Della Brown Taylor Hardman (May 20, 1922– December 13, 2005) was an American artist born in Charleston, West Virginia in 1922.

In 1946, she married Francis C. Taylor, Sr. She worked at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University for two years beginning in 1952.

[1] Hardman studied at colleges in Europe, Korea, the Caribbean, Latin America, West Africa and Canada.

While at Kent State, she completed a dissertation on William Edward Scott, the second black artist to graduate from the Art Institute of Chicago.

[3] In 2014, Harvard professor Henry Louis (Skip) Gates Jr., a fellow West Virginian, spoke at Della Hardman Day.