Bannard, Walter Darby, 1934-2016

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Walter Darby Bannard was an American abstract painter.

Bannard was born in New Haven, Connecticut and attended Phillips Exeter Academy (class of 1952)[1] and Princeton University, where he struck up a friendship and working relationship with Frank Stella, who was also interested in minimalist abstraction. He was associated with Modernism, Lyrical Abstraction, Minimalism, Formalism (art), Post-painterly Abstraction and Color Field painting.

Bannard was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968.

Bannard had close to a hundred solo exhibitions, was included in several hundred group shows, and is represented in the collections of all the major New York museums and many others around the world. He was a prolific writer on art with over a hundred published essays and reviews; Bannard has taught, lectured and participated in panel discussions, and has been a Co-chair of the International Exhibitions Committee of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bannard was Professor and Head of Painting of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami. Bannard died in Miami, Florida on October 2, 2016 at the age of 82.

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referencedIn Bannard, Walter Darby, 1934- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
creatorOf Bannard, Walter Darby. [Walter Darby Bannard] : artist file John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library, Ringling Museum Library
creatorOf Barbara Rose papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Clement Greenberg papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Clement Greenberg papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Bannard, Walter Darby, 1934-. Walter Darby Bannard : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York]. Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection
creatorOf Robert Taylor papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Bannard, Walter Darby, 1934-. Walter Darby Bannard artist file. Whitney Museum of American Art, Library
referencedIn Bannard, Walter D. : Biographical file. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
referencedIn Karen S. Chambers Collection on Contemporary Glass Artists Corning Museum of Glass. Rakow Research Library
creatorOf Bannard, Walter Darby, 1934-. Artist file. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
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referencedIn Oral history interview with Frank Stella Archives of American Art
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Birth 1934-09-23

Death 2016-10-02

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