Orbit
Type:Painting
Year:c 1983
Size:48.00" x 48.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
William Melton Halsey ART FOR SALE
1915 Charleston, South Carolina - 1999 Charleston, South Carolina. Known for: Modernist-leaning landscape painting, collage, sculpture.
WILLIAM MELTON HALSEY (1915–1999). A native of Charleston, South Carolina, William Halsey broke away from the conventions of most local painters to become a pioneer of modern art in the South. As a... Read full biography
WILLIAM MELTON HALSEY (1915–1999). A native of Charleston, South Carolina, William Halsey broke away from the conventions of most local painters to become a pioneer of modern art in the South. As a boy growing up during the heyday of the Charleston's early twentieth century artistic renaissance,... Read full biography
WILLIAM MELTON HALSEY (1915–1999). A native of Charleston, South Carolina, William Halsey broke away from the conventions of most local painters to become a pioneer of modern art in the South. As a boy growing up during the heyday of the Charleston's early twentieth century artistic renaissance, Halsey's first art lessons were with one of that movement's leaders, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner. Following two years at the University of South Carolina, Halsey pursued further artistic training at the... Read full biography
WILLIAM MELTON HALSEY (1915–1999). A native of Charleston, South Carolina, William Halsey broke away from the conventions of most local painters to become a pioneer of modern art in the South. As a boy growing up during the heyday of the Charleston's early twentieth century artistic renaissance, Halsey's first art lessons were with one of that movement's leaders, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner. Following two years at the University of South Carolina, Halsey pursued further artistic training at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. There, he studied traditional line drawing with Alexander Iacovleff and color theory with Karl Zerbe. In 1939, Halsey was awarded the school's highest honor, the James William Paige Fellowship, for study... Read full biography
WILLIAM MELTON HALSEY (1915–1999). A native of Charleston, South Carolina, William Halsey broke away from the conventions of most local painters to become a pioneer of modern art in the South. As a boy growing up during the heyday of the Charleston's early twentieth century artistic renaissance, Halsey's first art lessons were with one of that movement's leaders, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner. Following two years at the University of South Carolina, Halsey pursued further artistic training at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. There, he studied traditional line drawing with Alexander Iacovleff and color theory with Karl Zerbe. In 1939, Halsey was awarded the school's highest honor, the James William Paige Fellowship, for study abroad. Originally scheduled to travel to Europe with his new wife, fellow artist Corrie McCallum, the onset of World War II necessitated a change... Read full biography
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