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Charles Jay Taylor
American, 1855-1929
Ships in the Moonlight
Oil on Canvas
32 ¼ by 42 in, w/ frame 36 ¾ by 46 ¾ in
Signed lower left

Inventory Number: 01542
1800-1899 American Marine Period 1800-1899 Seascape 19th Century

See Artist Bio below.


Charles Jay Taylor
American, 1855-1929

Charles Jay Taylor was born in New York in 1855.  He studied law at Columbia University, then art at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design (with Eastman Johnson) and City College of New York, as well as in London and Paris.

He contributed illustrations to the New York's Daily Graphic and magazines like Harpers, Puck and Punch.  His book 'Taylor Girls' gained him international acclaim.  In 1911, he became an art professor at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh where his paintings were exhibited at JJ Gillespie Gallery.  Charles J. Taylor died in 1929, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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