"Still Life with Blue Plate" by Alice Taylor Gafford, between 1935-1975

Title: "Still Life with Blue Plate" by Alice Taylor Gafford, between 1935-1975
Alternative title: Alice T. Gafford, painter
Artist: Gafford, Alice Taylor, 1886-1981
Date Created: [between 1935-1975]
Date: 1935/1975
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: Still life with pieces of fruit on a blue plate, a tea kettle, a blue bottle, a wine glass and teacup.
"Still Life with Blue Plate" was in the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance art collection until 2007, when the company went out of business. It is now kept at the Executive Office of the Board of Supervisors, located at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration 500 West Temple Street Los Angeles.
Alice Taylor Gafford was a nurse, teacher, and artist. Gafford worked as a nurse for twenty-five years before studying at the Otis Art Institute and embarking on her career as an artist in around 1935. Her notable works are of still life and landscape scenes. She earned a teaching certificate at UCLA in 1951, when she was sixty-five years old, and taught art in an adult education program. She stopped painting in 1975 due to cataracts. She was involved in founding the Los Angeles Negro Art Association, and the Eleven Associated Artists gallery (later Art West Association) in downtown Los Angeles.