Richard Taylor (1902–1970) was a Canadian cartoonist best known for his cartoons in the magazine ''

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'' and in Playboy. He signed his work R.Taylor. Canadian comics historian John Bell called Taylor "one of the greatest ''New Yorker'' cartoonists". Taylor was born in 1902 in

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, in Canada. In the 1920s, he contributed to Toronto-based publications; he contributed for a year to ''Toronto Telegram'' newspaper, from 1927 to the

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's humour magazine '' The Goblin'', and the

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newspaper ''The Worker''. Aside from cartooning, he produced commercial art and in his spare time painted. In 1935, ''The New Yorker'' began publishing his work, and he thereafter moved to the United States, where there were more opportunities for better pay for cartoonists. He married Maxine MacTavish in Toronto, Ontario and they had no children Taylor died in

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, in the United States in 1970 of prostate cancer. The National Gallery of Canada has been gifted the vast majority of his lifetime's works.

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