biografía de Wallace BASSFORD (1900-1998)

Lugar de nacimiento: Saint Louis, MO

Direcciones: NYC; North Truro, MA

Profesión: Painter, instructor, designer

Estudios: St. Louis Sch. FA; Univ. Mo.; Wash. Univ. Sch. Fine Arts; also with Pennell, Hoke, von Schlegell, Wuerpel, Carpenter, Gleeson, Goetch & G E Browne; foreign freelance study.

Exposiciones: Kansas City AI, 1933 (gold); CAM, 1937, 1938, 1945 (prize); St. Louis A. Gld. 1932 (prize), 1944 (prize); SFMA, 1941; All. A. Am., 1945; Joslyn Mem., 1943; Jackson, Miss., 1945; Ogunquit A. Center, 1939; Univ. Illinois; Corcoran Gal, 1947, 1949; MMA; Provincetown AA; CPLH; PAFA, 1952; TMA; CI; BMFA; CAFA (prize); Boston Gardens Festival (Pop Prize); all NE best of art, Silvermine Conn Guild Art; Cape Cod AA (prize); All. A. Am. (prize); Terry AI (prize); Grand Central Art Gal, NYC, 1970s; Palm Beach Galleries, Palm Beach, FL, 1970s

Asociaciones: St. Louis A. Gld.; All. A. Am.; Grand Central A. Gal.; Provincetown AA; Cape Cod AA; Audubon A.

Obra: Mo. State Capitol Bldg.; Boca Raton Fla. Club; Univ. Syracuse; Univ. Mo.; DeBeers Collection

Comentarios: Preferred media: oils, acrylics, graphics. Designer: covers for Literary Digest. Teaching: instr.-dir. figure, still-life & landscape, North Truro Sch. Art, Mass., summers; instr., privately in Palm Beach, FL, winters. Author: Painting the Female Figure (Reinhold).

Fuentes: WW73; WW47.