Frederick Ballard Williams

As a member of the National Academy, Salmagundi Club president, and founder of the American Artists Professional League, Williams was an influential figure in the promotion of 20th-century art in America.

He was educated in the public schools of Bloomfield and Montclair, New Jersey, attending art classes at night at Cooper Union and at the New York Institute of Artists and Artisans.

[3] He also studied privately with artist John Ward Stimson, whose work likely influenced Williams’ celebrated fête galante paintings.

[4] Williams traveled briefly in England and France, supporting himself by teaching in private schools,[2] before settling in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

In 1910, he took a trip with painters Thomas Moran, Elliott Daingerfield, Douglas Parshall and Edward Henry Potthast to the Grand Canyon and other western sites.