The Art of Bill Hendrix Volume One

Bill Hendrix was born in 1917 in Portland, Arkansas. He was born with the gift to draw, and spent his whole life seeking to further the field of art. He studied at the Cleveland Art Institute, The New York Art Students League, and the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. He received a Carnegie Grant to paint historical murals of St. Simons Island, Georgia in 1949 and never left the area. He began an Island School of Art which became the Island Art Center. He and his wife Mittie Hendrix devoted their entire lives to promoting the arts. A prolific artist, he left an enormous body of work spanning his whole life. His children are archiving and imaging these pieces, and this is only a random sample of his work. He was wholly an artist, proficient in not only drawing, painting, charcoal, pastel, and ink to name a few, but also in sculpture. He was devoted to experimentation and the journey, the journey to find new roads in a life-long quest to advance art. He died in an accident in 1996.

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