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Walter Henry Williams

Walter Henry Williams (1920 - 1998) was active/lived in New York, Tennessee / Denmark.  Walter Williams is known for Black child figures playing, landscape, genre, animal, fowl painting, woodcuts.

WALTER HENRY WILLIAMS, JR. (1920-1998)

Walter Henry Williams favorite subjects were black children playing in fields of flowers—reflective perhaps of his own restricted childhood and his lifelong desire for freedom. His mother had encouraged his art making, but she died when he was age five; his father gained custody and was very strict. As a result, Williams became introverted, retreating into a dream world of his own making.

Williams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up there, working as a house painter until he was drafted into the United States Army. He served from 1942 to 1945 in France and was assigned the grim task of burying soldiers. Using the GI Bill, he went to the Brooklyn Museum Art School from 1951 until 1955 where his instructors were Ben Shahn and Reuben Tam. 

He was given a scholarship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine for the summer of 1953, where he roomed with David Driskell; they were the onl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7962 characters.]  Artist bio

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