Agnes Tait (Agnes Gabrielle Tait, Agnes Tait McNulty) was born in New York in 1894. She studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City with Francis Jones, Charles Hinton and Leon Kroll. She studied lithography in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1927. She painted several murals as part of the Federal Arts Project (WPA). Her projects include one at Belleview Hospital in New York, painted in 1936 as well as at the First National Bank of Santa Fe in 1953 and at the US Post Office in Laurinburg, North Carolina in the 1950s.
In 1933, she married William Mc Nulty and the couple settled permanently in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1941. Agnes Tait traveled extensively throughout her lifetime and often incorporated the things and places she saw into her work. She earned an income through portrait commissions and also worked as an illustrator, most notably for Heidi in 1947 and Paco's Miracle in 1961.
Exhibited: New York World's Fair (1939); Pennsylvania Academy; National Association of Women; Dudensing Galleries, New York; Art Institute of Chicago (multiple between 1915-1936), National Academy of Design, Ferargil Galleries, New York (solo); Weyhe Gallery, New York City (1973); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1976).
Works Held: Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery; Museum of New Mexico, New York Public Library; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Roswell Museum, School of American Research.