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Clara Sidney Potter Davidge Taylor (1858-1921) was a tremendously accomplished and cultured woman. The eldest daughter of Bishop Henry Codman Potter, Clara was a pioneering woman in the field of interior decoration, establishing a specialty in the design of hotels and clubhouses. She was responsible for the interior decor of the Hotel Otesaga in Cooperstown, a property owned by her step-brothers, the four sons of Alfred Corning Clark and Elizabeth Scriven Clark. She also carried out the interior decoration for the Mayflower Hotel for women in New York City. Around 1911 she established the Coventry Studios in New York City, 305 Madison Avenue, establishing along with it the Madison Art Gallery, which existed from 1909 to 1912. The gallery hosted a series of group and solo shows promoting young talented artists, most of whom would have had trouble getting their art in front of the public as the National Academy of Design typically rejected anything advanced or abstract for their juried annual shows, which set the pace for American art. George Bellows had his first show there, as did Walt Kuhn. Shows at the gallery in 1911 spurred the establishment of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, which in 1913 brought forth the epochal International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known as the Armory Show. Clara was involved with many aspects of the exhibition, most notably fundraising and decorating the 69th Regiment Armory drill hall. After the show closed in New York City, she married Henry Fitch Taylor, her manager at the Madison Art Gallery and a prime mover in the Armory Show. The Taylors lived in a series of homes for the time remaining to them, always involved with the cutting edge of fine art and interior design.