Biography of willard midgettex
Willard Franklin Midgette was an American painter and printmaker associated with the second generation of Contemporary American Realist painters..
Willard Franklin Midgette ( - ) was active/lived in New York, Oregon, Maryland.
RAiR | 1969-71
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Willard “Bill” Midgette (1937-1978) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and spent most of his later life in Brooklyn, New York interspersed with a few years in New Mexico.
He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Harvard College, Boston University College of Fine Arts, the Pratt Institute and lastly Indiana University where he attained his MFA in 1962. Bill was an Associate Professor of Art at Reed College in 1963-1971.
From 1971 until his death, Bill taught and chaired the art department of St Ann’s School in Brooklyn and taught at Skowhegan in the summers of 1976 and ‘77.
View Willard Franklin Midgette's biographical information, upcoming artworks at auction, and sale prices from our price archives.Bill is perhaps best remembered for his vibrant, mural-sized works of New York City and those depicting life among the Navajo. He is a late example of the American Scene School of painters that included Reginald Marsh, Isabel Bishop and Raphael Soyer.
In 1969 Midgette along with his family came west to Roswell to paint a mural for Don Anderson as part of what w
