Howard Taylor (1918 – 2001), With a vast, innovative oeuvre spanning five decades, Howard Taylor is widely revered as one of the most significant artists of the late twentieth century to interpret the Australian landscape. Honoured in 2003 with a major retrospective at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, he was praised by critics as Taylor an ‘old master’ in the same vein as Sidney Nolan and Fred Williams.

While firmly rooted within the landscape tradition of Australian art, his work however defies definition, standing resolutely outside any particular ‘school’ or ‘movement’. As Anthony Russell observes, ‘…his vision went far beyond the focus of any painter before him, in that none of them – ...