Arkansas: Ruth Taylor White, 1935

Title: Arkansas Author: Ruth Taylor White Date: 1935 Condition: Excellent Inches: 12 x 9 [Paper] Centimeters: 30.48 x 22.86 [Paper] Product ID: 308455 This map of Arkansas is a vibrant pictorial “cartograph” published in Boston as part of her celebrated series for Our USA: A Gay Geography. The map is filled with whimsical illustrations and lively colors, depicting Alabama’s cities, agricultural products, historical sites, and local culture in a playful, engaging style. Background on Creator Ruth Taylor White (born March 1896, sometimes cited as 1899; date of death unknown) was a pioneering American pictorial mapmaker celebrated for her whimsical, colorful, and highly detailed “carto-graphs” created between the late 1920s and 1940s. Born in Oregon to painter John S. Taylor, Ruth was part of a creative family that included her sister Della Taylor Hoss, also a noted pictorial cartographer, and her brother Frank Taylor, an author with whom she frequently collaborated. Ruth’s ear