William Kent

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, 1919

Education:
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, B.S., 1944; Yale University School of Music, 1944-47
Studied Music Theory and Composition with Paul Hindemith

Positions:
Curator, John Slade Ely House Art Center, New Haven, CT, 1960-65
Founder & Secretary of Professional Artist of Connecticut, 1962-65

Permanent Collections (A Selection):
John and Kimiko Powers
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Smithsonian Institution
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester University
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Brooklyn Museum
Princeton University Art Museum
New Britain Museum of American Art
Richard Brown Baker
Robert M. Bohlen
Detroit Institute of Fine Arts
Yale Art Gallery

Exhibitions:
Castellane Gallery, NY. One man Shows: 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
Wadsworth Atheneum, 1963
Pennsylvania Academy, 1964
DeCordova Museum, 1964/66
Brooklyn Museum, 15th Annual Print Exhibition, 1964
Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Annual, 1966
New Britain Museum of American Art, 1975
Monique Knowlton Gallery, Kent, CT 1994
The Hollycroft Foundation, Ivoryton, CT 1996
Colgate University, The Picker Art Gallery, 1997
Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, 2000-2001
The Sculpture Mile, Madison, CT, 20001-2003
Chase/Freedman Gallery, West Hartford, CT, 2003
University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, 2004
Mobile Alabama Museum, 2005
Evergreen Woods. Branford, CT, 2005
The Sculpture Mile at Middletown, CT. 2005-06
Museum of Arts & Design, NYC, 2006