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1918 Ann Arbor, Michigan - 2006 Mexico City, Mexico. Known for: Surrealism, biomorphic abstract painting.
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, William Fett was a painter in abstract, surrealist style of landscapes, often based on scenes of Mexico. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in... Read full biography
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, William Fett was a painter in abstract, surrealist style of landscapes, often based on scenes of Mexico. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1941. From there he undertook several extended visits to Mexico in making the acquaintance of... Read full biography
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, William Fett was a painter in abstract, surrealist style of landscapes, often based on scenes of Mexico. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1941. From there he undertook several extended visits to Mexico in making the acquaintance of expatriate Surrealist artists who had escaped the unhealthy turmoil of European upheavals by moving to that country. Some of his Mexican watercolors were accorded a one-man show at Durlacher Brothers Gallery... Read full biography
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, William Fett was a painter in abstract, surrealist style of landscapes, often based on scenes of Mexico. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1941. From there he undertook several extended visits to Mexico in making the acquaintance of expatriate Surrealist artists who had escaped the unhealthy turmoil of European upheavals by moving to that country. Some of his Mexican watercolors were accorded a one-man show at Durlacher Brothers Gallery in New York on October 5, 1943. The positive response to the work resulted in acquisition of work by the New York Museum of Modern Art. In 1946, William Fett received appointment as teacher at the Washington University, St. Louis School of Art, a... Read full biography
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, William Fett was a painter in abstract, surrealist style of landscapes, often based on scenes of Mexico. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1941. From there he undertook several extended visits to Mexico in making the acquaintance of expatriate Surrealist artists who had escaped the unhealthy turmoil of European upheavals by moving to that country. Some of his Mexican watercolors were accorded a one-man show at Durlacher Brothers Gallery in New York on October 5, 1943. The positive response to the work resulted in acquisition of work by the New York Museum of Modern Art. In 1946, William Fett received appointment as teacher at the Washington University, St. Louis School of Art, a position he served as Professor of Drawing and Painting to 1981, when he retired as Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts... Read full biography
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Keywords (26)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Female Face and Figure
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Outer Space, Science Fiction
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Italy
- •Mexico and/or Central America
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
- •St. Louis School of Fine Art, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •Fulbright Grant, Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art