VII WILLIAM MELTON HALSEY (1915 - 1999, AMERICAN) Sand Painting VII - El Kalaa.
Oil and sand on masonite, 1982. Signed, Halsey, lower right. Signed, Wm. Halsey, dated, Nov., 1982, and inscribed as titled on verso. 685x610 mm; 27x24 inches.
Provenance: Jacquelyn A. Mattfeld, acquired directly from the artist; Thence by descent to the current owner.
William Halsey was a gifted artist and devoted art instructor. In his youth he studied art with Elizabeth O'Neill Verner in his home town of Charleston South Carolina. After attending the University of South Carolina he furthered his art studies at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston where he was strongly influenced by the teachings and modernist style of Karl Zerbe. He continued to produce modernist works throughout his life, and devoted much of his time as an instructor of others. Halsey lived the entirety of his adult life painting and teaching along side his artist wife, Corrie McCallum. William Halsey taught at The Gibbes Art Gallery school, and was founder of the Studio Arts Department at The College of Charleston where the exhibition gallery is named in his honor.
