Artist

Wheeler Williams

born Chicago, IL 1897-died Madison, CT 1972

Biography: Sculptor, a founder and president of the American Artist Professional League. He studied sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago and architecture at Harvard; portrait, garden and animal sculpture dominated his work.
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)
: Luce Artist Biography
Sculptor Wheeler Williams studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and his works include the west pediment of the Interstate Commerce Building in Washington, D.C. Williams was also president and a founder of the American Artists Professional League.