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|  Editor and Art Director of the Kansas City Times from 1917 to 1927 and then a studio and newspaper artist in California, Walter Bailey was born in Wallula, Kansas. He also became a noted muralist and landscape painter. Two of his murals are at the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, four murals are in the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, and another in East High School, Kansas City.
Bailey studied at the Kansas City Art Institute with Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Wilimovsky, and Randall Davey.
In the 1940s, he worked as a scenic and motion picture artist in Hollywood, and from 1950 to 1967 was Art Editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. In 1927 to 1929, he taught a Master Class in Taos, New Mexico, and in 1932-1934, he taught a Master Class in landscape painting at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk (editor), Who Was Who in American Art
Added note:
Walter A. Bailey died on April 9, 1989 in Los Angeles, California.
Information courtesy of the artist's daughter
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|  Born Wallula, Oct. 17, 1894, Walter Bailey was a painter, illustrator,
muralist, etcher, block printer, lithographer and teacher. He
studied at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1920 with Charles A.
Wilmovsky, Randall Davey, & Anthony Angarola. He worked on
the art staff of the Kansas City Star. | Source:
AWARDS:
Fellowship from the Tiffany Foundation, 1924.
COLLECTIONS:
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Kansas City Public Library; Springfield, MA Public Library
MEMBERSHIPS:
Kansas City Society of Artists.
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-1947 10, 11, 24, 26, 27; Reinbach, Edna, comp. “Kansas Art and Artists”, in Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. v. 17, 1928. p. 571-585., Edna, comp. “Kansas Art and Artists”, in Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. v. 17, 1928. p. 571-585.; Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936- v.1=1936-37 v.3= 1941-42 v.2=1938-39 v.4=1940-47. 1, 2, 3; Newlin, Gertrude Dix (Development of Art in Kansas. Typed Manuscript, 1951); Dawdy 2: Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Volume 2. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1981.; Art Digest (Feb. 1, 1929p. 11); Annual Exhibition of the Artists of Kansas City and Vicinity (Kansas City Art Institute, 1915-21) 1921; Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition (Kansas City: Kansas City Art Institute, 1920-1942 Mines, Cynthia. For the Sake of Art: The Story of an Art Movement in Kansas. s.l. Mines, 1979.) 1923-24, 1927 | | This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas. |
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Walter Bailey is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Taos Pre 1940
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