biografia di William Melton HALSEY (1915-1999)

Birth place: Charleston, SC

Addresses: Charleston, SC

Profession: Abstract painter, educator

Studied: Univ. South Carolina; BMFA School, Paige traveling fellowship, 1939-41, with Alexandre Iacovleff & Karl Zerbe; Acad. San Carlo, Mexico City.

Exhibited: Gibbes Art Gal., Charleston, 1936-38; AIC, 1939, 1941-43; Berkshire Mus., 1939 (solo); Norfolk Mus. Arts & Sciences, 1940 (solo); Oshkosh Pub. Mus., 1940 (solo); SSAL, 1942 (prize); PAFA, 1943; Chicago AC, 1943; Telfair Acad., 1943; Mint Mus. Art, 1944-46 (prizes); Univ. Georgia, 1944 (solo); Agnes Scott College, 1944 (solo); Pasadena AI, 1946; Miss. AA, 1946; Savannah AA; WMAA, 1953-54; Central South Carolina Exhib., Tennessee Art League, Parthenon, Nashville, 1967; South Carolina State Invitational, Columbia Mus. Art, 1969; Contemporary Artists SC, Columbia Mus., Florence Mus., Greenville Mus. & Gibbes Art Gallery, 1970; Springs Mills Traveling Exhibs., NYC, 1971-72; four SC mus., 1972-73 (retrospective). Awards: Hughes Foundation research grants, 1950-52; purchase award, Central SC Exhib., 1967.

Member: SSAL; BMFA Sch., 1939-41; College Art Assn. Am.; Am. Crafts Council; Guild SC Artists (pres., 1958).

Work: Telfair Acad.; BMA; SC Arts Commission State Collection, Columbia; Mint Mus. Art, Charlotte, NC; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston; Greenville Co. (SC) Mus. Art. Commissions: 3 frescoes, Berkshire Mus. Art, Pittsfield, MA, 1939; murals, Beth Elohim Synagogue, Charleston, 1950, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Temple, 1952 & Sears Roebuck Co., Charleston, 1954; also commissions from Container Corp. Am. & Ford Motor Co.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, casein, collage. Publications: co-auth., A Travel Sketch Book, 1971. Teaching: BMFA Sch., 1938-39, Telfair Acad., 1942-43, Gibbes Art Gal., Charleston, 1945-46; College of Charleston, 1965-70s; Newberry College, 1968-70.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Margaret Harold, Prize-Winning Oil Paintings (1962) & Prize-Winning Watercolors (1964, Allied Publ.); Jack Morris, Contemporary Artists of South Carolina (Greenville Co. Mus. Art, 1970)