Audrey Wallace-Taylor

June 13, 1933 - Aug. 15, 2023

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Audrey Wallace-Taylor was born Audrey Langworthy Taylor during the Great Depression into a family of Hollywood artists. Her father Dwight wrote movies like “Top Hat” with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, her mother Marigold was an actress, and her grandmother, Laurette Taylor, was one of the leading stage actresses of the 20th century. As a youngster, she lived much of the time at a boarding school in Ojai Valley, California, where her older brother Jeff also went. There she learned many of the skills of independence and love of nature that would serve her well. She lived many of her teen years in Winnetka, Illinois with her aunt Francis Murray, who remained a strong influence for the rest of her life. In Winnetka, she met and married Tim Wallace when she was 18. They went to work a ranch in Oregon where she lived the life of a rancher’s wife and had her first child, Carey. They soon moved to Corvallis so Tim could go to graduate school, and she had her second child, Peter. They moved to Sparks, Nevada, and then West Lafayette, Indiana, where her third child, Barbara, was born. When Tim finished his doctorate, they moved to Berkeley, California in 1964. Audrey’s life as an artist began very young, and it was

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