Name William Rice | Role Painter | |
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Died January 23, 2006, New York City, New York, United States Awards Lambda Literary Award for Small Press Book Award Movies Coffee and Cigarettes, Decoder, The Vineyard, Manhattan Love Suicides Similar People James Hong, Jim Jarmusch, Karen Witter, Richard Kern, Tom DiCillo | ||
William "Bill" Rice (1931 – January 23, 2006) was a prominent and regular fixture of the avant-garde art scene in the East Village in New York City for many years.
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A painter, film actor, and an unaffiliated scholar, Bill Rice was one of the central figures in the various bohemian enclaves that gathered and overlapped in the Lower East Side of the 1960s. Among his diverse achievements, Rice worked with noted Gertrude Stein expert Ulla Dydo on Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises: 1923–1934 (2003), an essential study of the author’s writing process, using her notebooks and manuscripts.
He was born in Vermont and graduated from Middlebury College. He moved to Manhattan's East Third Street in 1953, and died in Manhattan of lung cancer on January 23, 2006.