Elizabeth Taylor (painter)
Elizabeth Taylor ( born January 8, 1856 in Columbus, Ohio; † March 1932 in Wake Robin, Vermont, United States) was an American painter, botanist, journalist and globetrotter. It is particularly in the Faroe Islands in memory, where they spent a total of ten years, and Mistela (Miss Taylor) is called.
Life
Elizabeth Taylor, the youngest of five daughters of the Consul James Wickes Taylor (1819-1893), grew up in Saint Paul ( Minnesota) and first studied painting at the Art Students League of New York and in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julien.
In the 1880s and 1890s, she traveled on the Nipigon River and the Mackenzie River, the Northwest Territories of Canada and Alaska, 1892, they crossed the Arctic Circle. The report on its 3700 km long journey appeared in 1894 with his own drawings in the journal outing under the title A Woman Explorer in the Mackenzie Delta. As a self-taught, she collected plants and animals for museum collections, they received such as a Ehrentaxon for the variety Arenaria lateriflora L, var Taylorae. This was followed by trips to England, where she lived for a while, Scotland, France, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Italy and Montenegro.
About her travels, she reported in extensive correspondence, her articles have appeared inter alia in the American entertainment magazine Frank Leslie 's Popular Monthly, Atlantic Monthly and Forest and Stream, contributions that they could not bring themselves in book form during his lifetime. Only posthumously published her nephew James Taylor Dunn this in 1979 as The Far Islands and other cold places. Travel Essays of a Victorian lady, that was recognized in 1998 with one of the Minnesota Book Awards.
" Mistela " and the Faroe Islands
Elizabeth Taylor was in the years 1895-1919 five times in the Faroe Islands. Your two longest stay lasted five years:. 1900-1905 and 1914-1919, the second long stay was longer than intended because of the First World War, there was no way for them, their passport to renew by mail and there was no captain who wanted to take her to America.
She lived among other Mykines, Viðareiði, Eiði and Miðvágur.
On Viðareiði she became friends with the pastor's wife Flora Heilmann (1872-1943), the first known painter in the Faroe Islands. Together they had a not insignificant influence on the resulting Faroese visual art. Very likely it was here where Jógvan Waagstein got his artistic impulses.
In Miðvágur Mistela lived in the house of Hans Kristoffer á Ryggi, horticultural pioneer of the Faroe Islands, whose floral, woody and tree crops impressed her greatly. Here they also brought the later scientific author Mikkjal á Ryggi (1879-1956) in the drawing. He illustrated his books in the wake of the Faroese nature itself.
They became the most important influence on Eiði when she lived at home Niels Kruse ( 1871-1953 ). He was the first landscape painters of the Faroe Islands and mistelas students.
Works
- A Woman Explorer in the Mackenzie Delta. In: Outing. An illustrated monthly magazine of sports, travel and recreation. The Outing Company, New York / London. Volume XXV, 1894/1895, pp. 44-55, 120-132, 229-235, 304-311. ( Internet Archive ).
- Elizabeth and the Far Islands. Ten years on the Faroes, eds James Taylor Dunn, foreword by John F. West. Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, self-published, 1979 ( manuscript in the National Library of the Faroe Islands, 233 pp., photos ).
- The Far Islands and other cold places. Travel Essays of a Victorian lady, eds James Taylor Dunn. St. Paul, Pogo Press, Minnesota 1997, ISBN 1-880654-11-3 (305 pages, pictures, expanded edition of the manuscript, article about the Faroe Islands on p 128-295 ).
- In the storm caught on Stóra Dimun. In: Tjaldur. ( Bulletin of the German - Faroese circle of friends ). 20/1998, pp. 40-47.
- Hans Kristoffer's Garden ( translation: Norbert B. Vogt ). In: Tjaldur. 21/1998, pp. 49-58.