An Interview with Artist Thornton Willis
Julie Karabenick
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September 2003
Thornton Willis was born in Pensacola, Florida in 1936. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1967. Willis served in the Marine Corps from 1954-57. He received a BA from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg in 1962 and an MFA from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1966. Willis has received numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Painting Fellowship in 1979, a National Endowment for the Arts Painting Fellowship in 1980, an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Fellowship in 1991 and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Painting Fellowship in 2001. Willis’ work is widely collected and appears in over 40 public collections across the US and abroad, including: in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Museum of Broadcasting; elsewhere in New York, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca; in Washington, D.C., the Phillips Collection and the National Gallery; in Connecticut, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield; in Colorado, the Denver Museum of Fine Arts; in Pennsylvania, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; in Louisiana, the New Orleans Museum of Art; in Georgia, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; in Oklahoma, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art; in Oregon, the Portland Art Museum; in South Carolina, the Columbia Museum of Art; in Virginia, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Art Museum; and outside the US: in Switzerland, the Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-fonds; in Sweden, the Malmö Konsthall, Malmö; and in Australia, the Power Institute of Fine Arts, Sydney. Willis is represented by the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York City, New York.
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An Interview with Artist Thornton Willis
Julie Karabenick
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September 2003