James Taylor Harwood

James Taylor Harwood (8 April 1860, Lehi, Utah – 16 October 1940, Salt Lake City) was an American painter, engraver and art teacher.

He displayed an early talent for art; taking lessons with the local painters, George M. Ottinger, Alfred Lambourne and Dan Weggeland.

There, they shared an apartment while studying at the Académie Julian with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Paul Laurens.

The following year, Harwood passed the entrance exam for the École des beaux-arts, and worked under the direction of Léon Bonnat.

That same year, Harriet exhibited one of her oils in the Utah Pavilion at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, alongside "Preparations for Dinner".