Biography
William Bailey
Born
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1930 |
Council Bluffs, Iowa |
Education
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1957 |
M.F.A., School of Art, Yale University |
| 1955 | B.F.A., School of Art, Yale University |
| 1951-53 | United States Army, Sergeant in Japan and Korea |
| 1948-51 | School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas |
Solo Exhibitions
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2012 |
William Bailey, Betty Cuningham, New York, NY |
| 2011 | William Bailey Works on Paper, Gallery at the Whitney, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University |
| 2010 | William Bailey, Betty Cuningham, New York, NY |
| 2009 | William Bailey: Paintings, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX |
| 2008 | William Bailey: Still Life/Figure, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME |
| 2007 | William Bailey, Paintings, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY |
| William Bailey, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA | |
| 2006 | William Bailey, Paintings, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX |
| 2005 | William Bailey, Betty Cuningham, New York, NY |
| William Bailey, Drawings and Prints, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME | |
| 2003-04 | Anderson Gallery of Contemporary Graphic Art, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts William Bailey Prints and Drawings 1973-2003, Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, (October 8, 2003 – February 8, 2004) |
| 2003 | William Bailey, Robert Miller Gallery, New York |
| 2000 | William Bailey Drawings and Paintings, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris |
| 1999 | Robert Miller Gallery, New York, "William Bailey: Studio Fictions" |
| 1998 | Crown Point Gallery, San Francisco |
| Alpha Gallery, Boston | |
| 1997 | Galleria d'Arte il Gabbiano, Rome |
| 1995 | State University of New York at Binghampton, University Art Museum |
| André Emmerich Gallery, New York | |
| 1994 | Galleria Appiani Arte Trentadue, Milan |
| André Emmerich Gallery, New York, "William Bailey: Selected Works, 1964-1994" (March 2 – April 9) | |
| Betsy Senior Gallery, New York [Prints] | |
| 1993 | Columbus College, Columbus, GA |
| Galleria d'Arte il Gabbiano, Rome | |
| 1992 | André Emmerich Gallery, New York, William Bailey: New Work |
| 1991 | Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York |
| Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI | |
| 1989 | Fairfield Artist of the Year, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT |
| 1988 | John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco "William Bailey Recent Paintings and Drawings" (November 22 – December 31) |
| Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence | |
| 1987 | FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris (Galleria d'Arte il Gabbiano, Rome) |
| Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, OH | |
| 1986 | Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, "William Bailey: Recent Paintings" |
| 1985 | Galleria d'Arte il Gabbiano, Rome [Drawings and Prints] |
| 1984 | The American Academy in Rome |
| Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City [Drawings] | |
| 1983 | Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas |
| 1982 | Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, "William Bailey: Recent Paintings" |
| 1980 | Galleria d'Arte il Gabbiano, Rome |
| 1979 | Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, "William Bailey: Recent Paintings" (January 6 – February 10) |
| Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC | |
| 1978 | Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, "William Bailey: Peintures" |
| 1976 | Dart Gallery, Chicago [Drawings] |
| 1975 | Polk Museum, Lakeland, FL (exhibition traveled to Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale) |
| 1974 | Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York |
| 1973 | Galleria il Fante di Spade, Rome |
| Galleria la Parisina, Turin | |
| Galleria dei Lanzi, Milan | |
| 1972 | Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia [Drawings] |
| Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing | |
| 1971 | Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York [Paintings and Drawings] |
| 1969 | Nasson College, Springvale, ME [Maine Drawings] |
| 1968 | Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York [Paintings and Drawings] |
| 1967 | Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City [Paintings and Drawings] |
| 1963 | Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington [Paintings and Drawings] |
| 1961 | Kanegis Gallery, Boston [Paintings and Drawings] |
| 1958 | Kanegis Gallery, Boston [Paintings and Drawings] |
| 1957 | Kanegis Gallery, Boston [Paintings and Drawings] |
| 1956 | Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington |
Group Exhibitions
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2004 |
New York Academy of Art, New York, "When I Think About You I Touch Myself" (April 1 – May 14) |
| 2001-02 | J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, "Figuration" (November 30, 2001 – January 31, 2002) |
| 2001 | National Academy of Design, New York, "176th Annual Exhibition" |
| 2000-01 | Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY "The Figure: Another Side of Modernism" |
| 2000 | The Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, NY, Interiors (March 12 – April 8) |
| Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA, "Portraits and Figures" | |
| 1999-2000 | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, "Contemporary American Realist Drawings. The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago" (November 6, 1999 – January 2, 2000) |
| 1999 | Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN, Contemporary Realism |
| 1998 | National Academy Museum, New York, "173rd Annual Exhibition" |
| National Academy Museum, New York, "The Academy and American Art: Highlights from the Collection" | |
| Forum Gallery, New York, "It's Still Life" (June 30 – September 12) | |
| 1997-98 | National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "Thirty-five Years of Crown Point Press" (June 8 – September 1); (traveled to Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (October 4, 1997 – January 4, 1998) |
| 1996 | Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, "Master Printers – Masterpieces" (February) |
| 1995 | Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "The Herbert W. Plimpton Collection of Realist Art" (March 24 – July 31) |
| 1994 | Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Still Life in the 20th Century: Selections from the Weatherspoon Collection" |
| Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, "The Body" | |
| 1993 | Whitney Museum Branches, New York, "Influences" |
| Marianne Friedman Gallery, Naples, FL, "Masterworks Modern and Contemporary" | |
| Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, "Drawings by American Artists" | |
| Calrsten Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, "Drawing on the Figure" (March 28 – April 25) | |
| Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, Yale Collects Art (April 30 – July 31) | |
| Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, American Still Life | |
| 1992 | Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan, American Realism & "Figurative Art: 1952 – 1990" (February 22 – March 29) |
| 1991 | John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Large Scale Works on Paper |
| Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, Connecticut Biennial II | |
| Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, "Image and Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art" (January23 – March 20) | |
| Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan, American Realism and Figurative Art (exhibition traveled to Tokushima Modern Art Museum; Miyagi Museum of Art; Sogo Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, Shiga; Kochi Prefectural Museum) | |
| 1990 | Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, "Underneath It All: Work on Paper by Selected Artists" |
| Gallery Henoch, New York, "Objects Observed: Contemporary Still Life" | |
| Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, "Benefit for Aids Research" | |
| FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris (Galleria d'Arte il Gabbiano, Rome) | |
| 1989 | John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, "Paintings and Works on Paper" |
| Belk Art Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, "Drawing: Points of View" | |
| Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York, "From the Model/Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art" | |
| 1988 | Chauncy McCormick Gallery, Chicago, "Chicago Collects: Selection from the Collection of Dr. Eugene A. Solow" |
| Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, "A Decade of American Drawing 1980 – 1989" | |
| Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK, "Drawings" | |
| 1987-88 | National Academy of Design, New York, "Realism Today" |
| 1987 | University of Northern Iowa Museum, Cedar Falls, "The Homecoming" |
| Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, Faculty Exhibition | |
| 1986 | Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC, "American Drawings: Realism/Idealism" |
| The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, "Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards" | |
| 1985-86 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, "American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss" (exhibition traveled to DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI) |
| 1985 | The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, "American Art Today: Still Life" |
| Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, "A Decade of American Realism 1975-1985" | |
| Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, "Focus on Realism: Selections from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss" | |
| Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, "Visiting Artists" | |
| Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, "Recent American Portraiture" | |
| One Penn Plaza, New York, "Contemporary American Still Life" | |
| Gallery North, Setauket, RI, "Umbria: Americans Painting in Italy" | |
| 1984 | Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, "Invitational Drawing Exhibition" |
| The Mainland Museum of Texas City, TX, "New York Realism: Small Works and Preliminary Sketches" | |
| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Print Acquisitions 1974-84" | |
| Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, "Recent American Still Life Painting" | |
| University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, "Realism: Drawings and Watercolors" | |
| Palazzo Valsecchi, Milan, "L'immagine e il suo doppio" | |
| Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA, "Parasol and Simca:" "Two Presses – Two Processes" | |
| Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, "Mark Strand Collection" | |
| 1983 | Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, "American Still Life 1945-1983" (exhibition traveled to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR) |
| University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, "A Heritage Renewed: Representational Drawing Today" (March 2 – April 17); (exhibition traveled to Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City (June 26 – August 7); Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison (August 21 – October 9); Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs (November 5 – December 18) | |
| 1982-83 | Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, "Perspectives on Contemporary American Realism: Works of Art on Paper from the Collection of Jalane and Richard Davidson" (December 17, 1982 – February 20, 1983); (exhibition traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago (April 1 – May 20) |
| 1982 | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, "100 Years of Western Art from Pittsburgh Collections" (February 13 – April 4) |
| 1981-83 | Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, "Contemporary American Realism Since 1960" (September 18 – December 13, 1981); (exhibition traveled to Oakland Museum of California, Oakland (February 1 – March 28, 1982); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond |
| 1981 | Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "20 Artists: Yale School of Art, 1950-1970" (January 29 – March 29) |
| Haus der Kunst, Munich, "American Painting 1930-1980" (organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York) | |
| New York Historical Society, New York, "Collaboration: Artists and Architects" (March 5 – June 7) | |
| The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, "Sixteen Contemporary American Painters" (October 21 – November 29) | |
| Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, "The Image in American Painting and Sculpture: 1950-1980" (September 12 – November 8) | |
| 1980 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "The Whitney Museum and the Figurative Tradition" |
| Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, "Still Life Today" | |
| Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, Aspects of the 70s: "Directions in Realism" (May 17 – August 24) | |
| Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, "Realism/Photorealism" | |
| 1979 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "American Painting of the 60s and 70s: The Real, The Ideal, The Fantastic" |
| Landmark Gallery, New York, Drawings 1979 | |
| Artist's Choice Museum, New York, "Artists Choose: Figurative/Realist Art" | |
| 1978 | Union Carbide Building, New York, "Five Painters from The American Academy in Rome" Paris, Salon de Mai |
| Harold Reed Gallery, New York, "Selected 20th Century American Nudes" | |
| 1977 | Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, "Biennale Internazionale" |
| Galleria Giulia, Rome, "Stanze" | |
| The American Academy in Rome, "William Bailey and Constantino Nivola" | |
| 1975-76 | Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, FL, "Figure as Form: American Painting 1930-1975" (November 11, 1975 – January 4, 1976); (exhibition traveled to University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa (January 12 – February 2); Museum of Arts and Crafts, Inc., Columbus, GA (March 8 – April 4) |
| 1975 | St. John's University, Jamaica, NY, "The Figure in Recent American Painting" |
| New York Cultural Center, New York, "The Nude in 200 Years of American Painting" | |
| Knoedler Graphics, New York, "William Bailey and Brice Marden: Recent Prints" | |
| Pace Gallery, New York, "America, the Third Century" | |
| Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, "Images of an Era – The American Poster 1945-1975" | |
| 1974 | Fred P. Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky State University, Richmond, "A Century of American Paintings: Centennial Exhibition" (January 13 – February 8) |
| Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Seven Realists" (March 28 – June 2) | |
| Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, "Living American Artists and the Figure" | |
| Frederick Gallery, Washington, DC, "Soft Line Drawing" | |
| 1973 | New York Cultural Center, New York, "Realist Revival" |
| 1972 | Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, "Five Figurative Artists" (exhibition traveled to Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH) |
| Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Realism (traveling exhibition throughout U.S.) | |
| Riccione, Italy, "Confronto sulle realità" | |
| 1971 | The American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, Childe Hassam "Purchase Exhibition" |
| Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, "Realist Painters" (exhibition traveled to University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque) | |
| University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | |
| 1970 | The American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, "Childe Hassam Purchase Exhibition" |
| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "22 Realists" (exhibition traveled to The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME) | |
| 1969 | St. Paul Art Center, St. Paul, MN, "Drawings U.S.A.. 1968" |
| St. Cloud State College, St. Cloud, MN, "New Realism 1970" | |
| 1968 | Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, "The Big Figure" |
| The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, "Realism Now" | |
| Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York College at Cortland, "Drawings by Six Artists" | |
| Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, "American Art on the Market Today V" | |
| 1967 | Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Art on Paper" |
| 1964 | University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, The Figure, Drawings 1500-1964 |
| 1963 | D'Arcy Gallery, New York, "Contemporary American and Italian Drawings" University of Kentucky, Graphics 1963 |
| 1962 | Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts, New Canaan, CT, "Five New England Artists" |
| 1961 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture" |
| 1960 | Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, "Image and Idea" |
| Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, "View of 1960" | |
| 1959 | Art in America, New York, "New Talent 1959" |
| Metropolitan Young Artists Exhibition, New York | |
| 1957 | Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston "Selection 1957" |
Awards
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1993 |
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY |
| 1992 | Elected Accademico di Merito, Accademia di Belle Arti Pietro Vanucci, Perugia |
| 1991 | Elected Accademico, Accademia di San Luca, Rome |
| 1987 | Honorary Doctor of Humanities, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT |
| 1986 | Elected Member of The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters |
| 1985 | Yale Arts Medal for Distinguished Contribution in Painting |
| 1982 | Elected to the National Academy of Design |
| 1976-77 | Visiting Artist, The American Academy in Rome |
| 1975 | Ingram-Merrill Foundation Grant for Painting |
| 1965 | Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting |
| 1958 | Boston Arts Festival, First Prize in Painting |
| 1955 | Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship |
Academic Appointments
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1982-83 |
Meadows Distinguished Visiting Professor, Southern Methodist University |
| 1995-present | Kingman Brewster Professor of Art Emeritus, Yale University |
| 1979-95 | Kingman Brewster Professor of Art, Yale University |
| 1975 | Andrew Carnegie Visiting Professor, The Cooper Union |
| 1974 | Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1973-96 | Professor of Art, Yale University |
| 1969-73 | Professor (Adjunct) of Art, Yale University |
| 1968-69 | Professor of Fine Arts, Indiana University |
| 1965-68 | Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Indiana University |
| 1962-65 | Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Indiana University |
| 1961-62 | Assistant Professor Drawing and Painting, Yale University |
| 1957-61 | Instructor in Drawing, Yale University |
| 1956-57 | Assistant in Instruction, Yale University |
Other
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1992-97 |
Member, National Council on the Arts, Washington, DC |
| 1985-present | Member of Corporation, YADDO |
| 1985 | Selection Committee, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center |
| Selection Committee, New York Foundation of the Arts | |
| 1983-87 | Member, Board of Directors, College Art Association of America |
| 1970-present | Trustee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation |
| 1960 | American Specialist Grant – Toured Burma, Taiwan and Philippines |
Public Collections
| The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock | |
| The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago | |
| Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville | |
| Chemical Bank, New York | |
| Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO | |
| California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco | |
| General Mills Corporation, Minneapolis | |
| The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC | |
| The Hyde Collection, Glenn Falls, NY | |
| Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington | |
| The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis | |
| J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY | |
| J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation, New York | |
| Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI | |
| Lehman Brothers Shearson American Express, New York | |
| Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN | |
| The Mobil Corporation, New York | |
| Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ | |
| Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |
| The Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
| National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC | |
| National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC | |
| Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase | |
| The New York Times, New York | |
| Ing. C. Olivetti & C., S. p. A., Ivrea, Italy | |
| Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia | |
| Pennsylvania State University, University Park | |
| Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA | |
| The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis | |
| Städtisches Sürmondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Germany | |
| State University of New York at Cortland, Cortland | |
| University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque | |
| University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | |
| Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro | |
| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS | |
| William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs | |
| Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA | |
| Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |