Lura Ann Taylor (sometimes Lura Ann Hedrick Taylor or Lura Ann Taylor Hedrick) (1906–1990) was an American printmaker. A native of Smithville,

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, Taylor studied at

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and

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. A member of various art organizations in

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, in 1939 she was one of eight women who founded the Printmakers Guild, later called Texas Printmakers, to challenge the male-dominated Lone Star Printmakers; the others were

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, Verda Ligon,

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, and Coreen Mary Spellman. She exhibited widely in Texas, and died in Dallas. Taylor's wood engraving ''Three Old Hens'' of c. 1947 is owned by the

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, where they are part of the donation made to the museum by Reba and Dave Williams of the Print Research Foundation in 2009. Taylor was the co-author of ''The Development of Pottery'', published by Texas State University for Women in 1937, and illustrated a handful of histories of Texas written by Bertha Mae Cox and published in the 1940s.

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