{"id":1436,"date":"2012-05-13T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T12:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/normantaylorgallery.co.uk\/?page_id=1436"},"modified":"2013-09-21T16:58:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T15:58:03","slug":"anne-morand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/normantaylorgallery.co.uk\/?page_id=1436","title":{"rendered":"Anne Morand"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an Art Curator<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

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I first encountered Norman Taylor\u2019s artworks in the Tulsa, Oklahoma home of his son and daughter-in-\"Ashton<\/a>law, Malcolm Taylor and Deborah Burke.\u00a0 I admired his sure hand at watercolor and the clean lines by which he delineated his subject \u2013 in this case, trains.<\/p>\n

The opportunity to see a broader range of Norman\u2019s work through this website has just increased my appreciation for this versatile and talented artist.\u00a0 I was delighted by the personal notes and cards he illustrated over the years for his grandchildren, from humorous to sweet to beautiful \u2013 what a legacy!\u00a0 One of my loves is original prints, and Norman\u2019s woodcuts, especially from the 1930s, are exquisite, with reference to the formal definition: \u201cin the sense of rare excellence of production or execution, as works of art or \"St<\/a>workmanship.\u201d\u00a0 One of the most unforgiving media, woodcut demands the ability to visualize the final image before incising the first line into the block.\u00a0 Norman\u2019s paintings of English towns and countryside \u2013 my favorites are scenes of Cornwall \u2013 evoke a nostalgia, even in someone like me who has never visited.\u00a0 Through his paintings, I am there.<\/p>\n

Most of us hope to pass through our lives with industry and success, but few of us are able to leave much of real substance to mark our existence.\u00a0 \u00a0Norman Taylor has done so, enviably, through his artwork.<\/p>\n

Anne Morand,\u00a0Curator of Art,\u00a0National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum,\u00a0Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an Art Curator   I first encountered Norman Taylor\u2019s artworks in the Tulsa, Oklahoma home of his son and daughter-in-law, Malcolm Taylor and Deborah Burke.\u00a0 I admired his sure hand at watercolor and the clean lines by which he delineated his subject \u2013 in this case, trains. The opportunity …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":973,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normantaylorgallery.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normantaylorgallery.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normantaylorgallery.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normantaylorgallery.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normantaylorgallery.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/normantaylorgallery.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/normantaylorgallery.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1436\/revisions\/1671"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normantaylorgallery.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normantaylorgallery.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}