1975
Collotype
Signed and numbered
30 x 22 ½ in
Edition of 200
Viale *
2002
Hard ground and soft ground etching with aquatint
Signed by the artist in pencil, numbered
26 x 28 inches
Edition of 25
Established American painter William Bailey works in styles ranging from abstraction to super-real and is best known for his still-lifes. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1930, Bailey had a youthful vocation for drawing that led him to study with Josef Albers at Yale University. There he made friends with Willem De Kooning and Jackson Pollock.
Bailey’s compositions break with traditional still-life paintings, with his chosen objects standing in a shallow space against a flat plane of color, lending them a decidedly modern quality.
Bailey has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe and his work is found in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Joseph Hirshhorn Museum. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Mr. Bailey has taught at Yale and the University of Indiana, and later served as Dean of the Yale School of Art, where he currently teaches painting and drawing.
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Bailey, William
Bailey’s compositions break with traditional still-life paintings, with his chosen objects standing in a shallow space against a flat plane of color, lending them a decidedly modern quality.
Bailey has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe and his work is found in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Joseph Hirshhorn Museum. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Mr. Bailey has taught at Yale and the University of Indiana, and later served as Dean of the Yale School of Art, where he currently teaches painting and drawing.