A significant figure in the Bay Area Figurative movement of the San Francisco, Oakland, California area, William Wiley along with Robert Arneson is regarded as a pivotal artist in the transition... Read full biography
A significant figure in the Bay Area Figurative movement of the San Francisco, Oakland, California area, William Wiley along with Robert Arneson is regarded as a pivotal artist in the transition between the Funk Art of the 1950s rooted in Abstract Expressionism and the more self-conscious, overt... Read full biography
A significant figure in the Bay Area Figurative movement of the San Francisco, Oakland, California area, William Wiley along with Robert Arneson is regarded as a pivotal artist in the transition between the Funk Art of the 1950s rooted in Abstract Expressionism and the more self-conscious, overt Funk Art that followed. He was also a popular teacher at the University of California at Davis. Reviewer Hilton Kramer in 1971 referred to Wiley's work as "Dude Ranch Dada," and he became the leading... Read full biography
A significant figure in the Bay Area Figurative movement of the San Francisco, Oakland, California area, William Wiley along with Robert Arneson is regarded as a pivotal artist in the transition between the Funk Art of the 1950s rooted in Abstract Expressionism and the more self-conscious, overt Funk Art that followed. He was also a popular teacher at the University of California at Davis. Reviewer Hilton Kramer in 1971 referred to Wiley's work as "Dude Ranch Dada," and he became the leading inspiration for conceptualists who asserted that their life is art. He was anxious to escape what he perceived as the deadly serious, highly self-conscious symbolism of Abstract Expressionism and borrow ideas from many sources including Zen Buddhism.... Read full biography
A significant figure in the Bay Area Figurative movement of the San Francisco, Oakland, California area, William Wiley along with Robert Arneson is regarded as a pivotal artist in the transition between the Funk Art of the 1950s rooted in Abstract Expressionism and the more self-conscious, overt Funk Art that followed. He was also a popular teacher at the University of California at Davis. Reviewer Hilton Kramer in 1971 referred to Wiley's work as "Dude Ranch Dada," and he became the leading inspiration for conceptualists who asserted that their life is art. He was anxious to escape what he perceived as the deadly serious, highly self-conscious symbolism of Abstract Expressionism and borrow ideas from many sources including Zen Buddhism. From Richland, Washington, William Wiley credited his high school art teacher, Jim Mc Grath, with giving focus to his early interest in ar... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (96)
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Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society (Exhibition catalog)
2009
Julie Sasse, Chief Curator and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Art
208 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
San Francisco and Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism
2004
Landauer, Susan
240 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary
2002
McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last
231 pages (color)
Lighter Side of Bay Area Figurative
2000
Landauer, Susan
70 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
560 pages (color)
Bay Area Art From Morgan Flagg Collection
1997
Burgard, Timothy Anglin
47 pages (color)
Trompe l'oeil: The Art of Deception (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Dawson, Nancy
6 pages (color)
Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press
1996
Brown, Kathan
287 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years Of Printmaking
1996
Ruzicka, Joseph
220 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
1995
Hansen, Trudy (others)
248 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area
1995
Nash, Steven A
216 pages (color)
The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition)
1994
LeClair, Charles
144 pages
Old Glory The American Flag in Contemporary Art (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Rubin, David S
64 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Robert Hudson/William T Wiley Hudson-Sculpture/ Wiley-Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Belz, Carl
50 pages (color)
West Coast Duchamp
1991
Clearwater, Bonnie (others)
128 pages
Large Scale Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1991
John Berggruen Gallery
47 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Word As Image American Art 1960-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel
172 pages (color)
The Trans Parent Thread Asian Philosophy in Recent American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Gelburd, Gail/Geri De Paoli
124 pages (color)
First Impressions Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Elizabeth
149 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Contemporary Illustrated Books Word and Image, 1967-1988 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Stein, Donna
72 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
Commited to Print (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Wye, Deborah
120 pages
20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art
1987
Cummings, Paul
176 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
William T Wiley What Is Not Drawing (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Louver, L A
32 pages (color)
American Traditions in Watercolor Worcester Art Museum Collection
1987
Strickler, Susan (editor)
232 pages (color)
The Window in Twentieth Century A (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Delehanty, Suzanne
105 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
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)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts
290 pages (color)
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)
Dallas Museum of Art Selected Works
1984
Bromberg, Anne R
219 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
New Art
1984
Freeman, Phyllis
207 pages (color)
American Art Since 1970, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marshall, Richard
124 pages
Art of the States Works from a Santa Barbara Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1984
McDonald, Robert; Richard Vincent West
80 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
A Century of California Landscapes
1983
Gibson, Dunn & Critcher
52 pages (color)
California Contemporary Recent Work of Twenty Three Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Monterey Peninsula Museum
63 pages
The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Museum of Contemporary Art
293 pages (color)
The American Artist as Printmaker (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Walker, Barry
144 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
The Americans/The Collage (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Contemporary Arts Museum
143 pages (color)
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Trenton, Patricia
197 pages (color)
Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art
1981
Cummings, Paul
64 pages
The Image in American Painting and Sculpture 1950-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Danoff, Michael/C K Carr
102 pages (color)
Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California
1981
Hopkins, Henry; Mimi Jacobs (illustration)
128 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney
1981
Whitney Museum
136 pages
American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies (Exhibition catalog)