William H. Bailey
Bailey (November 17, 1930 – April 13, 2020) was an American artist and university professor. He was the Kingman Brewster Professor Emeritus of Art at Yale University. He is best known as a contemporary realist painter.
William H. Bailey
- Born
- 1930 · Council Bluffs.
- Died
- 2020
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · draftsperson · printmaker
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Bailey (November 17, 1930 – April 13, 2020) was an American artist and university professor. He was the Kingman Brewster Professor Emeritus of Art at Yale University. He is best known as a contemporary realist painter.
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William H. Bailey (1930–2020) was a draftsperson, painter and printmaker, of American nationality. The draftsperson was born in Council Bluffs. William H. Bailey worked for Yale University and was a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Works are held at Ackland Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Fine Arts Boston, among others. Honours include Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Early life
Employment is recorded with Yale University. Work by William H. Bailey is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Art Institute of Chicago. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.
Bailey was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He studied from 1948 to 1951 at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas. His student days were interrupted from 1951 to 1953. Bailey was a sergeant in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. He served in Japan and Korea. After his army days were over, he earned a B.F.A. (1955) and an M.F.A. (1957) at Yale. He studied with Josef Albers.
Career
Career
Bailey's career as a working artist developed over time. He was best known as a figurative painter whose work is in major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. He was a professor of art at Yale from 1969 to 1995. Bailey died in 2020, at the age of 89.
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Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Bailey, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 40+ works in 60+ publications in 5 languages and 2,100 library holdings. • William Bailey: studio fictions (1999) • William Bailey: peintures et dessins (2001) • William Bailey on paper (2006)
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- 1.William Bailey [1930 - 2020] - Artists - Betty Cuningham Gallery. www.bettycuninghamgallery.com.
- 2.Baker, Doris. "The ‘made up’ world of artist William Bailey," Yale News, December 10, 2010; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- 3."WIlliam Bailey" at Artcyclopedia.com; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- 4."William H. Bailey" at artnet.com; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- 5.Grimes, William. William Bailey, Modernist Figurative Painter, Dies at 89. The New York Times. 2020-04-18. 0362-4331.
- 6.WorldCat Identities: Bailey, William 1930–
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