Portrait of Alice Taylor Gafford holding paint brushes and standing in front of a painting 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.
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African American painters Gafford, Alice Taylor, 1886-1981
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