Gage Taylor

[1] Art critic Thomas Albright wrote, "Taylor's landscape fantasies combined profuse detail with heavier, painterly surfaces and achieved a 'naive' and nostalgic flavor, like the work of a visionary Grandma Moses.

"[5] In 1974, Taylor and his peer Robert Moon returned from a short tour of Baja, Mexico, “exulting about the fantastic wilderness they had seen,” according to the Village Voice’s Howard Smith.

[6] From that experience, Taylor and Moon submitted a proposal which was accepted by the San Francisco Museum of Art[7] to take a monthlong expedition back to Baja along with four contemporaries: Robert Fried, Gerald Gooch, Bill Martin, and Richard Lowenberg.

[8] What resulted was the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's exhibition, Baja, which Artweek's Clark heralded as "a popular success."

Their work arrived one hour before the quake en route to Hanson Galleries where Taylor and Dana were represented in Sausalito, LaJolla, and Carmel, CA.