William (Bill) Horace Littlefield (October 28, 1902 – July 5, 1969) was an American painter known for his figure studies of male nudes and in later life his large paintings in an abstract expressionist style.
After graduating from Harvard in 1924, Littlefield departed for Paris to further his studies in painting, and where he met and shared a studio with the English painter and printmaker Stanley William Hayter.
After returning to the U.S. in 1929 Littlefield settled first in Boston and then on his parents’ property at Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod during the summers.
In 1931, he was commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein to create stage sets for the American Ballet’s first production of Serenade and Mozartiana at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.
In the fall of 1951, Littlefield rented a studio in Manhattan to study with Morris Davidson and, during the summer of 1952, with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown.