchill)". Collier's Magazine. Vol. 128, no. 12. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. September 22, 1951. p. cover.
  9. 1 2 "Cover Illustration (Portrait of Herbert Hoover)". Collier's Magazine. Vol. 128, no. 7. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. August 11, 1951. p. cover.
  10. ↑ Meany, Tom (August 12, 1950). "Arch Dreams Up the Dream Games (Article Illustration)". Collier's Magazine. Vol. 126, no. 7. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. p. 22.
  11. ↑ "Cover Illustration (Fishing Flies)". Collier's Magazine. Vol. 135, no. 8. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. April 15, 1955. p. cover.
  12. ↑ "Cover Illustration (Portraits of Princess Margaret and Margaret Truman)". Collier's Magazine. Vol. 128, no. 26. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. December 29, 1951. p. cover.
  13. ↑ Graham, Frank (March 1951). "One for the Book (Article Illustration)". Sport Magazine. Vol. 10, no. 3. Macfadden Publications. pp. 60–62.
  14. ↑ Graham, Frank (June 1951). "One for the Book (Article Illustration)". Sport Magazine. Vol. 10, no. 6. Macfadden Publications. pp. 54–56.
  15. 1 2 "Cover Illustration (Preview of the War We Do Not Want)". Collier's Magazine. Vol. 128, no. 17. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. October 27, 1951. p. cover.
  16. ↑ Foglesong, David S. (2007). The American Mission and the "Evil Empire". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-85590-7.
  17. ↑ "Cover Illustration (Portraits of Eisenhower and Stevenson)". True Magazine. Vol. 36, no. 234. November 1956. p. cover.
  18. ↑ "Folgers Coffee: Distinctive! It's Mountain Grown: Billboard". USA: Foote, Cone & Belding. 1956.
  19. ↑ "Air France : World's Largest Airline (Double Page Advertisement)". The National Geographic Magazine. Vol. CXIII, no. 3. National Geographic Society. March 1958. pp. 60–61. ; "Air France : World's Largest Airline (Double Page Advertisement)". Holiday Magazine. Vol. 23, no. 4. The Curtis Publishing Company. April 1958. pp. 124–125.
  20. ↑ "Air France Jet: Paris: Billboard". USA: J. Walter Thompson. 1956.
  21. ↑ "White Owl Cigars: This Christmas you bet I won't forget! (Advertisement)". Life Magazine. Vol. 35, no. 25. Time, Inc. December 21, 1953. p. 59.
  22. ↑ "The Man Who Thinks For Himself, Knows... Viceroy (Advertisement)". Life Magazine. Vol. 45, no. 8. Time, Inc. August 25, 1958. p. 97.
  23. ↑ "Yellow Pages: Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: Billboard". USA: Cunningham & Walsh. 1962.
  24. ↑ "Roscoe Reams, Man, This is Whiskey (Advertisement)". Life Magazine. Vol. 39, no. 14. Hiram Walker. October 3, 1955. p. 109.
  25. ↑ "Chuck Meyer, Man, This is Whiskey (Advertisement)". Life Magazine. Vol. 39, no. 3. Time, Inc. July 18, 1955. p. 68.
  26. ↑ "Louis L'amour, Man, This is Whiskey (Advertisement)". Life Magazine. Vol. 40, no. 6. Time, Inc. February 6, 1956. p. 136.
  27. ↑ "Lou Whitman, Man, This is Whiskey (Advertisement)". Life Magazine. Vol. 41, no. 3. Time, Inc. July 16, 1956. p. 101.
  28. ↑ "Welcome Scotch The World Over! : Dewar's Highlander in Front of Rome's Colosseum (Advertisement)". Metropolitan Opera Program 1967-68. Saturday Review, Inc. 1967. p. backcover.
  29. ↑ Biegeleisen, J. I. (1963). Careers and Opportunities in Commercial Art: A Survey of All Fields. Wilshire Book Company. p. 91. LCCN 63-8608.
  30. ↑ Kurzman, Dan (1975). Race for Rome. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-06555-8.
  31. ↑ Kurzman, Dan (1970). Genesis 1948. LCCN 77-96925.
  32. ↑ Kurzman, Dan (1990). Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis. ISBN 0-689-12007-9.
  33. ↑ Kurzman, Dan (1983). Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-23094-8.
  34. ↑ "Herbert Clark Hoover". Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
  35. ↑ Langworth, Richard M. (2008). Churchill by Himself. Ebury Press. ISBN 9780091918521. Front jacket illustration by Richard Deane Taylor, 1951
  36. ↑ Johnson, Boris (2015). Winston: Comment un seul homme a fait l'histoire. Éditions Stock. ISBN 978-2-234-07966-3. Illustration de couverture : © Richard Deane Taylor
  37. ↑ "1956 Poster Annual Sponsored by the Art Directors Club of Chicago". Outdoor Advertising Poster Annual. Outdoor Advertising Inc: 42. 1956.
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