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William H Bailey

William H. Bailey (1930 - 2020) was active/lived in Iowa, Connecticut.  William Bailey is 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 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 narrative about Bailey's work. Its calm arrays of pots, jugs, eggs, and bowls make up an ideal form-worl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5507 characters.]  Artist bio

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