Haywood "Bill" Rivers - Artist Info

About Haywood "Bill" Rivers

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    HAYWOOD “BILL” RIVERS (1922-2002)

    Recollections of childhood frequently appear in the early work of Haywood “Bill” Rivers. As they are recalled from memory some years later, these are often colorful and layered with little concern for the depiction of three dimensions–but rendered as though from above. As a child, Rivers would observe his mother and grandmother quilting, their designs passed down from generations before them. The artist would draw the quilt patterns, later he would paint the scenes of these memories; later still, when he had turned to abstraction, he explained, "Everything I've ever done comes from the quilts.”

    Rivers was born in Morven, North Carolina, a small town located south and east of Charlott...

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