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William Majors

William Majors (1930 - 1982) was active/lived in New York, California, Indiana, New Hampshire.  William Majors is known for Abstract expressionist painting, collage.

William Majors (born, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1930; died, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1982)

Artist and educator, William Majors' paintings, prints and drawings span over 30 years. A member of the historic Afro American artists' group, Spiral, and extensively exhibiting in New York during the 1960s before moving to teach in California ('69-'71) and subsequently in New England  ('71-'82), the artist taught and lectured at over 20 colleges and universities throughout the country (State University of New York; Cornell University; University of Iowa; The Museum of Modern Art Institute; Rhode Island School of Design; University of New Hampshire; California State College, Hayward;  Oakland College of Art; University of Connecticut, etc.)  With support of a John Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship (1960-61), and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1973), Majors lived in Italy, and traveled in Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands.

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