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Willard Midgette

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Willard Franklin Midgette (1937 - 1978) was active/lived in New York, Oregon, Maryland.  Willard Midgette is known for Post-real figure and Indian genre painting.

Baltimore-born artist Willard Midgette was associated with the second generation of contemporary American realist painters.  He studied and later taught at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; and also studied at Harvard College, earning a B.A. in 1959; at Boston University College of Fine Art; Pratt Institute; and Indiana University where he earned an M.F.A. in 1962. 

He was an Associate Professor of Art at Reed College from 1963 to 1971, and  then had a year's sabbatical in Roswell, New Mexico at The Roswell Arist-in-Residence Foundation.  From 1971 until his death, he was artist-in-residence and chair of the Art Department at St. Ann's School in Brooklyn.

Midgette's mature style, was characterized by life-size figures, mostly clothed, in a space that could be seen as a continuation of the viewers' space.

He was a great admirer of Annibale Carracci and other trompe l'oeil 15th- to 17th-century Italian painters. He spoke of creatin   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1432 characters.]  Artist bio

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18 Book References for Willard Midgette
Year Author Title Pages Color
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
2002 Komanecky, Michael K. (editor) Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights 352 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Watkins, T H/Joan P Watkins Western Art Masterpieces 119 Yes
1994 Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell Paintings of the Southwest 128 No
1990 Axelrod, Alan Art of the Golden West 418 Yes
1989 Ward, John L American Realist Painting 1945-1980 431 No
1987 Crane, Diana Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World 1940-1985 194 No
1984 Broder, Patricia Janis The American West The Modern Vision 345 Yes
1984 Witt, David L The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary 63 No
1981 Goodyear, Frank H, Jr. Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts) 255 Yes
1980 Arthur, John Realist Drawings & Watercolors Contemporary American Works on Papers 144 Yes
1980 Ballinger, James K Visitors to Arizona 1846-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 206 Yes
1980 Styron, Thomas W American Figure Painting 1950-198
(Exhibition catalog)		 115 Yes
1976 Hickey, David Willard Midgette Indians
(Exhibition catalog)		 12 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Battcock, Gregory (editor) Super Realism: A Critical Anthology 322 Yes
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