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William Dole immersed himself in art from a young age. A visit to see 'real art works' at the Chicago Art Institute further increased his appetite for the arts. Following his studies at the University of California, Berkeley and service in the Army during World War II, he balanced creative work with teaching at University of California, Santa Barbara and other institutions. After exploring drawing, painting and printmaking, his collages brought Dole to prominence in the early 1950's as a Modernist. Salvaged old European papers and Japanese papers techniques . Asian painting aesthetics and the incorporation of foreign text on unique papers became hallmarks of his work.
 

Dole's early collage shapes often referenced the European landscape he came to know from his travels during the 1950's, but he would later abandon any representational association. He often compared his collages to those of Pablo Picasso and Kurt Schwitters, two artists whose work he admired. Working in a cyclical way, he overlapped previous discoveries which led to an
architectural complexity of pattern, thought and timelessness.
 

1938-40     Studies art and humanities at the Olivet College, Michigan and at Mills College, Oakland.
1939-42     Teaching supervisor of Art, Angola Public Schools
1941           Marries Kathryn Lee Holcomb
1942-45     Serves in World War II , stationed in Alaska. Teaches drawing and painting
1946-47     Receives Master of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley
1947-49     Lecturer of Art at the University of California, Berkeley
1955-57     Sabbatical leave spent in Florence, Italy
1958-63     Serves as Chairman, Department of Art, University of California, Santa Barbara
1961           Exhibits in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition
1962           Teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara
1963-67     Exhibits in group shows at Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery, N.Y.C.
1971          Artist-In-Residence, Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
1971-74     Serves as Chairman, Department of Art, University of California, Santa Barbara
1974          Shows at the Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibition, N.Y.C.
1975          Designs cover for 'Art International' magazine, Lugano, January, 1975
1975          Presents 'Abecedarium,' a series of prints to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1976-77     Retrospective Exhibition
                  1960-1975, Municipal Art Gallery of Los Angeles, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Fine Arts Gallery of
                   San Diego, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1977          Twelve Americans: Masters of Collage, Andrew Crispo Gallery, N.Y.C.
1978          Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, conferred by Olivet College, Michigan
                  Art award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, N.Y.C.
1983          Completes 'Ultima' and dies in Santa Barbara, California
 

COLLECTIONS (A Selection):

The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Rockefeller University, New York, NY
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA