Bill Witt
American, 1921 - 2013
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BiographyWilliam Witt (American, born 1921) studied photography with Paul Strand as well as painting with Hans Hoffman at the Art Student's League. Growing up during the Depression, Witt was inspired by the great documentary photographers of the Farm Security Administration, i.e. Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Ben Shahn. He joined and exhibited with the Photo League until it stopped running in 1951. His work is in many private collections and public museums: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hallmark Collection, the Smithsonian Institute, and many university museum collections.
