biografía de Walter Henry WILLIAMS (1920-1998)

Lugar de nacimiento: Brooklyn, NY

Direcciones: NYC 1950s-60s; Copenhagen, Denmark

Profesión: Painter, printmaker

Estudios: Brooklyn Mus. Art School, 1951-55; Skowhegan School Painting & Sculpture, summer 1953 (scholarship); also with Ben Shahn, spring 1952.

Exposiciones: WMAA Ann., 1953-63 (5 shows); Roko Gallery, NYC, 1954 (solo), 1962 (solo), 1963 (solo); Gallery Noa Poa, Copenhagen, 1956 (solo); Portland MA, 1958; Instituto Nacional de Dellas Artes, Mexico, 1958; Texas Southern Univ., 1962 (solo); Mexican-North American Cultural Inst., Mexico City, 1963 (solo); Int. Watercolor Biennial, Brooklyn Mus., 1963; Corner, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1963; Gallery Brinken, Stockholm, 1965 (solo); Studio 183, Sydney, Australia, 1965 (solo); Musée D'Art et D'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland, 1965; The Little Gallery, Phila., 1966 (solo); PAFA Ann., 1966; Alabama Academy of Arts, 1966; White House, Wash., DC, 1966; Univ. Calif., Los Angeles Gals., 1966; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Dartmouth College, 1967; Albright-Knox Mus., Buffalo, 1967; Syracuse Univ., 1967; New Britain (CT) Mus. Am. Art, 1967; 50 Years of Afro-Am. Art, Phila.; Gallery Marya, Copenhagen, 1967 (solo); Fisk Univ., 1967-68, 1969 (solo); Stephens College, Columbus, MO, 1968; St. Augustine College, Raleigh; Utica (NY) College; Talladega (AL) College, 1968; Jarvis Christian College, Hawkins, TX, 1968; Univ. Cincinnati, 1969; Xavier Univ., 1969; Jackson State College, 1969 (solo); Lane College, Jackson, TN; Shaw Univ., Raleigh; Smithsonian Inst.; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, TN; Illinois Bell traveling show, 1971; Berea (KY) College (solo); NAD, 147th Ann., 1972; Terry Dintenfass Inc., NYC, 1970s. Awards: John Hay Whitney Foundation fellowship, 1955; NIAL grant, 1960; Silvermine Award, 1963; Adolph & Clara Obrig Prize, NAD, 1972.

Asociaciones: Billed Kunstnernes Forbund, Denmark.

Obra: WMAA; Brooklyn Mus.; Riverside Mus., New York; MMA; Cincinnati Art Mus.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Nat. Gallery Arts, Washington, DC; Texas Southern Univ., Houston; Mexican American Inst., Mexico City; PMA; Syracuse Univ.; Lowe Art Center, NYC; School of FA, PA; Univ. Georgia; Tucson, AZ, Public Schools; Oberlin (OH) College; Bellarmine College Lib., KY; Dartmouth College; Print Council of America, NYC; Skowhegan (ME) School of Painting & Sculpture; Howard Univ.; Smithonian Inst.; Univ.Redlands, CA

Comentarios: Teaching: artist-in-residence, Fisk Univ., 1968-69.

Fuentes: WW73; Cedric Dover, American Negro Art (Studio, London, 1958); Janet Erickson & Adelaide Sproul, Printmaking without a Press (Reinhold, 1967); Cederholm, Afro-American Artists; Falk, Exh. Record Series.