BILL SAWYER (TENNESSEE, 1936-2020) HWY 70, LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
Bill Sawyer (Tennessee, 1936-2020). Title: “ Hwy 70, Late Sunday Afternoon.” Tempera on masonite, 16”x 20”. Frame 20” x 24”.
Bill Sawyer was a self-taught artist from Nashville, Tennessee/ He is said to have taken up painting while stationed in France in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His first exhibition was in Nashville in May of 1959 and he went on to have one-man shows at Daniel Orr's Gallery in San Diego, the Little Gallery in Memphis, TN, and the Parthenon in Nashville. Joseph Patterson, then the president of the American Association of Museums, arranged for a show of Sawyer's work at the Durlacher Brothers Gallery in New York in 1964.
