Walter henry williams biography

Walter Henry Williams was.

After graduating Williams won a Whitney fellowship to study in Mexico. According to the "History of African-American Artists" by Bearden and Henderson, after Williams' four years of living in racially liberal Mexico he "felt the freedom from racial prejudice was essential for his further development. Williams moved to Copenhagen, Denmark and became a citizen in He returned briefly to the United States, where he completed a body of work informed by the experiences of being an African American living in the South.

It was while he was in Copenhagen, however, that he created a series of colorful woodcuts of black children playing in fields of flowers. Walter Williams died in Copenhagen in June of Half these works were sold in the United States and the other half in Europe, 10 proofs were reserved for the artist. This gave Williams an international following that allowed him to continue to work as a printmaker.

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