Lura Ann Taylor (American, 1906-1990) A native of Smithville, Missouri, Lura Ann Taylor (sometimes Lura Ann Hedrick Taylor) studied at Southern Methodist University and Texas Woman's University. A member of various art organizations in Dallas, in 1939 she was one of eight women who founded the Printmakers Guild, later called Texas Printmakers, to challenge the male-dominated Lone Star Printmakers; the others were Lucile Land Lacy, Bertha Landers, Stella LaMond, Mary Lightfoot, Verda Ligon, Blanche McVeigh, and Coreen May Spellman. She exhibited widely in Texas, and died in Dallas. Taylor's wood engraving Three Old Hens of c. 1947 is owned by the National Gallery of Art. Taylor was the co-author of The Development of Pottery, published by Texas State University for Women in 1937, and illustrated a handful of histories of Texas written by Bertha Mae Cox and published in the 1940s. Studied: Southern Methodist University (B.A. 1926, B.S. 1930); Texas State College for Women, Denton (M.A., 1937); Olive Donaldson; Ralph S. Rountree; Elsinore Massey Addis; Franklin Booth; Thomas Fogarty; Phoenix Art Institute with Lauros Monroe Phoenix; William Gerth; Charles Livingston Bull; Allie Tennant; John L. Scott Williams in New York; Mary Marshall; Dorothy LaSelle; Alexandre Hogue. Member: Frank Reaugh Art Club; Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers (president, 1943-1945); Dallas Artists League; Texas Artists Group; Dallas Art Association; Texas Artists Group; Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts. Exhibitions:Student Exhibition, Southern Methodist University Dallas, 1929Landscape; Southern Methodist University Student and Alumni Exhibition, Fort Stockton, 1930Dallas woman's Club, 1931Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition/Dallas County Exhibition, 1931In the Twisty Twiney Woods, 1932Farm Yard (pastel) (prize), Pricklies, Near Bowie, Farm Yard (print), Summer Distance, (pottery), 1933Redbud, Miter Peak, Guadalupe Mountain Scene, 1937Near Bowie (pastel) (prize), 1941Church Near Mexico City (lithograph), 1942Desert Rose (print), 1944Three Little Fishes (lithograph), Galveston (print), 1945Soldiers Too (stencil), 1948Before the Fiesta (watercolor), The Egg and I (woodblock), Three Old Hens (woodblock); Frank Reaugh Art Club, 1932Pricklies, 1934Oak Cliff Society of Fine Art, 1932, 1937Toadstools; Thirty Dallas Artists, Dallas School of Creative Arts, 1935Oil Storage Tanks; Southern Methodist University Alumni 1935Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, 1936Mushrooms; Dallas Little Theater, 1936Mushrooms; State Fair of Texas, Dallas, 1939, Arkansas Farm; No-Jury Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1938, Tulips, 1939, Dock; Five States Exhibition, Tulsa, 1940, Mushrooms; Dallas Art Carnival, 1940; East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, 1941; Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition, 1941, Near Timber Line (lithograph); Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas, 1942, Three Little Fishes (woodblock), 1943, Vine and Pine (woodblock), 1945, Three Old Hens (woodblock), Soldiers Too (stencil); Printmakers Guild /Texas Printmakers, 1941, Church Near Mexico City, Near Timberline, 1942, Galveston Doorway (lithograph), Three Little Fishes (woodblock), 1943, Share Cropper's House (etching), 1944, Vine and Pine (woodblock), 1945, Stairway (lithograph), 1947, The Egg and I (watercolor), 1948, 1951, 1953; Texas Artists Group, 1945, Mushrooms; Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts, 1947; National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York, Three Old Hens; National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Laguna Beach, California; Dallas Woman's Forum. Murals: The Development of Pottery, Crozier Technical High School (joint with Mary Lightfoot). Collections: McMurry University, Abilene, Desert Rose.