William T. Williams (born 1942) is an American painter and educator. He is known for his process-based approach to painting that engages motifs drawn from personal memory and cultural narrative to create non-referential, abstract compositions. He was a Professor of Art at

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from 1971 to 2008. He has exhibited in over 100 museums and art centers in the United States, France, Germany, Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, People's Republic of China and Japan. Williams is a recipient of numerous awards including a John Simon

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, two

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Awards, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. He is also a recipient of the

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's Artist Award in 1992 and received The James Van Dee Zee Award from the Brandywine Workshop for lifetime achievement in the arts in 2005. He received the 2006 North Carolina Award for Fine Arts, the highest civilian honor the state can bestow. Williams lives in both New York City and Connecticut.

Early childhood and education

William T. Williams was born on July 17, 1942, in Cross Creek,

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, United States. Williams is

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. His family moved to

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, New York City at age 4, but he spent his childhood summers in

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. After the family's move to the north, his art talent was recognized by the head of a local community center, who gave him a room there to use as a studio. In 1956, he attended the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan (now the

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), which held many of its art classes at the

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and the

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. In 1962, Williams entered

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to study painting. At Pratt Institute he studied under Richard Lindner,

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, and Richard Bove. During his junior year, he won a summer scholarship to The Skowhegan School of Art, and received a

traveling grant. While in school he explored color field painting. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in 1966 from

; followed by a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in 1968 from

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, School of Art and Architecture.

The late 1960s and the 1970s

Williams quickly gained attention from the mainstream art world. The

acquired his composition "Elbert Jackson L.A.M.F., Part II" in 1969, and by 1970 his work was being exhibited at the

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in the south of France. From 1968 until 1970, Williams helped organize the Smokehouse painters (including Melvin Edwards, Guy Ciarcia, and Billy Rose) to paint murals in Harlem, using a hard-edge style. In 1969 he participated in ''The Black Artist in America: A Symposium'', held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He also took part in numerous exhibitions including the

's Inaugural Show, ''X to the Fourth Power'', and ''New Acquisitions'' held at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1970 Williams was commissioned by the Jewish Museum (New York), and the

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in Houston, Texas. Williams started the artist-in-residency program at the

. Kinshasa Conwill, former director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, says that the program "has become critical to the museum's identity and its contribution to the larger art arena." Williams' first one-man show at New York's Reese Palley Gallery in 1971, resulted in the sale of every painting. The same year, the

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exhibited his work twice; collectors such as

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and

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purchased his art; and his work was featured in both ''

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'' and ''

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'' magazines. Valerie J. Mercer Williams returned home to the dusty unpaved roads of North Carolina for the inspiration of a new palette, one born of the luster and glow of mica, false gold, and fox fire from earth's pulsating cover. Williams' relief from color-field painting was celebrated in the new works completed between 1971 and 1977, such as Equinox and Indian Summer. In 1975 William also took part in an artist in residence program at

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in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1977, Williams participated in the second

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and African Culture in

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(FESTAC). This festival brought together more than 17,000 artists of African descent from 59 countries. It was the largest cultural event ever held on the African continent. Starting in 1979, Williams changed his painting composition style by dividing the canvas into two distinct sections.

The 1980s

In 1982 Williams was included in ''Recent Acquisitions'' of the Schomburg Collection at the Schomburg Center in New York. In 1984 William took part in a show titled ''Since the Harlem Renaissance'', which traveled to the

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and the

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. It also traveled to the

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in Utica, New York, and the

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in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1987 William received the John Simon

. He also was a member of a show that took place in Tokyo, Japan entitled ''The Art of Black America in Japan''. William also took part in ''Contemporary Visual Expressions'', a show at the

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and

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in Washington, D.C.. William's traveled to

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with painter Jack Whitten and sculptors

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and Tyrone Mitchell for the opening of their exhibition Espiritu & Materia at the Museum of Visual Arts, Alejandro Otero.

The 1990s

In 1992 Williams was presented the

Artist's Award for lifetime achievement and his role in creating the artist-in-residence program for the museum. Robert Blackburn first invited Williams to make a print at the Printmaking Workshop in 1975. Over the next 22 years, Williams collaborated with Blackburn to produce 19 editions and a number of unique print projects. His last project at the Printmaking Workshop was in 1997 when he produced a number of monoprints underwritten by art patron, Major Thomas. In 2000 Williams took part in an extensive traveling show entitled ''To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities''. The show organized by the

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in Andover, Massachusetts and the

in New York traveled to eight major museums including the

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, the

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and

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Universities Art museums. In 1994 Williams participated in a

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program titled "Swing Landscapes: Jazz Visualized". The intent of the Jazz Talk program was to explore what it is about jazz that makes its colors, rhythms and characters so attractive to the painter's eye. Williams and author, Alfred Appel, Jr. discussed the influence of

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. This program was part of a New York Citywide celebration honoring the artist

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Late life

In 2005, Williams was invited to create a print at the Brandywine Workshop in conjunction with receiving the James Van Der Zee Award for Lifetime Achievement. Between July and late August he made five trips to Philadelphia, staying several days at a time. These trips yielded four editions and a number of unique hand-colored prints. The Brandywine Workshop located in Philadelphia was founded in 1972 to promote interest and talent in printmaking while cultivating cultural diversity in the arts. In 2006, Williams was a visiting scholar and artist in residence at

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's Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI), which included Williams lecture about his work sponsored by the David L. Sr. and Helen J. Temple Visiting Lecture Series Fund. During this year, Williams' work was also shown at

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in Energy and Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964–1980. In 2006, William T. Williams received the North Carolina Governors Award for Fine Arts by Governor Mike Easley. In 2007, Williams was part of the group exhibition ''What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection'' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Collections

Williams is represented in numerous public museum collections including the

; the

; the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection; the

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;

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; the

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; the

;

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, one of the Harvard Art Museums; the

; the

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; and the

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Awards and grants

*North Carolina Governor's Award for Fine Arts, North Carolina, 2006 *James Van Der Zee Award, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005 *Joan Mitchell Foundation, Grant Award, 1996 *Mid-Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship,1994 *The Studio Museum in Harlem Artist's Award,1992 *John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1987 *City University of New York, Faculty Research Award, Painting, 1987, 1984, 1973 *Creative Arts Public Service Grant, Painting, New York, 1985, 1981 *National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Award, Painting, 1970 *Yale University, Grant for Graduate Study, New Haven, Connecticut, 1966 *National Endowment for the Arts, Traveling Grant, 1965

References

Sources and further reading

*''25 Years of African-American Art: The Studio Museum in Harlem'', The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York 1994 *''African-American Printmaking - 1838 to the Present'', The Rockland Center of the Arts, West Nyack, New York, 1995 *''African American Works on Paper'', The Cochran Collection, Atlanta, Georgia, 1991 *''American Images: The SBC Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art'', New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1996 *American Paintings at Yale University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven 1982 *''Artist and Influence'', Hatch Billops Collection, Inc. New York, Vol. XXIV, 2005, , *''The Chemistry of Color'', The Harold A. and Ann R. Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African- American Art,

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, Philadelphia, *Artists Salute Skowhegan, Kennedy Galleries, New York, *Ashton, Dore; ''American Art Since 1945'', Oxford University Press, 1982 *Ashton, Dore; ''Drawings by New York Artists'', Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 1972 *Ashton, Dore; ''William T. Williams'', Miami-Dade Community College Publication, November 1977 *Ashton, Dore; "Young Abstract Painters; Right On!", ''Arts Magazine'', February 1970 *Baur, John; Whitney Museum of American Art: Catalogue of the Colle, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1974 *"Behind Closed Doors", ''American Visions Magazine'', April 1991, Vol. 6 No 2 *''The Black Artist in America: A Symposium'', The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, January 1969 Vol XXVII No 5 *Bloom, Janet; "In the Museums", ''Arts Magazine'', December 1969 – 1970 * Bowling, Frank, "Discussion on Black Art-II", ''Arts Magazine'', 1970 Vol 3 *Bowling, Frank; "Problems of Criticism", ''Arts Magazine'' Vol. 46 No 7 *"Canvasses Brimming with Color", ''Life Magazine'' September 1971 Vol 71 *''Convergence'', James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Newark, Delaware, *Cortez, Jane; "Conversation with Three Artists", ''

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