Among his visitors there were John Twachtman, Childe Hassam, Willa Cather, Arthur B. Davies, George Luks, and Walt Kuhn; many of these acquaintances would come to play an important role in Taylor's life as an artist.

[5] As reported by Jerome Myers in his autobiography Artist In Manhattan[6] Elmer MacRae and I formed the "Pastelist's Society," for the showing of intimate drawings and pastels.

Some time afterwards in the Madison Gallery, of which Henry Fitch Taylor was the director, Walt Kuhn, Elmer MacRae and I were exhibiting our work.

(Date: December 14, 1911) There our first meeting was held (Kuhn, MacRae, Taylor, Myers) and a tentative list of members was made up which finally resulted in the organization of the "Association of American Painters and Sculptors."

As Walt Kuhn says in his commemorative pamphlet, The Story of the Armory Show: "The group of four men who first set the wheels in motion had no idea of the magnitude to which their early longings would lead.