Still Life with Eggs, Candlestick and Bowl from America: The Third Century

William BaileyWW-1975-M061001

1975·Collotype from a portfolio of five lithograph and screenprints, three collotypes, three screenprints, and two lithographs·composition and sheet: 29 15/16 x 22 1/16" (76 x 56.1cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1975
Medium: Collotype from a portfolio of five lithograph and screenprints, three collotypes, three screenprints, and two lithographs
Dimensions: composition and sheet: 29 15/16 x 22 1/16" (76 x 56.1cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: William Bailey

Artist

William Bailey

Drawing

William Bailey was an American painter known for spare, geometrically ordered still lifes and interior scenes rendered in muted tones and classical compositions. Working primarily in oil, he developed a distinctive approach to form and light that emphasized clarity of structure over decorative surface. His practice, rooted in careful observation and restraint, sustained a commitment to figuration and ordered space throughout the postwar period and beyond.

Council Bluffs, United States

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