William A. Berry (1933-2010)
Artist, Illustrator, Photographer, Professor, Designer, Author
University of Texas (BFA), University of Southern California (MFA)
Curators' Professor of Art, Emeritus, and past Chair, Art Department, University of Missouri; Boston University; Wesleyan University, CT, (Summer School); Lacoste School of the Arts, France; University of Texas, Austin
Galleria Schneider, Rome, Italy; USIA Gallery, Athens, Greece; Middle East House; Gallery of Southwest Texas State University; Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA; Rhode Island School of Design Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy; Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco; Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; University of Missouri; Luther College, Decorah, Iowa; Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga California; Three year traveling exhibition of 32 drawings sponsored by the Mid-America Arts Alliance in partnership in the National Endowment for the Arts.
Work shown in over 500 National Juried Exhibitions. Prizes awarded in over 120 juried exhibitions.
Prominent jurors selecting work for national competitive exhibitions include: Thomas N. Armstrong, III, Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art (1974-1990); Ann Percy, Curator of Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1972-present); Henry Hopkins, Director of the Weisman Collection, Los Angeles, former Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art; Douglas Schultz, Director, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo New York (1983-2002); Ofelia Garcia, President, Atlanta College of Art (1986-1991); Ted Potter, Director Southeastern Center for the Visual Arts (1967-1991); Richard Koshalek, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1980-1999); Evan Turner, Director Cleveland Museum of Art (1983-1993), Past Director, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; M. Stephen Doherty, Editor in Chief, American Artist Magazine.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA; Parkersburg Art Center, WV; Hallmark Collection; Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University; Fidelity Investments; Glenn Lowry (Director MOMA); Wanda Landowska (estate); Helen Hayes (estate); Craig Lucas (playwright); Joyce and Ken Volk; Lia and William Poorvu.
Mid-America Art Alliance/National Endowment of the Arts Award for Paintings and Works on Paper. $5000.
Named Curators’ Professor, University of Missouri 1991- highest honor awarded to a faculty member—the 11th such award in the 23 year old history of the title.
Artist in Residence at: MacDowell Colony; Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic; Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California; Carmargo Foundation, Cassis, France; Lacoste School for the Arts, France; Rockefeller Foundation, Villa Serbelloni, Italy.
Citation of Merit – Society of Illustrators, 1969
Drawing the Human Form, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977 (1st ed.); Prentice Hall/Simon and Schuster, 1994, (2nd ed.)
Paper Construction for Children, (co-author), Reinhold Publishing Company, 1966
Kennedy Without Tears, Tom Wicker, William Morrow, NY, 1964; Still Quiet on the Western Front, Gene Smith, William Morrow, NY, 1965; On Firm Ice, Carter Wilson, (1st ed.)Education Development Center, Cambridge, MA, 1967, (2nd ed.) Thomas Crowell, NY, 1969; A Journey to the Arctic, Knud Rasmussen, Education Development Center, Cambridge, MA, 1969; The Hotchkiss School, Lael Tucker and Maude Wertenbaker Basserman,1966; The Creative Eye, Kelly Fearing, et al., (2 vols.) W.S. Benson, Austin, TX, 1969
Newsweek, The Reporter, The New Leader, John Hopkins Magazine, Mid-East, Esquire, Harpers Magazine, Opera News, TV Guide, Al-Majal (a USIA publication), The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Holiday, Texas Monthly (Art Director 1972-73)
Publications – Selected Citations
Betsy Schein Goldman American Artist Magazine in1987, reprinted as "Drawing Highlights" in 1994: Guide to Drawing (4th & 5th Edition by Mendelowitz and Wakeham) and Exploring Drawing by Gerald Brommer; The Best of Colored Pencil 4, and 5; Who’s Who in American Art; The Annual of American Illustration, 1965, 1967, and 1970.
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