William M Halsey

American abstract expressionist artist who was represented by the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York City (1948–1953). His mural studies for the Baltimore Hebrew Congregational Temple were included in Synagogue Art Today at the Jewish Museum, New York City (1952). His work was included in the annual International Exhibition of Watercolors, the Art Institute of Chicago (1939, 1941–1943). He had work in the Whitney Museums Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings (1953). A mid-career retrospective was held at the Greenville County Museum of Art in 1972 and then traveled to the Gibbes Museum of Art (formerly the Gibbes Art Gallery), Charleston, South Carolina, and the Florence Museum, Florence, South Carolina. In 1953 Halsey, his wife Corrie McCallum, and local sculptor Willard Hirsch joined together to form the independent Charleston Art School which they operated from 1953-1964. The school offered classes to all ages in both 2D and 3D processes. Halsey taught at the College of Charleston from 1965 to 1984. In 1984 upon his retirement from teaching at the college, the gallery at the Simons Fine Arts Center (now the Halsey Institute) was named in his honour. William M. Halsey died on 14 February 1999 at age 83 at Roper Hospital in Charleston. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less