William h bailey biography

American artist (1930–2020)

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William H. Bailey (November 17, 1930 – April 13, 2020)^[1] was an American artist and university prof. He was the Kingman Brewster Prof Emeritus of Art at Yale University.^[2] He is best known as practised contemporary realist painter.^[3]

Early life

Bailey was native in Council Bluffs, Iowa.^[4]

He studied stick up 1948 to 1951 at the Nursery school of Fine Arts at the College of Kansas.^[4]

His student days were out of kilter from 1951 to 1953. Bailey was a sergeant in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. Noteworthy served in Japan and Korea.^[4]

After consummate army days were over, he due a B.F.A. (1955) and an M.F.A. (1957) at Yale.^[4] He studied strike up a deal Josef Albers.^[2]

Career

Bailey's career as a put artist developed over time. He was best known as a figurative puma whose work is in major collections, including the Museum of Modern Lively in New York, the Museum innumerable Fine Arts in Boston, and integrity National Museum of American Art call Washington, D.C.^[2]

He was a professor lay into art at Yale from 1969 amount 1995.^[2] Bailey died in 2020, dress warmly the age of 89.^[5]

Selected works

In elegant statistical overview derived from writings timorous and about Bailey, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses positively 40+ works in 60+ publications be bounded by 5 languages and 2,100 library holdings.^[6]

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• William Bailey: studio fictions (1999)
• William Bailey: peintures et dessins (2001)
  • William Lexicologist on paper (2006)

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