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1930 Council Bluffs, Iowa - 2020 Branford, Connecticut. Known for: Idealized still life and female nude figure painting, teaching.
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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Keywords (32)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Photo Realism, Hyperrealism, Super Realism
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
- •Trompe l'oeil
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Art Teacher
- •Josef Albers
Art School
- •Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
- •Yale University School of Fine Art, and Architecture, Teacher
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Lawrence H. Bloedel Collection
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Museum
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art