High School Yearbook "Constructed" by William T. Wiley
Heading: (Wiley, William T.)
Author:
Title: Columbia High School Richland, Washington Presenting the 1955 Columbian
Place Published: Richland, WA
Publisher:Columbia High School
Date Published: 1955
Description:
[1] 2-183 [4]. (4to) 28x20 cm (11x8"), printed boards with cutout bookmark and band jacket with printed bookmark instructions.
Listed as "Bill Wiley Construction Worker" in the credits, Wiley's sure hand is apparent throughout the book in the many drawings and color overlays. Featuring a cut-out with a distinctive Wiley caricature, the cover illustration and lettering prefigure much of his carnivalesque style to come. The poet and arts educator James McGrath, listed as one of the authors of the remarkable educational preface in this volume, was, according to the Smithsonian Archives of Art, "a high school art teacher at Columbia High School in Richland, Washington where he taught William T. Wiley in the mid-1950s. They remained life-long friends." Other copy from fellow educators evince an academic situation designed to nurture a budding artist of Wiley's stature. From the preface:
"To learn to observe with clear-seeing eye and draw well what is observed would civilize certain faculties now dormant, but, more important, it would be the intimate approach to the general study of all Nature structure. That study which we call 'abstraction.' All abstraction is a kind of study of architecture! It would be that kind of research going in behind mere appearances looking for significant pattern, that would inspire the growing design-faculty of the young designer."
Heading: (Wiley, William T.)
Author:
Title: Columbia High School Richland, Washington Presenting the 1955 Columbian
Place Published: Richland, WA
Publisher:Columbia High School
Date Published: 1955
Description:
[1] 2-183 [4]. (4to) 28x20 cm (11x8"), printed boards with cutout bookmark and band jacket with printed bookmark instructions.
Listed as "Bill Wiley Construction Worker" in the credits, Wiley's sure hand is apparent throughout the book in the many drawings and color overlays. Featuring a cut-out with a distinctive Wiley caricature, the cover illustration and lettering prefigure much of his carnivalesque style to come. The poet and arts educator James McGrath, listed as one of the authors of the remarkable educational preface in this volume, was, according to the Smithsonian Archives of Art, "a high school art teacher at Columbia High School in Richland, Washington where he taught William T. Wiley in the mid-1950s. They remained life-long friends." Other copy from fellow educators evince an academic situation designed to nurture a budding artist of Wiley's stature. From the preface:
"To learn to observe with clear-seeing eye and draw well what is observed would civilize certain faculties now dormant, but, more important, it would be the intimate approach to the general study of all Nature structure. That study which we call 'abstraction.' All abstraction is a kind of study of architecture! It would be that kind of research going in behind mere appearances looking for significant pattern, that would inspire the growing design-faculty of the young designer."
