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b. 1930, Council Bluffs, IA
William Bailey is best known for his paintings that hover between the abstract and the hyperrealistic. Bailey often depicts assorted bowls, vases, cups, and other vessels, as well as nude and clothed women. Though these works are perfectly textured, detailed, colored, and designed, he does not create these subjects from reality, but rather from memory and the imagination.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
