William H. Bailey (artist)

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

For other people by the same name, see William Bailey.

Early life

Bailey was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa.[4]

He studied from 1948 to 1951 at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas.[4]

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.[4]

After his army days were over, he earned a B.F.A. (1955) and an M.F.A. (1957) at Yale.[4] He studied with Josef Albers.[2]

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.[2]

He was a professor of art at Yale from 1969 to 1995.[2] Bailey died in 2020, at the age of 89.[5]

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.[6]

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

References
  1. Betty Cuningham Gallery
  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 (April 18, 2020). "William Bailey, Modernist Figurative Painter, Dies at 89". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  6. WorldCat Identities: Bailey, William 1930– 
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