The following biography was submitted by Kim Esteve, February 2005. In "Art In America" (May 1988), Ed Leffingwell wrote that Williams' late work 'corresponds to dominant concerns in the later... Read full biography
The following biography was submitted by Kim Esteve, February 2005. In "Art In America" (May 1988), Ed Leffingwell wrote that Williams' late work 'corresponds to dominant concerns in the later history of Brasilian Modernism. That correspondence is not so readily apparent in the paintings... Read full biography
The following biography was submitted by Kim Esteve, February 2005. In "Art In America" (May 1988), Ed Leffingwell wrote that Williams' late work 'corresponds to dominant concerns in the later history of Brasilian Modernism. That correspondence is not so readily apparent in the paintings themselves. The earlier hard-edged abstractions of his output of the 60s included in the Lawrence Alloway exhibitions "The Shaped Canvas" (1964) and "Systemic Paintings", (1966) at the Guggenheim Museum N.Y.,... Read full biography
The following biography was submitted by Kim Esteve, February 2005. In "Art In America" (May 1988), Ed Leffingwell wrote that Williams' late work 'corresponds to dominant concerns in the later history of Brasilian Modernism. That correspondence is not so readily apparent in the paintings themselves. The earlier hard-edged abstractions of his output of the 60s included in the Lawrence Alloway exhibitions "The Shaped Canvas" (1964) and "Systemic Paintings", (1966) at the Guggenheim Museum N.Y., bear a certain formal relationship to the Concrete and Neo Concrete of Brazilian Artists.'. Williams had developed a technique of painting as a collage in the 70s, applying dried skins of paint directly to the support, while retaining the structural... Read full biography
The following biography was submitted by Kim Esteve, February 2005. In "Art In America" (May 1988), Ed Leffingwell wrote that Williams' late work 'corresponds to dominant concerns in the later history of Brasilian Modernism. That correspondence is not so readily apparent in the paintings themselves. The earlier hard-edged abstractions of his output of the 60s included in the Lawrence Alloway exhibitions "The Shaped Canvas" (1964) and "Systemic Paintings", (1966) at the Guggenheim Museum N.Y., bear a certain formal relationship to the Concrete and Neo Concrete of Brazilian Artists.'. Williams had developed a technique of painting as a collage in the 70s, applying dried skins of paint directly to the support, while retaining the structural device of the shaped canvas. He manufactured these skins independently from the paintings themselves, on sheets of glass. ... Read full biography
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About Neil Williams: Books
Books & Publications (17)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
La Nouvelle Abstraction Americaine 1950-1970
2005
Humblet, Claudine
0 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Neil Williams Works From Brazil 1982-1988
1988
Esteve, Kim Lana Jokel
36 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985
Albright, Thomas
349 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Modern Art and the Object A Century of Changing Values
1976
Johnson, Ellen H
240 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Sources for Tomorrow: 50 American Paintings 1946-1966 James Michener Collection of Allentown Art Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1967
Hirsch, Richard
48 pages
Systemic Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
66 pages (color)
Young America 1965 Thirty American Artists Under 35 (Exhibition catalog)