The Struggle
- The Struggle
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Maxwell Taylor. The Struggle. 2002. Woodcut. 31 x 51 inches.
Maxwell Taylor was born in Nassau in 1939. He studied at Don Russell's Nassau Academy, later apprenticing at the fabled Chelsea Pottery as a ceramic designer alongside Bahamian artists Brent Malone, Eddie Minnis, and Kendal Hanna. He left home for the U.S. to study at the Art Students League in New York from 1968 to 1972, and worked in photo silkscreen at The Pratt Graphic Center and printmaking at Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop from 1969 to 1977. He was awarded the Southern Arts Federation Fellowship award for works on paper by the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2009, the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas mounted a major retrospective of Taylor's work entitled Max Taylor: Paperwork, 1960-1992, which featured a great number of his emotionally charged large-scale woodblock prints. More about his life and work can be found on page 55 of this issue.
