Gafford was involved in founding the Los Angeles Negro Art Association in 1937, and the Eleven Associated Artists gallery (later Art West Association) in downtown Los Angeles. At 81, she accepted a commission to paint portraits of twelve notable African Americans, for display at the Family Savings and Loan Association offices in Los Angeles. Her works, mostly still life or landscape scenes, were exhibited often in her later years. She was active in the Val Verde community, teaching and holding art exhibitions, and chairing the Val Verde Women's Cultural Society. She trained at Otis Art Institute (now called Otis College of Art and Design) and earned a teaching certificate at UCLA in 1951, when she was sixty-five years old, and taught art in an adult education program. Notable from her first career are a stint with the American Red Cross in Alaska (1915–16), and work with Daniel Hale Williams in Chicago. Gafford was a nurse for twenty-five years before beginning her career in art. Her parents were Benjamin and Alice Armstead Taylor. Alice Taylor Gafford (Aug– October 27, 1981) was an American nurse, teacher, and artist, based in Los Angeles.Īlice Taylor was born in Tecumseh, Kansas, one of ten children.
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