page_title: William C. Palmer
section_title: Paintings
hierarchical_section_title: William C. Palmer / Paintings
caption_attribution_description: English: Palmer painting a mural. On Verso; On the left: Title:Mural. On the right: Location, Artists' Homes', Date: Aug. 7- 36, Negative No. 136Y-l, Photographer: Herman Accompaning paper reads: WIlliam C. Palmer Born in 1906, Des Moines, Iowa. Studied at Art Students League, Ecoleves Beaux Arts De Fontainbleau, France; Taught privately; did a mural for Queens Co. General Hospital, while on PWAP, from July to Oct., 1934. Studied fresco, painting under Baudoun in 1927. Private instructor in techincal facts on painting, chemistry of color, method, oil in tempera and Florentine guilding.
context_page_description: William C. Palmer was an American painter who created public murals.
context_section_description: His work has been displayed worldwide including at the Paris Salon (1937), National Academy of Design (1946), Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Kansas City Art Institute. His works are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, the White House, Cranbrook Academy of Art, the National Gallery in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  His paintings are also on display at the U.S. Post Offices in Arlington, Massachusetts and Monticello, Iowa and at the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building in Washington, D.C.. The mural based on Pasteur at the Queens General Hospital in Jamaica, New York has been said to be used to teach doctors and nurses.
  Palmer was said to have made a sketch every day. After his wife's death, his paintings and papers were left to Hamilton College. An exhibition of his work was created in 2009.
caption: Palmer at work
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