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Reclining Nude

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William Bailey
1930-

Reclining Nude

1968
14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Graphite on paper.
2019.74

Gift of John Boles & Connie Ross.

Notes
Bailey is a figurative painter and draftsman best known for serene images of groups of vessels on a tabletop. Following army service, he worked briefly as a technical draftsman for a steel company. He later studied art with Josef Albers at Yale University and eventually joined the faculty there. This delicately drawn image of a reclining female nude was made from a model, though he rarely used models for his paintings. "Drawing is very important to me," he once told an interviewer, because "it challenges me in a way that nothing else does. Drawing is putting together, forming something with minimal means."
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated lower right, "Bailey 1968."
Classification
Century Drawings