Comments on: Richard Deane Taylor 1925-2014

By: Evelina Brozgul-Krone

Evelina Brozgul-Krone — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 02:58:55 +0000

I’m so sorry to hear of my wonderful Art and Design teacher’s passing. He taught me illustration. I still have his grade with his beautiful handwriting on my projects that we did with stippling, gouache paints, rapitographs, he taught me so much. I remember that self portrait in our 1986 yearbook Jonathan I remember you in school as well. I’m so sorry for your loss.

By: Dan Johnson

Dan Johnson — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 09:02:57 +0000

Richard Deane Taylor was my first art teacher at the High School of Art & Design in New York. He gave me a love of perspective drawing when he took us to Sutton Place to draw the 59th Street bridge! I wish I had had him in further classes, he was highly praised by many of the teachers at A&D, as well as his students. One of my teachers there, Milton Whelpley, also spoke highly of Richard.

By: Patricia Garcia

Patricia Garcia — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 06:54:20 +0000

I´m very sad to hear he passed away. He was my teacher at Art and Design in the 70´s and I remember his classes and the many anecdotes he shared with us, like drawing at the light of the candle at his father´s shop…. dry cleaning, if I remember well, then becoming a comic illustrator, he even showed us some of his original work. I was impressed by his Scottish Soldier and his narrative of the challenges it represented. What I remember the most is the honoring love he had for his father, his words of encouragement and advise of integrity concerning our art… never copy someone else´s work. You have your own talent. Something that has been a guideline in my life up until now. I´m a teacher now and I do mention Mr. Taylor to my students as a role model in my life. I thought about his advise today and decided to google him. It was an honor to be his student and I honor his memory and his legacy. My heart thanks him always.
Sincerely
Patricia García de Mejía

By: Richard Langworth

Richard Langworth — Sun, 15 May 2016 15:28:35 +0000

Thanks so much. I have passed your comment along to his son Jonathan.

By: Mike Cahill

Mike Cahill — Sun, 15 May 2016 02:58:22 +0000

I am saddened to hear of Mr. Deane Taylor's passing only a few years ago. I was at Art & Design HS in the early Seventies and the good Mr. T was one of my teachers, in fact one of only two that I remember well. Complimentary and encouraging to my feeble efforts, he was a good guy who once went so far as to bring in samples of some cigarette ads he'd done some years before, just to illustrate a point to me about texturing. A fine man, very approachable. I'm really sorry to hear he passed. I would have loved to say thanks.

By: Jonathan Taylor

Jonathan Taylor — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:09:59 +0000

Thank you for this beautiful tribute to my father!