William H. Bailey (November 17, 1930 – April 13, 2020) was an American artist and university professor. He was the Kingman Brewster Professor Emeritus of Art at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

.Baker, Doris
"The ‘made up’ world of artist William Bailey,"
''Yale News,'' December 10, 2010; retrieved 2013-4-19. He is best known as a contemporary realist painter.

Early life

Bailey was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. "William H. Bailey" at artnet.com
retrieved 2013-4-19. He studied from 1948 to 1951 at the School of Fine Arts at the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. T ...

. His student days were interrupted from 1951 to 1953. Bailey was a sergeant in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. He served in Japan and Korea. After his army days were over, he earned a B.F.A. (1955) and an M.F.A. (1957) at Yale. He studied with

Josef Albers Josef Albers (; ; March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born artist and educator. The first living artist to be given a solo show at MoMA and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he taught at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College ...

Career

Bailey's career as a working artist developed over time. He was best known as a figurative painter whose work is in major collections, including the

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in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the

National Museum of American Art The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds ...

in Washington, D.C. He was a professor of art at Yale from 1969 to 1995. Bailey died in 2020, at the age of 89.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Bailey, OCLC/

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encompasses roughly 40+ works in 60+ publications in 5 languages and 2,100 library holdings. WorldCat IdentitiesBailey, William 1930–
/ref> * ''William Bailey: studio fictions'' (1999) * ''William Bailey: peintures et dessins'' (2001) ** ''William Bailey on paper'' (2006)

References

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