Prentiss taylor and langston hughes
•
HUGHES, Langston (1901-1967). Scottsboro Limited. Prentiss Taylor, illustrator. New York: The Golden Stair Press, 1932.
4to. 4 lithographs by Prentiss Taylor tipped to larger sheets. (A few mostly marginal spots.) Original black cloth-backed pictorial boards, uncut (hinges just starting, spotting). Provenance: Noël Sullivan (presentation inscription, bookplate); by descent to present owner.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 1 of 30 large-paper copies printed on Papier de Rives, signed by Hughes and Taylor.
PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO SULLIVAN: “For Noel – whose sympathies embrace all the living world – these poems of the nine poor boys at Scottsboro – Sincerely, Langston. Los Angeles, June 4, 1932.”
In March 1932, Noël Sullivan wrote to Langston Hughes to invite him to stay with him in San Francisco. In that letter, Sullivan shared that he had just sung a Hughes poem set to music by John Alden Carpenter in a concert, and had long been an admirer of
•
Prentiss Taylor
American illustrator, lithographer and painter (1907-1991)
Prentiss Taylor (December 13, 1907 – October 7, 1991) was an American illustrator, lithographer, and painter. Born in Washington D.C., Taylor began his art studies at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, followed by painting classes under Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and training at the Art Students League in New York City. In 1931, Taylor began studying lithography at the League. He became a member of one of the most important printmaking societies in amerika at that time, the gemenskap of American Graphic Artists. Taylor interacted and collaborated with many writers and musicians in his time in New York in the late 1920s and early 30s. This was in the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance. Among his close friends and colleagues were Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten.
Taylor's work is in the collection of numerous institutions such as: the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Amer
•
Prentiss Taylor
Prentiss Taylor (1907–1991) was an American illustrator, lithographer, and painter. Born in Washington D.C., Taylor began his art studies at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, followed by painting classes beneath Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, MA, and training at the Art Students League in New York. A fateful class in lithography at the League led to his new focus, and his subsequent experiments with various lithographic techniques and compositions beginning in 1931 quickly led to his earning a reputation as one of the U.S.’s great practitioners of the medium.
At the same time as his experimenting with crayon on stone, he became enthralled with the rich literary and artistic movement that was peaking in Upper Manhattan during the late 1920s and early 30s. As a result, Taylor met and collaborated with many writers and musicians synonymous with the Harlem Renaissance and became one of the few vit artists active in it, counting among his closest friends the poet Langsto