1877 - 1975
Williams came to the United States in 1885. He studied nights at the Art Institute of Chicago and worked days as a photographic retoucher and commercial artist. He went on to illustrate for the New York Herald Tribune (1927-34), the Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, Collier's, and Ladies' Home Journal.
In 1906 he married Clark Peck, and in 1930 Mina Van Bott. From 1923 he maintained a studio in Greenwich Village. He was also active at Leonia, New Jersey. He served as head of the department of fine arts at Wyoming State University (1948-52). He organized the American Artists' Professional League and served as president 1955-57.
His major works include: stained glass windows and murals for the Indiana State Library and Historical Building at Indianapolis; stained glass windows for the library of the University of Illinois (1925); stained glass windows for the King Memorial Main Reading Room and the Gilman Memorial at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. For the 1939 New York Worlds Fair Shelter Building he did a 70' enamel mural which now hangs in the depot at Cleveland, Ohio. For the American Battle Monuments Commission he did 17 enamel maps for World War II memorial monuments in cemeteries.
In 1906 he married Clark Peck, and in 1930 Mina Van Bott. From 1923 he maintained a studio in Greenwich Village. He was also active at Leonia, New Jersey. He served as head of the department of fine arts at Wyoming State University (1948-52). He organized the American Artists' Professional League and served as president 1955-57.
His major works include: stained glass windows and murals for the Indiana State Library and Historical Building at Indianapolis; stained glass windows for the library of the University of Illinois (1925); stained glass windows for the King Memorial Main Reading Room and the Gilman Memorial at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. For the 1939 New York Worlds Fair Shelter Building he did a 70' enamel mural which now hangs in the depot at Cleveland, Ohio. For the American Battle Monuments Commission he did 17 enamel maps for World War II memorial monuments in cemeteries.
