Mervyn Taylor (artist)

Ernest Mervyn Taylor (1906–1964) was a notable New Zealand engraver, commercial artist and publisher.

Between 2015 and 2018, these works were the subject of the E. Mervyn Taylor Mural Search and Recovery Project at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University.

The project lead to a book Wanted: The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor.

[3] One of his commissions was a mural at the Taitā headquarters of the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR)’s Soil Bureau depicting a cloaked figure using a kō (Māori digging stick).

The mural was commissioned by the New Zealand Government to mark the 1962 completion of the Tasman leg of the Commonwealth Pacific Cable (COMPAC) – a huge underwater telephone cable system that connected New Zealand to its Commonwealth allies in the aftermath of World War Two.