David Wilson Budd Jr. was born on March 31, 1927, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
[1][2][3] He graduated from St. Petersburg High School, then enrolled at the University of Florida to study architecture.
[3] He later shifted his focus to painting after watching a film about Jackson Pollock.
[5] He moved to Paris in the 1960s, to work with the Galerie Stadler, and returned to the United States in 1968.
[8] His paintings are held in a variety of permanent collections, including: Budd died on October 8, 1991, at the age of 64, after a long illness followed by heart failure, at his home in Sarasota, Florida.