Artist: William Baziotes (1912 - 1963)
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
American Abstract Expressionist painter, William Baziotes first worked for the Federal Art Project. Then during World War II, he became interested in Surrealism and the automatist approach to producing art. It wasn’t until the 1950’s that Baziotes developed his signature style of using organic shapes reminiscent of animal or plant forms.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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William Baziotes - Red Landscape 1957 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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William Baziotes - Primeval 1952 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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William Baziotes - Watercolor #4 1958 watercolor and penci Hirshhorn Museum American
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William Baziotes - Watercolor #2 1958 watercolor with penc Hirshhorn Museum American
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William Baziotes - Watercolor #1 1958 watercolor with penc Hirshhorn Museum American
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William Baziotes - Flower Head c. 1940's oil on canvas Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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William Baziotes - Water Form 1947 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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William Baziotes - Green Night 1957 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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William Baziotes - Scepter 1960-1961 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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William Baziotes - Moon Animal 1950 oil on canvas Krannert Art Museum American
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William Baziotes - Figures in Seascape 1947 Watercolor, pen, and Birmingham Museum of Art
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William Baziotes - Watercolor #3/ Verso: Cancelled Watercolor 1958 watercolor and penci Hirshhorn Museum American
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William Baziotes - Primeval Wall ("A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."), from the series Great Ideas of Western Man 1959 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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William Faithorne , The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior, William, Youngest Son of Lord William Russell, 18th - 19th century
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Adriaen Pynacker, William of Orange (William III) Commemorative Plate, 1690
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William Page - Mrs. William Page 1860-61 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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William Henry Watt, William Lourdsworth, 19th century
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Arthur William Devis - The Hon. William Monson and His Wife, Ann Debonnaire c. 1786 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art English
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William Faithorne , Hot to Guide Your Needles..., plate 4 opposite page 12 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , Hot to Choose Your Needles..., plate 3 opposite page 10 in te book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , How to Dry or Harden the Varnish..., plate 2 opposite page 9 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , How to Use the Oval Points..., plate 5 opposite page 15 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Hancock Wilke, William Andrew Clark, Jr., 19th - 20th century
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William Dickinson, Portrait of the Reverend William Preston, 18th - 19th century
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William Nicholson, London Types (London: William Heinemann, 1898), 1898
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William Matthew Prior, Isaac Josiah and William Mulford Hand, circa 1845
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William Page - Colonel William Leete Stone 1839 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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William Faithorne , At the upper end of the plate you have the woman"s arm..., plate 8 opposite page 22 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , The forms of graving-tools, plate 9 opposite page 43 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne(London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Faithorne , How to apply your hard Varnish..., plate 1 opposite page 7 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Fares, Untitled, 1974
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William T. Wiley, A Suite of Daze by William T. Wiley (Chicago: Landfall Press Inc., 1977)., 1977
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William Bagdatopoulos - Dr. William Henry Holmes 1929 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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William Faithorne , How to apply ye Aqua Fortis upon ye Plate, plate 6 opposite page 18 in the book, The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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William Merritt Chase - Portrait of President William Waugh Smith 1907 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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William Nicholson, An Almanac of Twelve Sports (London: William Heinemann, 1898), 1898
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William Gilpin, An Essay upon Prints by William Gilpin (London: J. Robson, 1768), 1768
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William Henry Bartlett, The Danube by William Beattie (London & New York: Virtue & Co., [ca. 1840]), 1840
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William Faithorne , The manner of Casting the Aqua Fortis Upon the Plate, plate 7 opposite page 19 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (5)
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Butler Institute of American Art: WILLIAM BAZIOTES: THE POETIC SPIRIT
The exhibition, organized by the Butler Institute in association with Joseph Helman, includes twenty six works and is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue with entries by the artist’s wid...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Jackson Pollock, Robert Frank, and the New American Vision: Drawings and Photographs from the Fo
In photography, Harry Callahan, Nathan Lyons, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White followed diverse paths in the pursuit of abstraction. ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Placing Avery
Milton Avery had a strong, “Connecticut Yankee” work ethic. He painted for 50 years, some times spending all day for weeks at a time at his easel, and sometimes creating as many as five or six paintings or studies in one day.  He’s been quoted as...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
National Academy: Surrealism USA: Between 1930 and 1950
One of the most revolutionary artistic and intellectual movements of the twentieth century, Surrealism still exerts a strong appeal today, more than fifty years after its heyday. The profound influence that this world of fantasy and dream had on a...

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