David Wilson Budd Jr.

Lugar: St. Petersburg

Nascido: 1927

Morte: 1991

Biografia:

David Wilson Budd Jr. was born on March 31, 1927, in St. Petersburg, Florida. He graduated from St. Petersburg High School, then enrolled at the University of Florida to study architecture. He soon dropped out to study interior design at the Ringling School of Art and Design. He later shifted his focus to painting after watching a film about Jackson Pollock.He worked for the Christiani Brothers Circus, eventually marrying the equestrian ballerina Corcaita (Corky) Christiani.Budd and his wife moved to New York City in the 1950s. He became a member of the Abstract Expressionist movement. He moved to Paris in the 1960s, to work with the Galerie Stadler, and returned to the United States in 1968.He was friends with the writer William S. Burroughs. His first solo show was at the American University in Washington, D.C. in 1956. His next two were at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York in 1958 and 1960. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Peggy Guggenheim Award.Budd taught Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in NYC from 1973 to 1986.His paintings are held in a variety of permanent collections, including:The Blanton Museum of ArtThe Corcoran Gallery of ArtThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtNational Gallery of AustraliaThe Museum of Modern ArtThe Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumThe University of Michigan Museum of ArtThe Whitney Museum of American ArtBudd died on October 8, 1991, at the age of 64, after a long illness followed by heart failure, at his home in Sarasota, Florida.