Taber Sears is a Boston, MA born artist most known for his marine, landscape, and portrait paintings. He often worked with watercolor and mural projects. He was who was a former president of the Municipal Art Society. He received his professional training at the Boston Museum Fine Arts School and at the Julian Academy in Paris under Jean Laurens, later continuing his studies in Florence and Rome. Among the mural paintings by Mr. Sears in New York churches are "The Transfiguration," in St. James Protestant Episcopal Church; "The Consecration of Bishop Manning," in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; "Adoration of the Magi," a triptych in the Church of the Intercession; "Te Deum," on the reredos of the Old First Presbyterian Church; "The Resurrection," in St. Thomas; and "The Sermon on the Mount," in the Church of the Ascension. He also contributed a dozen or more important murals to churches in other cities. Mr. Sears held several one-man water-color shows in New York, and his oilshave been exhibited at the National Academy of Design. In 1928 he received the Delano prize for water-colors at the New York Water Color Club. He was a former treasurer of the Society of Mural painters, at a time when E.H. Blashfield, Kenyon Cox and John LaFarge were active in the work of the group. He was a member for many years of the Municipal Art Society of New York and was its president in 1923-1926; a director, former president, and treasurer of the American Artists Professional League, a member of the American Water Color Society, Audubon Artists and Allied Artists of America. He also belonged to the Salmagundi Club, Church Club, and the Century Club, of which he was a trustee in 1924-1927. Surviving are his widow, who was Florence Warner of this city at their marriage in 1909; a daughter, Mrs. Moreau Yeomans of Great Neck, L.I., and two grandchildren, Frank S. and Louise W. Yeomans.