William G. Anthony was born in 1934 in Monmouth, New Jersey and educated at    Yale, where he received his BA in 1958. He attended the Art Students League in New    York from 1958 - 1961, and the San Francisco Art institute from 1959 - 1960.

                    Jasper Johns selected William Anthony for inclusion in an exhibition at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, 1982.




Selected Recent One-Man Exhibitions:
1991     Paterson Museum, Paterson NJ
1991     Berland/Hall Gallery, NY
1992     Stuart Katz Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1993     Stuart Katz Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1995     Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam
1998     Robert Berman gallery, Santa Monica

"Anthony (is) something of a cult figure." -- N.Y. Times, Nov. 5, 1995

Books by the Artist:

"A NEW APPROACH TO FIGURE DRAWING," Crown Publishers, NY, 1965; and Odhams, London, 1968.


"BIBLE STORIES," The Jargon Society, Winston-Salem, NC, 1978.


"I can't wait for the New Testament. This is the first Bible I could understand." -- Andy Warhol



"BILL ANTHONY'S GREATEST HITS," foreword by Robert Rosenblum, The Jargon Society, Winston-Salem, NC, 1988


"Rave review." -- Roy Lichtenstein
"Hilarious...an anxious Cezannian formality lurking behind his funky facture..." -- ARTS, October 1988



Drawings have been commissioined for ARTFORUM, THE PARIS REVIEW, ANDY WARHOL'S INTERVIEW, S.M.S., THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER, and PARNASSUS.


Press Comments:

"Perverse, charming drawings." -- Gregory Battcock, ARTS AND ARTISTS.
"Delightfully satiric... an enfant-terrible." -- Laurie Anderson, ART NEWS.
"Among the milestones of funk ...uprorious..." -- Joseph Masheck, ARTFORUM.



Collections:

Art Institute of Chicago
Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Brooklyn Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Cleveland Museum of Art
Corcoran Museum of Art
Detroit Institute of Art
Guggenheim Museum, NY
Ludwig Museum, Cologne
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Newark Museum
Seattle Museum
Upplands Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Utah Museum of fine Art, Salt Lake City
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Worcester Art Museum
Yale University Art Museum


Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Anderson, Roswell, NM
Mr. Anthony Haden-Guest, NY
Mr. Frank Gettings, Washington, DC
Mr. A.G. Rosen, Wayne, NJ
Prof. and Mrs. Robert Rosenblum, NY
Prof. Leo Steinberg, NY
Mr. Jonathan Williams, Highlands, NC


CONTACT

WILLIAM G. ANTHONY
463 West Street #903
New York NY 10014
(212-255-0379)

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