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Born 1960 Houston, Texas. Known for: Indian/Hispanic genre-figure and landscape painting.
Growing up in New Jersey, William Kalwick Jr. established a studio in Houston, Texas, from where he travels to Guatemala to paint the people and their colorful costumes, a subject that has become his... Read full biography
Growing up in New Jersey, William Kalwick Jr. established a studio in Houston, Texas, from where he travels to Guatemala to paint the people and their colorful costumes, a subject that has become his signature work. He was encouraged in his art talent by his father, William Kalwick, Sr., an artist,... Read full biography
Growing up in New Jersey, William Kalwick Jr. established a studio in Houston, Texas, from where he travels to Guatemala to paint the people and their colorful costumes, a subject that has become his signature work. He was encouraged in his art talent by his father, William Kalwick, Sr., an artist, and he took classes at the Art Students League in New York where he studied with his father's teacher, Lajos Markos. This influence set the course of Kalwick's painting career. Markos moved to... Read full biography
Growing up in New Jersey, William Kalwick Jr. established a studio in Houston, Texas, from where he travels to Guatemala to paint the people and their colorful costumes, a subject that has become his signature work. He was encouraged in his art talent by his father, William Kalwick, Sr., an artist, and he took classes at the Art Students League in New York where he studied with his father's teacher, Lajos Markos. This influence set the course of Kalwick's painting career. Markos moved to Houston, and Kalwick followed him there and painted with Markos every day for five years. He credits Markos with teaching him "everything" about light, values, stretching canvases, etc. With him, he painted hundreds of still lifes, landscapes, and... Read full biography
Growing up in New Jersey, William Kalwick Jr. established a studio in Houston, Texas, from where he travels to Guatemala to paint the people and their colorful costumes, a subject that has become his signature work. He was encouraged in his art talent by his father, William Kalwick, Sr., an artist, and he took classes at the Art Students League in New York where he studied with his father's teacher, Lajos Markos. This influence set the course of Kalwick's painting career. Markos moved to Houston, and Kalwick followed him there and painted with Markos every day for five years. He credits Markos with teaching him "everything" about light, values, stretching canvases, etc. With him, he painted hundreds of still lifes, landscapes, and portraits, and they painted in many locations from Venice to West Texas. Markos also encouraged him to copy Old Master paintings such as Caravag... Read full biography
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Keywords (19)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Media
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native American Specialty
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Venice, Italy
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
- •Prix de West Invitational