William Bailey

Bailey graduated from Yale with his BFA in 1955 and an MFA in 1957. He has remained on campus, at least in part, as a professor of painting for the Yale School of Art. Since the early 1970s, Bailey has also been returning regularly to Italy. Significant solo exhibitions in his career have come at the City University of New York, Queens College (1972), the Tyler School of Art, Temple University (1972); André Emmerich Gallery, New York (1992); Southern Methodist University, Dallas (1993). -----William H.Bailey b. 1930Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, William Bailey became a painter in styles ranging from abstraction to super-real. He earned his B.F.A. and M.F.A. at Yale University and studied with Josef Albers and also had an Alice Kimball English traveling scholarship. From 1962 to 1969, he taught at Indiana University, and from 1969, was a professor of art at Yale University. He lives and works in Branford, CT and is a member of the National Academy of Design.Source: Askart.com