St. Francis, Cherokee

St. Francis, Cherokee

Church buildings

Mountains

Relief printing

Stone buildings

This woodblock print by John “Jack” Taylor (1906-1990) shows steps leading to a church on a hillside. The print is unsigned and incorporated into the image is “JT.” The artist’s son, Nick Taylor, supplied the title “St. Francis, Cherokee” and the image depicts St. Francis of Assisi church located near the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Cherokee, North Carolina. This is one of 26 relief prints, donated by Taylor, depicting life in western North Carolina. John Taylor was a self-taught, avocational artist. A native of England, he emigrated to Canada, then to the United States, and moved with his wife Clare to Waynesville, NC in the early 1940s. He traveled widely around the area as the Haywood County land surveyor, which is how he encountered many of the subjects portrayed in his prints.

Taylor, John Wotton, 1906-1990

John Taylor Relief Prints Collection

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relief prints

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StillImage

68077

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Cherokee (N.C.)

Swain County (N.C.)

9.75" x 6.25" (dimension)

Picturing Appalachia