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SELECTED WORKS BY Henry Taylor

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Henry Taylor
I Belong

2011

Mixed media

234 x 38 x 28 1/2 cm
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Henry Taylor
Walking with Vito

2008

Acrylic on canvas

167.5 x 244 cm
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Henry Taylor
Ly For Me

2010

Acrylic on canvas

52 x 81 cm
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Henry Taylor
What Can I Say?

2011

Acrylic on canvas

197 x 241 cm
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Henry Taylor
My Brother Gene the Former "Tunnel Rat"

2010

Acrylic on canvas

183 x 152 ½ cm
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Henry Taylor
Miss Kelley

2010

Acrylic on canvas

197 ½ x 243 cm
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Henry Taylor
Chocolate Lover

2006

Oil and graphite on canvas

124 x 154.5 cm
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Henry Taylor
She Mixed

2008

Acrylic on canvas

198 x 241.2 cm
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Henry Taylor
Bobby Hutton Rests

2008

Acrylic on canvas

229 x 170 cm
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Henry Taylor
Untitled (Finger)

2008

Acrylic on canvas

246.5 x 195.5 cm

ARTICLES

A Visual Equivalent of the Blues, in Warm Shades

The putative gap between art and life is a pernicious myth. Painting in a studio is no less a form of life than, say, occupying Wall Street. Consider the exuberantly vital art of Henry Taylor, whose paintings are in an exhibition named for him at MoMA PS1.

Mr. Taylor, who lives in Los Angeles, paints fast, loose and sensuously on canvases great and small. Portraiture is his work’s center of gravity. His subjects include friends, relatives, acquaintances from the art world and off the street, and heroes from the worlds of sports and politics. Along the way he takes in downbeat cityscapes patrolled by cop cars and envisions allegories of spiritual trauma in the Land of the Free.

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Source: nytimes.com

henry taylor: art review, october 2009

Published October 2009
by Chris Sharp

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Source: Art Review