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      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS, (American, b. 1942), HKL Portfolio, 1970, screenprint in colors, each plate: 16 x 11 1/2 in., each sheet: 19 3/4 x 13 1/8 in.
        Nov. 02, 2024

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS, (American, b. 1942), HKL Portfolio, 1970, screenprint in colors, each plate: 16 x 11 1/2 in., each sheet: 19 3/4 x 13 1/8 in.

        Est: $2,000 - $4,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio 1970, screenprint in colors each signed W.T. Williams and numbered printers proof lower right

        Grogan & Company
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Exodus.
        Oct. 03, 2024

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Exodus.

        Est: $2,500 - $3,500

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Exodus. Color screenprint on wove paper, circa 1970. 406x292 mm; 16x11½ inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 116/160 in pencil, lower margin.

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • William T. Williams Signed Screenprint HKL Portfolio
        Apr. 27, 2024

        William T. Williams Signed Screenprint HKL Portfolio

        Est: $600 - $900

        Williams, William T. (American, b.1942), HKL 2 - from the HKL Portfolio, 1970, screenprint on BFK Rives, signed and numbered 76/144 in pencil to lower right, image 16 x 11.5 inches, matted and framed 24.5 x 19.5 inches. Printed by Charles Cardinale, Fine Creations, Inc. The full portfolio of 4 prints is found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the National Gallery in Washington, DC. Williams is one of the most important African-American artists of the second half of the 20th century.

        Concept Art Gallery
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (b. 1942) Old Bethel acrylic and graphite on paper 55 1
        May. 18, 2023

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (b. 1942) Old Bethel acrylic and graphite on paper 55 1

        Est: $40,000 - $60,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (b. 1942) Old Bethel acrylic and graphite on paper 55 1/2 x 41 in. (141 x 104 cm.)

        Christie's
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.
        Apr. 06, 2023

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.

        Est: $6,000 - $9,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio. Set of four color screenprints on Rives BFK paper, 1970. Each 413x295 mm; 16 1/4x11 5/8 inches, full margins. Each signed and numbered 31/144 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Charles Cardinale, Fine Creations, Inc., New York. Published by HKL, Ltd., New York. Other sets are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery, Washington, DC. The publisher HKL, Ltd. was created by Portia Harcus, Barbara Krakow and Vera List.

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (B. 1942) What We Need acrylic on canvas 28 x 20 in. (
        Dec. 14, 2022

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (B. 1942) What We Need acrylic on canvas 28 x 20 in. (

        Est: $10,000 - $15,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (B. 1942) What We Need acrylic on canvas 28 x 20 in. (71.1 x 50.8 cm.)

        Christie's
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (b. 1942) Stone by Stone/First Wife acrylic on two join
        Jul. 20, 2022

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (b. 1942) Stone by Stone/First Wife acrylic on two join

        Est: $12,000 - $18,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (b. 1942) Stone by Stone/First Wife acrylic on two joined panels 44 1/4 x 14 in. (112.4 x 35.6 cm.)

        Christie's
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (B. 1942) - Untitled
        Jul. 19, 2022

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (B. 1942) - Untitled

        Est: $6,000 - $8,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (B. 1942) Untitled Each Image: 16 x 11 1⁄8 in. (406 x 283 mm.) Each Sheet: 23 3⁄8 x 17 1⁄2 in. (594 x 445 mm.) (4)

        Christie's
      • William T. Williams, b. 1942, untitled
        Mar. 12, 2022

        William T. Williams, b. 1942, untitled

        Est: $2,000 - $3,000

        William T. Williams b. 1942 untitled n.d. color lithograph 16 x 11-1/2 inches (full margins) signed, titled and numbered 116/160 blind stamp

        Black Art Auction
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Caravan.
        Oct. 07, 2021

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Caravan.

        Est: $2,000 - $3,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Caravan. Color lithograph on cream wove paper, 1991. 984x666 mm; 38 3/4x26 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 10/19 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by the Oberon Press Inc., New York. Another impression is in the permanent collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • William T. Williams (b. 1942) Congo Square acrylic on panel 14 7/8 x 15 ½ i
        Jul. 21, 2021

        William T. Williams (b. 1942) Congo Square acrylic on panel 14 7/8 x 15 ½ i

        Est: $8,000 - $12,000

        William T. Williams (b. 1942) Congo Square acrylic on panel 14 7/8 x 15 ½ in. (37.8 x 39.4 cm.)

        Christie's
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.
        Apr. 22, 2021

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.

        Est: $7,000 - $10,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio. Set of four color screenprints on Rives BFK paper, 1970. Each 413x295 mm; 16 1/4x11 5/8 inches, full margins. Each signed and numbered 83/144 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Charles Cardinale, Fine Creations, Inc., New York. Published by HKL, Ltd., New York. With the justification page. Other portfolios are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery, Washington, DC. The publisher HKL, Ltd. was created by Portia Harcus, Barbara Krakow and Vera List.

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • William T. Williams, b. 1942, Karen’s Tale
        Feb. 06, 2021

        William T. Williams, b. 1942, Karen’s Tale

        Est: $1,000 - $2,000

        William T. Williams b. 1942 Karen’s Tale 2008 serigraph 24 x 18 inches signed, dated, titled, and numbered Curlee Raven Holton, master printer

        Black Art Auction
      • William T. Williams (b. 1942) - Congo Square
        Dec. 15, 2020

        William T. Williams (b. 1942) - Congo Square

        Est: $12,000 - $15,000

        William T. Williams (b. 1942) Congo Square signed, titled and dated ‘William T. Williams 99 “Congo Square”’ (on the reverse) acrylic on plywood 14 7/8 x 15 1/2 in. (37.8 x 39.4 cm.) Painted in 1999.

        Christie's
      • William T. Williams, b. 1942, Bee's Quest, Serigraph, 24 x 18 inches
        Nov. 14, 2020

        William T. Williams, b. 1942, Bee's Quest, Serigraph, 24 x 18 inches

        Est: $2,000 - $3,000

        William T. Williams b. 1942 Bee's Quest Serigraph 2008 Signed, titled, dated and numbered 17/25. This is number 17 from an edition of 25. 24 x 18 inches (image), 30 x 22 inches (sheet). Williams was born in Cross Creek, North Carolina. He received his BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1966, and his MFA from Yale in 1968. With only one year out of graduate school, the Museum of Modern Art acquired one of his works. Williams and Mel Edwards began the artist-in-residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 1975, he was invited by Bob Blackburn to work with the Printmaking Workshop in New York. For the next 22 years, the two collaborated to produce many images. In 2005, Williams was invited to create a print at the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, and in 2006, he served as an artist-in-residence at Lafayette College and the Experimental Printmaking Institute, working with master printmaker, Curlee Raven Holton (this image was executed there). 24 x 18 inches

        Black Art Auction
      • William T. Williams, b. 1942, Karen''s Tale, Serigraph, 24 x 18 inches
        May. 16, 2020

        William T. Williams, b. 1942, Karen''s Tale, Serigraph, 24 x 18 inches

        Est: $1,500 - $2,000

        William T. Williams b. 1942 Karen's Tale Serigraph 2008 signed, titled, dated and numbered 28/50 24 x 18 inches

        Black Art Auction
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.
        Oct. 04, 2018

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.

        Est: $6,000 - $9,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio. Set of four color screenprints on Rives BFK paper, 1970. Each 413x295 mm; 16 1/4x11 5/8 inches, full margins. Each signed and numbered 24/144 in pencil, lower margin. With the justification page.

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.
        Oct. 05, 2017

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.

        Est: $6,000 - $9,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio. Set of four color screenprints on Rives BFK paper, 1970. Each 413x295 mm; 16 1/4x11 5/8 inches, full margins. Each signed and numbered 33/144 in pencil, lower margin. With the justification page.

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Chuckerbootstar Last.
        Apr. 07, 2016

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Chuckerbootstar Last.

        Est: $50,000 - $75,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Chuckerbootstar Last. Acrylic on cotton canvas, 1972-73. 2032x1524 mm; 84x60 inches. Signed, titled and dated in red ink, verso. Provenance: the Best Products corporate art collection; private collection, New Jersey. Chuckerbootstar Last represents the evolution of the artist's important geometric abstraction in the early 1970s. William T. Williams has harmonized a geometric composition in deep secondary colors--purples, greens and browns--with a carefully textured surface. The paintings from this period mark a transition from the high key colors found in the body of work shown in his Reese-Palley solo exhibition two years earlier. Holland Cotter in The New York Times described Williams's new abstraction, in a similar work: "Nu Nile (1973), finds the artist subtly altering a Minimalist model. The grid format has been broken up into a patchwork of odd geometric shapes tilted on a diagonal. The forms are separated by impasto ridges, making the painting look welded together. A pearlescent medium mixed into the monochromatic gray acrylic lends the surface a metallic sheen. As if to jazz up a simulated high-tech formalism, Mr. Williams marks the surface with a pattern of feathered brush strokes that have a mechanical regularity but catch the light like the ripples in watered silk." Other works from this period include Skowhegan I, 1973, in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum. They also precede the warmer, earthier palette inspired by "the dusty unpaved roads of North Carolina," according to David Driskell, found in paintings like Indian Summer, 1973.

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • William Thomas Williams (American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered "...99/
        Jan. 22, 2016

        William Thomas Williams (American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered "...99/

        Est: $2,500 - $3,500

        William Thomas Williams (American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered "...99/144" in pencil l.r. Color screenprints on heavy wove paper, image sizes 16 1/8 x 11 5/8 in. (40.8 x 29.4 cm), framed. Condition: Not examined out of frames.

        Skinner
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.
        Dec. 15, 2015

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.

        Est: $10,000 - $15,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio. Set of four color screenprints on Rives BFK paper, 1970. Each 413x295 mm; 16 1/4x11 5/8 inches, full margins. Each signed and numbered 33/144 in pencil, lower margin. With the justification page.

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • William Thomas Williams (American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered "...22/
        May. 29, 2015

        William Thomas Williams (American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered "...22/

        Est: $3,000 - $5,000

        William Thomas Williams (American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered "...22/144" in pencil l.r. Color screenprints on heavy wove paper, image sizes 16 1/8 x 11 5/8 in. (40.8 x 29.4 cm), unmatted, unframed. Condition: Good. N.B. Williams was encouraged to become an artist by Jacob Lawrence. In 1986 Williams became the first African American artist to be included in H.W. Janson's History of Art.

        Skinner
      • William Earle Williams: Boyd's Landing, South Carolina, 1999, archival pigment print, signed verso
        Oct. 11, 2014

        William Earle Williams: Boyd's Landing, South Carolina, 1999, archival pigment print, signed verso

        Est: $1,300 - $2,600

        Boyd's Landing, South Carolina, 1999, archival pigment print, signed verso, Image size: 12"x12",

        The Photo Review
      • William Thomas Williams (American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered "...52/
        Sep. 19, 2014

        William Thomas Williams (American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered "...52/

        Est: $1,500 - $2,000

        William Thomas Williams (American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered "...52/144" in pencil l.r. Color screenprints on heavy wove paper, image sizes 16 1/8 x 11 5/8 in. (40.8 x 29.4 cm), unmatted, unframed. Condition: Good.

        Skinner
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Truckin.
        Jun. 10, 2014

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Truckin.

        Est: $75,000 - $100,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Truckin. Acrylic on cotton canvas, 1969. 2032x1524 mm; 84x60 inches. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed in pencil, verso on the stretcher bars. Provenance: private California collection; gifted to California State University, Fullerton, CA (1998). Truckin is a significant early painting, and the earliest painting by this important African-American artist to date to come to auction. It is an excellent example of William T. Williams' first year of painting after completing his MFA from Yale University, with the imagery that quickly gained him an international recognition as an abstract painter in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Williams' talents had been recognized from an early age. He was accepted in the summer before his senior year at Pratt Institute to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before receiving his B.A. in 1966. After earning his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1968, he participated in The Black Artist in America: A Symposium, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Williams's abstract painting achieved early institutional recognition when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased his 1969 painting Elbert Jackson L.A.M.F., Part II. His paintings were also included in such important exhibitions as the Studio Museum in Harlem's Inaugural Show, the Whitney Biennial and New Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1970, both the Jewish Museum, New York, and the Menil Collection, Houston, commissioned paintings. Sweets Crane, 1969, in the collection of New York State at the Empire State Plaza shares the mixture of warm, earthy tones with high key colors found in the palette of Truckin. Another 1969 painting Trane, in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem, was recently exhibited in the 2012 group exhibition Blues for Smoke exhibition at MOCA, Los Angeles. Many of his 1969 paintings share titles that reveal Williams' interest in jazz; "truckin" was an expression used by musicians, and the title of a Fats Waller song. Jones pp. 16-17; Powell/Reynolds pp. 235-6.

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • William Thomas Williams (African American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered
        Feb. 07, 2014

        William Thomas Williams (African American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered

        Est: $3,000 - $5,000

        William Thomas Williams (African American, b. 1942) HKL Portfolio/A Suite of Four Works, 1970, edition of 144. Each signed and numbered "...55/144" in pencil l.r., identified on the colophon. Color screenprints on heavy wove paper, image sizes 16 1/8 x 11 5/8 in. (40.8 x 29.4 cm), unmatted, unframed. Condition: Margins 3 inches or more. N.B. Williams was encouraged to become an artist by Jacob Lawrence. In 1986 he became the first African American artist included in H.W. Janson's History of Art.

        Skinner
      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Chuckerbootstar Last.
        Oct. 03, 2013

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Chuckerbootstar Last.

        Est: $75,000 - $100,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Chuckerbootstar Last. Acrylic on cotton canvas, 1972-73. 2032x1524 mm; 84x60 inches. Signed, titled and dated in red ink, verso. Provenance: private collection. Chuckerbootstar Last represents the evolution of the artist's important geometric abstraction in the early 1970s. William T. Williams has harmonized a geometric composition in deep secondary colors--purples, greens and browns--with a carefully textured surface. The paintings from this period mark a transition from the high key colors found in the body of work shown in his Reese-Palley solo exhibition two years earlier. Holland Cotter in The New York Times described Williams's new abstraction, as found in a similar work: "Nu Nile (1973), finds the artist subtly altering a Minimalist model. The grid format has been broken up into a patchwork of odd geometric shapes tilted on a diagonal. The forms are separated by impasto ridges, making the painting look welded together. A pearlescent medium mixed into the monochromatic gray acrylic lends the surface a metallic sheen. As if to jazz up a simulated high-tech formalism, Mr. Williams marks the surface with a pattern of feathered brush strokes that have a mechanical regularity but catch the light like the ripples in watered silk." Other works from this period include Skowhegan I, 1973, in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum. They also precede the warmer, earthier palette inspired by "the dusty unpaved roads of North Carolina," according to David Driskell, found in paintings like Indian Summer, 1973. This is the first significant work by the artist made after 1971 to come to auction.

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      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.
        Oct. 03, 2013

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio.

        Est: $10,000 - $15,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) HKL Portfolio. Group of four color screenprints on Rives BFK paper, 1970. 413x295 mm; 16 1/4x11 5/8 inches, full margins. Each signed and numbered 33/144 in pencil, lower margin. With the justification page. This is the first time the complete HKL portfolio appears at auction.

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      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Up Balls.
        Feb. 14, 2013

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Up Balls.

        Est: $75,000 - $100,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Up Balls. Acrylic on cotton canvas, 1971. 2032x1524 mm; 84x60 inches. Titled and dated in ink, on the stretcher bar, verso. Provenance: the artist; Reese-Palley Gallery, New York (1971), with the gallery label on the frame back; the AT&T corporate art collection, New York (1971); de-accessioned and acquired at auction, private collection (2005). Up Balls is only the second painting by this important African-American artist to come to auction, and is a significant work from his first solo exhibition in New York. This painting is an excellent, early example of William T. Williams's unique abstract vision--an elegant, layered Minimalist abstraction, infused with the geometries of jazz and non-Western cultures. Williams's talents had been recognized from an early age. He was accepted in the summer before his senior year at Pratt Institute to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before receiving his B.A. in 1966. After earning his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1968, he participated in The Black Artist in America: A Symposium, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Williams's abstract painting achieved early institutional recognition when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased his 1969 painting Elbert Jackson L.A.M.F, Part II. His paintings were also included in such important exhibitions as the Studio Museum in Harlem's Inaugural Show, the Whitney Biennial and New Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1970, both the Jewish Museum, New York, and the Menil Collection, Houston, commissioned paintings. The high key colors, diamonds and concentric curves of Up Balls demonstrate the artist's dualism and his distinctive approach. Kellie Jones has noted how Williams was caught between "an interest in Color Field painting and interest in expressionism, and in trying to reconcile the two." The formalism of modernism and jazz often suggested a way to navigate the two tendencies. Williams's concept included the exhibition of these canvases, which were installed along the walls of the Reese-Palley Gallery side by side, while jazz music played. The sold-out exhibition was a pivotal success that year and for his career--the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, exhibited his work again, AT&T and General Mills purchased his art, and his work was featured in both Life and Time magazines. In addition to his long career as a painter, for almost 40 years, Williams has taught at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York as a Professor of Art. He has also received numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Jones pp. 16-17; Powell/Reynolds pp. 235-6.

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      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS Here and There.
        Nov. 15, 2012

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS Here and There.

        Est: $15,000 - $20,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS Here and There. Watercolor and gouache and pencil on paper, 1987. 1010x680 mm; 39 3/4x26 3/4 inches. Signed, dated and titled in pencil, lower margin.

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      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Eastern Star.
        Feb. 16, 2012

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Eastern Star.

        Est: $75,000 - $100,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Eastern Star. Acrylic on canvas, 1971. 2032x1524 mm; 84x60 inches. Titled and dated in ink, verso on the stretcher bars. Provenance: the artist; Reese-Palley Gallery; private New York collection. This work was bought from the artist's first solo gallery exhibition in New York by the current owner. Eastern Star, a very large and exciting work, is the first painting by this important African-American artist to come to auction. This painting is an excellent example of William T. Williams's unique abstract vision--an elegant, layered Minimalist abstraction, infused with the geometries of jazz and non-Western cultures. Williams's talents had been recognized from an early age. He was accepted in the summer before his senior year at Pratt Institute to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before receiving his B.A. in 1966. After earning his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1968, he participated in The Black Artist in America: A Symposium, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Williams's abstract painting achieved early institutional recognition when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased his 1969 painting Elbert Jackson L.A.M.F, Part II. His paintings were also included in such important exhibitions as the Studio Museum in Harlem's Inaugural Show, the Whitney Biennial and New Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1970, both the Jewish Museum, New York, and the Menil Collection, Houston, commissioned paintings. The high key colors, diamonds and concentric curves of Eastern Star demonstrate the artist's dualism and his distinctive approach. Kellie Jones has noted how Williams was caught between "an interest in Color Field painting and interest in expressionism, and in trying to reconcile the two." The formalism of modernism and jazz often suggested a way to navigate the two tendencies. Williams's concept included the exhibition of these canvases, which were installed along the walls of the Reese-Palley Gallery side by side, while jazz music played. The sold-out exhibition was a pivotal success that year and for his career--the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, exhibited his work again, AT&T and General Mills purchased his art, and his work was featured in both Life and Time magazines. In addition to his long career as a painter, for almost 40 years, Williams has taught at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York as a Professor of Art. He has also received numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Jones pp. 16-17; Powell/Reynolds pp. 235-6.

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      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 2).
        Oct. 06, 2011

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 2).

        Est: $3,000 - $5,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 2). Color screenprint, 1970. 406x292 mm; 16x11 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 118/144 in pencil, lower right. From the HKL portfolio. A very good impression of this scarce print.

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      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 1).
        Oct. 06, 2011

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 1).

        Est: $3,000 - $5,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 1). Color screenprint, 1970. 406x292 mm; 16x11 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 118/144 in pencil, lower right. From the HKL portfolio. A very good impression of this scarce print.

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      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 2).
        Jun. 24, 2010

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 2).

        Est: $4,000 - $6,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 2). Color screenprint, 1970. 406x292 mm; 16x11 1/2 inches, full margins. A hors commerce impression, aside from the edition of 144. Signed, inscribed "h/c" and numbered II/IX in pencil, lower right. From the HKL portfolio. A very good impression of this scarce print. We have found only one previous auction record for a work sold by this contemporary artist at auction; his lithograph Red Fern sold at Swann Galleries on February 19, 2008.

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      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 1).
        Jun. 24, 2010

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 1).

        Est: $4,000 - $6,000

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Untitled (HKL 1). Color screenprint, 1970. 406x292 mm; 16x11 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 102/144 in pencil, lower right. From the HKL portfolio. A very good impression of this scarce print. The complete portfolio HKL was also included in the artist's 2010 retrsopective William T. Williams: Variations on Theme at the David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland.

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      • WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Redfern I.
        Feb. 19, 2008

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Redfern I.

        Est: $1,500 - $2,500

        WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS (1942 - ) Redfern I. Lithograph, 1975. 443x605 mm 17 1/2x23 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 25/35 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Bob Blackburn at his Printmaking Workshop, New York. A very good, dark impression.

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      • WILLIAM THOMAS WILLIAMS (American, 1942) "UNTITLED 1970"
        Aug. 25, 2004

        WILLIAM THOMAS WILLIAMS (American, 1942) "UNTITLED 1970"

        Est: $150 - $250

        Serigraph on paper, limited edition 1/144. Initialed in pencil. Colorful kite shapes with curves. Housed in a lucite frame. Lee Gallery with name, title etc.

        James D. Julia
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