Whitney Halstead (1926 - 1979) was an American art historian, and artist. He graduated from the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum an ...

with a B.F.A and M.F.A. He taught art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His papers are held at the

Archives of American Art The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 20 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washing ...

. Halstead was the primary supporter of the work of Joseph Yoakum and has been noted as an influential teacher by many of the

Chicago Imagists The Chicago Imagists are a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s. Their work was known for grotesquerie, Surrealism and complete ind ...

and painters

Barbara Grad Barbara Grad (born 1950) is an American artist and educator, known for abstract, fractured landscape paintings, which combine organic and geometric forms, colliding planes and patterns, and multiple perspectives.Yau, John. ''Barbara Grad – FAQ: ...

, Paul Lamantia and David Sharpe.Christine Newman, "When Jim Met Gladys", "Chicago" Magazine, Vol. 60 No. 2, February 2011, pp. 78-81,92,146-148,164

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*http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/artist/6927 *http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/artist/6927 1926 births 1979 deaths American art historians American artists School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers {{US-artist-stub