The following is from Robert Hughes, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America . "It took time - too much time - for the magnitude of Diebenkorn's achievement to be fully recognized in New... Read full biography
The following is from Robert Hughes, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America . "It took time - too much time - for the magnitude of Diebenkorn's achievement to be fully recognized in New York. For entirely figurative artists, of course, it was harder still. They were reluctantly... Read full biography
The following is from Robert Hughes, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America . "It took time - too much time - for the magnitude of Diebenkorn's achievement to be fully recognized in New York. For entirely figurative artists, of course, it was harder still. They were reluctantly granted a niche at the side of the "mainstream," but not much more. Few people in the 1970s would have taken the view that, for all the difficulty of comparing apples and oranges, the calm and timelessly... Read full biography
The following is from Robert Hughes, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America . "It took time - too much time - for the magnitude of Diebenkorn's achievement to be fully recognized in New York. For entirely figurative artists, of course, it was harder still. They were reluctantly granted a niche at the side of the "mainstream," but not much more. Few people in the 1970s would have taken the view that, for all the difficulty of comparing apples and oranges, the calm and timelessly ordered still-lives of William Bailey were at least as full of pictorial intelligence and visual subtlety as anything in color-field painting, although it was obvious that they belonged to a different order of pictorial ambition from that of most... Read full biography
The following is from Robert Hughes, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America . "It took time - too much time - for the magnitude of Diebenkorn's achievement to be fully recognized in New York. For entirely figurative artists, of course, it was harder still. They were reluctantly granted a niche at the side of the "mainstream," but not much more. Few people in the 1970s would have taken the view that, for all the difficulty of comparing apples and oranges, the calm and timelessly ordered still-lives of William Bailey were at least as full of pictorial intelligence and visual subtlety as anything in color-field painting, although it was obvious that they belonged to a different order of pictorial ambition from that of most American realism at the time, which tended to be anecdotal and nostalgic. There was nothing nostalgic or narrat... Read full biography
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About William H Bailey: Books
Books & Publications (49)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Julie Sasse
165 pages (color)
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
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press
1996
Brown, Kathan
287 pages (color)
Gracious Plenty American Still-Life Art from Southern Collections
1996
Pennington, Estill Curtis
127 pages
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
William Bailey
1991
Briganti, Giuliano et al
195 pages (color)
The Artist Observed 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists
1991
Gruen, John
324 pages
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Large Scale Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1991
John Berggruen Gallery
47 pages (color)
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Berggruen, John
97 pages (color)
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem
1988
Wooden, Howard E
212 pages
Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World 1940-1985
1987
Crane, Diana
194 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Dobkin, John (Preface); John I.H. Baer, (Essay)
120 pages (color)
William Bailey
1987
Strand, Mark
80 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe
95 pages
American Still Life 1945-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cathcart, Linda L
144 pages (color)
Perspectives on Contemporary American Realism (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Goodyear, Frank H
91 pages (color)
A Heritage Renewed Representational Drawing Today (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Plous, Phyllis
87 pages (color)
Art of the Real Nine American Figurative Painters
1983
Strand, Mark (editor)
240 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)