According to label on the reverse: This was painted with colors mined from the earth in California.
Painted at the Research Department of the Federal Art Project in Area B.

Edgar Dorsey Taylor
Born: July 15, 1904 in Grass Valley, CA
Died: March 28, 1978 in Los Angeles, CA
Education: Oak Grove Grammar School (today McKinley)
San Mateo High School
U.C. Berkeley: BA May 1928; MA May 1932
Hans Hofmann Schule, Munich 1929
Taussig Traveling Fellow in Art 1932 (1½ years: Greece, Turkey, Sicily, Germany)

Awards etc.: 1928 U.C. Berkeley chose design for decorative frieze in Sather Gate Bookstore 1932 Taussig Fellowship Award
1937 SFAA Medal of 1st Award for mosaic "Jewelry Rock"
1942 Texas Fine Arts Assoc., 2nd place for watercolor "On Lake Austin"
1944 Texas Fine Arts Assoc., 1st prize watercolor (received war bonds)
1944 SFAA Annual Artists' Fund Prize of Pastel
1946 S.F. Museum of Art Purchase Prize, Oil
1946 SFAA Annual Artists' Fund Prize of Drawings & Prints for "Scooters"
Exhibits:
One Man Spokane & Pullman Washington: 55 drawings (1945)
Washington State Circuit: 30 drawings (1945)
Santa Barbara Museum: 30 drawings (1945)
S.F. Palace Legion Honor: 40 drawings (1946)
Pasadena Museum of Art: Portfolio of woodcuts (1959)
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio: woodcuts
Courtyard Gallery, Monterey: woodcuts
Eric Locke Gallery, San Francisco: woodcuts (1963)
E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento: woodccuts (1963)
Smithsonian Institution, Div. of Graphic Arts: drawings (1968)
University of Texas, Austin: woodcuts (1969)
University of Maine at Orono: woodcuts (1971)
Kensington Library, Berkeley: woodcuts
San Pedro Municipal Art Gallery, San Pedro: woodcuts
Pasadena Arts Council (1991)
Huntington Library - Virginia Steele Scott Gallery (Oct.-Dec.95)