Willard Midgette (July 9, 1937–April 21, 1978) was an American painter and printmaker associated with the second generation of Contemporary American Realist painters.
Midgette was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Ernst Midgette and Mary Midgette. He was educated at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Harvard College (B.A., 1959), Boston University College of Fine Art, Pratt Institute (Pratt Graphic Art Center), and Indiana Universi...
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Willard Midgette (July 9, 1937–April 21, 1978) was an American painter and printmaker associated with the second generation of Contemporary American Realist painters.
Midgette was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Ernst Midgette and Mary Midgette. He was educated at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Harvard College (B.A., 1959), Boston University College of Fine Art, Pratt Institute (Pratt Graphic Art Center), and Indiana University (M.F.A., 1962). Midgette was an Associate Professor of Art at Reed College from 1963 to 1971. In the summer of 1969, he took a year's sabbatical and a year's leave to complete a mural commission and a fellowship in Roswell, New Mexico at The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation. From 1971 to his death he was artist-in-residence and chairman of the art department of St. Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York. The summers of 1976 and 1977 he taught at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where he had attended summer school while in...
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