Lot 332
Anna Heywood Taylor (American/South Carolina, 1879-1956), "Harvesting Rice", 1937, linocut on paper, pencil-signed, dated and numbered "7", image 9 1/2 in. x 12 1/2 in., sheet 12 1/2 in. x 16 1/2 in., framed Note: Born to a prominent Columbia, South Carolina family, Anna Heyward Taylor first studied under William Merritt Chase in 1900. After traveling many years including stints in Japan working with Helen Hyde and in Provincetown studying with other prominent printmakers, she settled back in Charleston in the late 1920s. It was there she undertook illustrating This Our Land by Chalmers Murray. The book told the history of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina and its historic cash crops: indigo, rice, tobacco and cotton. This scene, retold in the distinctive white-line of her linocut, Taylor illustrates the rice harvest.
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