Bill Taylor
This artist first appeared on the Milwaukee art scene in the late 1950’s as a watercolorist. Over the years, Bill Taylor’s works have appeared in a number of salons and restaurants in Milwaukee and Waukesha. He also exhibited at many juried art shows and won numerous awards. In addition, he has completed large, colorful, outdoor murals, mosaics and restorations in downtown Waukesha since 1998. Taylor has taken various watercolor and oil painting courses at Layton School of Art (now MIAD), Milwaukee County Art Museum, and Cardinal Stritch University.
Taylor believes that “art plays an essential role in shaping daily communications because it is vivid, instantaneous and has the power to strike us with a beauty of form and color that opens us to others and transforms drabness into excitement in the process”.
Taylor’s wall sculpture highlights significant areas of accomplishments, inventions and events that have influenced the course of history. The sculpture is comprised of books in various colors, with each book having a symbol representing a different theme such as voyages of exploration, mathematics, architecture and inventions.
Cavalcade of History and Civilizations, Ideas that Changed the World is located in the Program Room. Acquired in 2015.