Bannard, Walter Darby, 1934-2016
Variant namesWalter 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 | Oral history interview with Frank Stella | Archives of American Art |
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| associatedWith | Stella, Frank. | person |
| associatedWith | Taylor, Robert, 1925- | person |
| associatedWith | The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Walter Darby Bannard, | person |
| associatedWith | Whitney Museum of American Art. | corporateBody |
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Birth 1934-09-23
Death 2016-10-02
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