Ruth Taylor White was an American pictorial cartographer and illustrator, best known for her output of colorful tourist and promotional maps. Her work spanned the late 1920s to the late 1940s, a stretch that covers the golden age of pictorial mapping despite the constraints of the Great Depression, and the fact she was a woman in the entrenched patriarchy. She most certainly stands amongst maybe a half-dozen masters of the craft and shares other characteristics with the artists of her genre and time. Her "cartographs" (as she called them) were characterized by her signature bobble-headed cartoon characters who romped through colorful, attractive landscapes.
