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On Friday 4 May 2007 an exhibition of white-line woodblock (“Provincetown”) prints by the noted artist Grace Martin Taylor (1903-1995) will open at ACME Fine Art in Boston. The exhibition will feature more than one dozen of Taylor’s distinctive white-line prints, which were created in small editions between 1928 and 1985. In addition, a fine selection of rare watercolors and drawings that were studies for the prints will be shown alongside them. Another important highlight of the exhibition will be the first-ever exhibition of three double-sided, hand-carved, wooden printing blocks created by Ms. Taylor during the 1930s. This also marks the first time that any of the artist’s color wood printing blocks have been offered for sale.

Her cousin and mentor, Blanche Lazzell, introduced Grace Martin Taylor to the printmaking technique that led to what is now commonly referred to as the “Provincetown” print. It was Lazzell who encouraged Taylor to travel to Provincetown to study. In her first summer there Taylor took a course of fifteen private two-hour lessons from her cousin in what Lazzell called “Color Wood Block Printing, one block method.” Both women were West Virginia natives who came to spend many a summer in Provincetown, where they enjoyed the collegial atmosphere of the art colony, and where they produced some of what is now considered their best work. One of Grace Martin Taylor’s earliest efforts in the Provincetown Printing technique –possibly done during her first summer there- is titled Sails and Gulls, and it will figure prominently in the ACME Fine Art exhibition.

Grace MartinTaylor earned her A.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of West Virginia. In addition to studying with Blanche Lazzell, she also studied with Henry McCarter, and Arthur Carles at the Pennsylvania Academy, with Emil Bisttram in Taos, New Mexico, and with Hans Hofmann at his School of Fine Art in Provincetown. Taylor’s work has been exhibited extensively. Notable venues include: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Academy of Design, Smithsonian Institution, Baltimore Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Most recently, four of her white-line woodblock prints were featured in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s 2002 exhibition From Paris to Provincetown.

ACME Fine Art’s exhibition of print work by Grace Martin Taylor will open with a reception between 6 and 8 on the evening of Friday, 4 May 2007. ACME Fine Art is located at 38 Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. Gallery hours are 11:00 to 5:30 Tuesday through Saturday.

For further information please contact the gallery at 617.585.9551, or via e-mail at info@acmefineart.com.

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