Hollis Taggart graduated from Washington & Lee University in 1971 with degrees in Business Administration and Art History. He attended law school from 1971-1974 at Tulane University, and received his Juris Doctorate degree in 1974.

Hollis Taggart Galleries began in 1977, specializing in nineteenth and early twentieth century American paintings. The gallery was located in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood from 1983 to 1994, and has been in New York City since 1994.

Hollis Taggart is a member of the Newark Museum’s Friends of American Art, a Circle member of the National Gallery of Art, and a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design, and the Lotos Club.