Haywood “Bill” Rivers was born in 1922 in North Carolina. He studied at the Art Students League in New York and the École du Musée du Louvre in Paris. His work saw considerable success, winning the Gretchen H. Hutzler Award, the Baltimore Museum Annual Prize, and Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1948, as well as the John Hay Whitney Fellowship in 1952. Rivers was a co-founder of Galerie Huit in Paris. The cooperative gallery exhibited many American artists including Paul Keene, Edward Clark, and Herbert Gentry.
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