William Melton Halsey, Cubist Gouache

Lot 104

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Nov 12, 2022

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Lot Description

William Melton Halsey, (1915-1999)
Cubist composition
Gouache on board
14.5 x 17.5 in / 36,8 x 44,5 cm
Framed: 21.5 x 23.5 in / 54,6 x 59,7 cm

Provenance:
Private Collection, Michigan
Private Collection, Texas

Born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, William Melton Halsey enjoyed a career that spanned and evolved over sixty years. Thought of as one of the South’s foremost 20th century modernists and described as a pioneer of Abstract painting, Halsey is well known for his vibrant paintings, collages, and sculptures. Using bold calligraphic brushstrokes, applied texture, and a complex layering of color, his work in intended to achieve a final, elegant simplicity.

Halsey built his reputation regionally and nationally and was represented in New York by the Bertha Schaefer Gallery. His exhibits there, between 1948 and 1953, garnered critical attention in Art News and the New York Times. In 1953, Halsey co-founded the Charleston Art School with his wife and Willard Hirsch and later taught at the College of Charleston from 1965 until his retirement in 1984. During his lifetime, Halsey's works were included in exhibitions at such noted institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and National Academy of Design. He is represented in the permanent collections of numerous museums including High Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibbes Museum of Art, and Greenville County Museum of Art.

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