Upon
the occasion of Bill Walmsley’s 76th birthday, the Museum
of Fine Arts is most pleased to recognize the support of the
Florida Arts Council and the Richard Florsheim Art Fund for
our exhibition of his works entitled The Abridged Walmsley:
Selections from the Career of a Master Printmaker, October 8-November
21, 1999. Also to travel to the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala,
FL from July 15-October 15, 2000. We are happy to join with
generations of his students as well as his collectors
in offering this tribute to one of the most beloved of our faculty.
Those of us who have known Bill Walmsley—Professor Walmsley—for
a long time have become accustomed to his easy affability and
his enthusiasm for collecting art. What we don’t always
know is his history, the determination he mustered to
set
his own course, to study from the best there ever was and to
absorb centuries of art history as well as the excitement of
contemporary art movements. Bill's crusades took him from the
strictures of small town life in Alabama to the great art capitals
of the world, and he sacrificed, as any pilgrim would, to seek
a holy grail.
Ding
Dong Daddy - The Real Thing
fluorescent lithograph, 16 in. x 20
in.
|
Flea
Circus
lithograph, 11 1/4 in. x 18 1/2 in.
|
Ding
Dong Daddy - New Improved
fluorescent lithograph, 15 in. x 17 1/2
in. |
Ding
Dong Daddy Oh My Goodness
fluorescent lithograph, 27 in. x 38
in.
|
Ding
Dong Daddy ASU The Backward Country
fluorescent lithograph, 18 in. x 24
1/2 in.
|
Catalog
Essays:
Reflections on the
Work of William Walmsley
John Sommers, 1981
Ding Dong Daddy at
Twenty-Five
James J. Murphy, 1986
Ding Dong Daddy and
the Mainstream: The Lithographs of William Walmsley
Bradford R. Collins, 1989 / 1999
Everything
Is Art Unless Proven Otherwise
Allys Palladino-Craig, 1999
