Description
1979 William Wilhelmi Texas Studio pottery Framed Art tile 4.25" tile, 7 1/8"<br>frame, no issues with either.<br><br>Corpus Christi potter William Wilhelmi has pieces in many private and public<br>collections world wide, including his iconic porcelain cowboy boots in the<br>Smithsonian.<br>Bill Wilhelmi began his artistic training by taking every art course offered at<br>San Diego State College from 1956 to 1960. The artist spent three years in the<br>Navy, where he said he spent most of his time decorating officers’ clubs, and<br>after his discharge enrolled in a graduate program at UCLA. The art that<br>Wilhelmi creates demonstrates a conscious movement away from the<br>Japanese-influenced style that he was taught at school, and a development of a<br>design that expresses his roots in Texas.
