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William H. Bailey
Seated Nude
1972

Name: Seated Nude
Brand: William H. Bailey
Rating: 5 (106 reviews)

Price:$3,600

$4,500List Price

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Seated Nude Graphite on Vertibakle Papier d'Arches, 1972 Signed and dated in pencil (see photo) Provenance: Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York Marcuse "Cussie" Pfeifer (1936-2020) In the early 1970, Cussie worked as a director at Robert Schoelkopf and acquired this drawing from one Bailey's one man show help at Schoelkopf. MARCUSE PFEIFER (1936–2020) Marcuse “Cusie” Pfeifer, who championed contemporary photography at the eponymous New York gallery she founded in 1976—and in doing so, helped launch the careers of Peter Hujar and Sally Mann—has died at age eighty-four. She was one of the first gallerists in the city to exclusively show photographs at a time when many critics and collectors still denied the medium the status of art. She went on to become a founding member and president of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), which hosts the Photography Show, the prestigious art fair. She died in Kingston, New York, where she lived and, in 2005, cofounded the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, whose art program she directed for over a decade. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1936, Pfeifer became interested in art and social justice as an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she divided her time between the campus and Manhattan’s art galleries—avoiding photography, at first. “I never liked photography,” she later told an interviewer, speaking of her student years. “I never went to see the photography shows. It seemed mechanical and boring.” After stints working at the New School and the Museum of Modern Art, she met respected Madison Avenue dealer Robert Schoelkopf, who told her he was going to stop selling photographs due to a lack of interest from collectors. Pfeifer, having had a change of heart about the medium, acquired his photography space. Guided less by profit than by her emotional reaction to images, Pfeifer made it her business to show “young unknowns.” When considering artists to represent, she insisted on looking over their portfolios in person. Pfeifer met Hujar through Maggie Sherwood’s experimental art center, the Floating Foundation of Photographers, and immediately recognized his talent. For his first show with her, in 1977, she formed an exhibition from his series “Portraits in Life and Death.” Although these images are now renowned, they received a lukewarm reception two years prior, when he published them in a 1975 book introduced by Susan Sontag. The show garnered some of Hujar’s first reviews, and in 1978, Pfeifer included his work in “The Male Nude in Photography.” The survey, which also featured photographs by Sally Mann and Robert Mapplethorpe, among many others, was almost unanimously disparaged by critics but helped establish the gallery’s reputation. Throughout her gallery’s fourteen-year run, Pfeifer consistently challenged the male gaze in photography, showcasing female photographers like Carlotta Corpron, Nell Dorr, and Lois Connor. She also introduced New York’s art world to the German photographer Lilo Raymond and was the first to hang Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s portraits in a gallery setting. In 1987, she organized a show of Mann’s “Family Pictures,” a series of black-and-white photographs closely linked to the artist’s famous “Immediate Family” series, which led to conservative uproar during the culture wars of the late ’80s and ’90s. Last year, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, New York, staged an exhibition comprised of ninety donations from Pfeifer’s holdings, which included photographs by Berenice Abbott, Anna Atkins, and Gisèle Freund. “It’s not really a collection,” she said of the works she amassed throughout her career. “It’s my response that’s the common denominator. The picture itself has to move me.”" Courtesy ArtForum Marcuse "Cusie" Pfeifer (November 4, 1936 – July 17, 2020) was an American gallerist. Pfeifer was an important person in recognition of photography as a fine art, founding member and art exhibition director of the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center in Kingston, New York, and a supporter of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. She opened the Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery on Madison Avenue in 1976, and later moved to 568 Broadway. She helped people, including Sally Mann, Peter Hujar, and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders to launch their careers as contemporary photographers. In 1978, she curated a show of male nudes, with work by Robert Maplethorpe, Lynn Davis and Peter Hujar, prompting The New York Times reviewer to call for a return to "old-fashioned prudery". Pfeifer died on July 17, 2020, at age 83. Courtesy of Wikipedia William Bailey studied art at the University of Kansas, Yale University and Yale School of Art where he studied with Josef Albers receiving his MFA in 1957. Mr. Bailey’s first exhibition in New York was at Robert Schoelkopf Gallery in 1968, where he showed regularly until its closing in 1990. During the 90’s he exhibited at the Andre Emmerich Gallery and on its closing, exhibited at the Robert Miller Gallery. In 2004 Bailey moved to the Betty Cuningham Gallery where his most recent exhibition was held from April 30 - June 11, 2016. Mr. Bailey’s work has been exhibited extensively in both America and Europe. He is represented in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting in 1965. Mr. Bailey was elected to The National Academy of Design in 1983 and to The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986. Mr. Bailey taught at The Yale School of Art from 1958 to 1962 and from 1969 to 1995. He has also taught at The Cooper Union, University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University. He maintains studios in New Haven and in Umbertide, Italy. Courtesy Betty Cunningham Gallery Tribute to William Bailey THE NEW YORK TIMES William Bailey, whose pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative art in the 1980s, died on April 13 at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 89. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Alix Bailey. Beyond his painting, Mr. Bailey influenced generations of students in his many years as a teacher at the Yale School of Art. In some of his best-known work, Mr. Bailey arranged simple objects — the eggs, bowls, bottles and vases that he once called “my repertory company” — along a severe horizontal shelf, or on a plain table, swathing them in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.

Creator:
William H. Bailey (1930, American)
Creation Year:
1972
Dimensions:
Height: 14.88 in (37.8 cm)Width: 11.25 in (28.58 cm)
Medium:
Graphite
Movement Style:
American Realist
Period:
1970-1979
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Fairlawn, OH
Reference Number:
Seller: FA122321stDibs: LU14011746942

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