She attained a wide audience in the later 1930s when the Australian Broadcasting Commission featured her art programs on radio stations in Sydney and Canberra as well as her hometown of Melbourne.
[1] Taylor was the daughter of colonial artist, Elizabeth Ball, who studied at the National Gallery School in the 1860s, was elected as an associate of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1879[2] and exhibited with that group.
[1] The Sydney Morning Herald claimed that ‘hundreds of art lovers’ had enjoyed her lectures and noted that the Athenaeum Club had made a list of outstanding public lectures delivered in Melbourne and that Taylor had been selected for this honour alongside major scholars from the University of Melbourne of that era, Professors Osborne and Crawford and Sir Ernest Fiske.
[8] Perhaps her greatest impact on Australian cultural life was her active lobbying for the establishment of a School of Art History at the University of Melbourne in the 1930s.
"[10] In 1929 she criticised Arthur Streeton for mentioning only one woman artist in an article outlining the history of Australian art.