The Fred Taylor Archive comprises seven main categories of information on the life and career of Frederick
B. Taylor. Biographical Information includes an excerpt from an unpublished autobiographical
manuscript, Essays includes works such as "Reflections on painting Stephen Leacock",
Photographs includes both professional and social snapshots. Two main facets of the Archive
which hold particular interest are Works and Correspondence. Works includes over 1550
reproductions of Taylor's work. This selection is a cross-section of Taylor's artistic
mediums and includes painting (landscape, industrial, portrait, still-life), etching,
drawing, sculpture as well as six original prints and seven original canvases located at
McGill University. Correspondence comprises some 2000 letters, documents or memorandums,
spans from the early 1920's up until Taylor's death in 1987 and is divided into professional
and personal sections.