Mark Strand writes:

The beauty of his work, its dreamlike, almost theatrical rationality, lies far beyond the reach of accuracy and the simple demands of representation.  It is able to straddle multiple realities—the actual and the imagined, the familiar and the strange.

Bailey was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa.  He attended the University of Kansas, School of Fine Arts.  After serving in the United States Army during the Korean War, he studied under Josef Albers at Yale where he received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A degrees.  He has been exhibiting in New York since the late 1960’s. William Bailey’s work can be seen in a host of public and private collections, most notably the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.  Bailey is the subject of two monographs, one by Mark Strand and the other by John Hollander and Guiliano Briganti. He lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut and Umbria, Italy.

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