William Whitaker
grew up in the special world of the working artist. He had access to the
finest art materials and was painting in watercolor and oil at the age
of six. His fondest early memories are of the sights sounds and smells
of the art studio.
The art world of his childhood and
youth was the brave new world of abstract expressionism and until he was
well out of college his natural inclination to draw accurately and his
love for traditional realism was a source of inner conflict.
Nevertheless he was fortunate, starting at age 17, to receive a thorough
grounding in academic figure drawing and painting from the portrait
painter Alvin Gittins at the University of Utah, and after exploring
other styles he followed his heart into traditional art.
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