William Baziotes
William Baziotes | |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , US | |
Died | June 6, 1963 New York City, US | (aged 50)
Education | National Academy of Design |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Abstract expressionism |
William Baziotes (June 11, 1912 – June 6, 1963) was an American painter influenced by
Life and career
Born in
In the 1940s he became friends with many artists in the emerging
In 1948, Baziotes, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman and David Hare founded the Subjects of the Artist School at 35 East 8th Street. Well attended lectures there were open to the public, with speakers such as Jean Arp, John Cage and Ad Reinhardt, but the art school failed financially and closed in the spring of 1949.[2][3][4] He later taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School,[1] People's Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and at the City University of New York, Hunter College and New York University[1] in Manhattan during the last ten years of his life.
Baziotes and his wife Ethel, whom he married in 1941,[1] lived in the Morningside Heights area of northern Manhattan until his death from lung cancer[5] in June 1963, five days before his 51st birthday. During his lifetime, he and his wife shared a love of ancient Greek art and sculpture as well as the poetry of Charles Baudelaire. Many of his paintings are inspired by the latter's poetry as well as by ancient art.
Some of his famous works are Aquatic, Dusk, and The Room, all of which are in the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Notable awards
Notable exhibitions
William Baziotes, Paintings and Drawings, 1934–1962. Guggenheim Collection Venice, 2003–2004. Curated by Michael Preble, editor, William Baziotes Catalogue Raisonne. William Baziotes, A Retrospective. Newport Harbor Art Museum/Orange County Museum of Art. 1978. Curated by Michael Preble.
Notable collections
- Guggenheim Museum[6]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of Modern Art
- Smithsonian American Art Museum[1]
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Reading Public Museum
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h "William and Ethel Baziotes papers, 1916-1992". Research collections. Archives of American Art. 2005. Retrieved 30 Jun 2011.
- ^ "Subject of the Artist | art school". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
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- ^ Breslin, p. 223.
- ^ "William Baziotes Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works - The Art Story".
- ^ "Collection Online".
References
- Michael Preble 2005: William Baziotes. Skira Publishing.
- Mona Hadler:2013 "Baziotes, Surrealism, and Boxing: 'Life in a Squared Ring,'" The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914–1945, IX,1 (December, 2013), pp. 119–138