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Name
  
William Bailey


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Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Books
  
The Angler's Instructor, Shell Tones, Math Stuff, The World of Shalamar, Murder in Stratford

Education
  
Yale School of Art (1957)

Rev. Dr. Daly Barnes Jr. Eulogy for William H. Bailey Sr.


William H. Bailey (born November 17, 1930) is an American artist and university professor. He is the Kingman Brewster Professor Emeritus of Art at Yale. at Yale University. He is best known as a contemporary realist painter.

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Early life

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Bailey was born in 1930 in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

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

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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

Bailey's career as a working artist developed over time. He is 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.

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)
  • References

    William H. Bailey Wikipedia