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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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Facts about William H Bailey

   Publications  Book References:  49
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William H. Bailey
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The University Gallery-Fine Arts Ce June 2004 Coppola, Regina No
Art & Antiques Gallery Watch March 2003 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
Art & Auction Talk of the Trade March 2000 Tully, Judd Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions October 1999 Editors, Art in America Yes
49 Book References for William H. Bailey
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Julie Sasse An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
165 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1996 Brown, Kathan Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press 287 Yes
1996 Pennington, Estill Curtis Gracious Plenty American Still-Life Art from Southern Collections 127 No
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1994 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Realism 240 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1991 Briganti, Giuliano et al William Bailey 195 Yes
1991 Gruen, John The Artist Observed 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists 324 No
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 John Berggruen Gallery Large Scale Works on Paper
(Exhibition catalog)
47 Yes
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Ward, John L American Realist Painting 1945-1980 431 No
1988 Berggruen, John John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper
(Exhibition catalog)
97 Yes
1988 Sandler, Irving American Art of the 1960s 412 Yes
1988 Wooden, Howard E Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem 212 No
1987 Crane, Diana Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World 1940-1985 194 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Dobkin, John (Preface); John I.H. Baer, (Essay) Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection National Academy of Design
(Exhibition catalog)
120 Yes
1987 Strand, Mark William Bailey 80 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
1984 Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center
(Exhibition catalog)
95 No
1983 Cathcart, Linda L American Still Life 1945-1983
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1983 Goodyear, Frank H Perspectives on Contemporary American Realism
(Exhibition catalog)
91 Yes
1983 Plous, Phyllis A Heritage Renewed Representational Drawing Today
(Exhibition catalog)
87 Yes
1983 Strand, Mark (editor) Art of the Real Nine American Figurative Painters 240 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)
213 No
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)
301 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom (Foreward) 1981 Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
159 No
1981 Danoff, Michael/C K Carr The Image in American Painting and Sculpture 1950-1980
(Exhibition catalog)
102 Yes
1981 Goodyear, Frank H, Jr. Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts) 255 Yes
1981 Pope, Annemarie H Lawrence H Bloedel Collection Loan Exhibition/Whitney/Williams College
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1980 Arthur, John Realism/Photorealism
(Exhibition catalog)
123 Yes
1980 Arthur, John Realist Drawings & Watercolors Contemporary American Works on Papers 144 Yes
1980 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies
(Exhibition catalog)
88 Yes
1977 Cloudman, Ruth H The Chosen Object European and American Still Life
(Exhibition catalog)
66 No
1977 Whitney Museum Lawrence H Bloedel Bequest Selections and Related Works 56 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Kulturmann, Udo New Realism 190 Yes
1973 Tomasini, Wallace (others) Paintings/Midwestern University Collections Seventeenth-Twentieth Centuries 179 Yes
1972 Kahmen, Volker Eroticism in Contemporary Art 282 Yes
1970 Monte, James K 22 Realists
(Exhibition catalog)
54 No
1968 Vassar College Art Gallery Realism Now
(Exhibition catalog)
46 No
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