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William Palmer was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He began his art studies at the Art Students League of New York, and then attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied fresco painting. Employed with government commissions, he executed murals for United States post offices in Arlington, Massachusetts, and Monticello, Iowa, and for Queens General Hospital in New York. In 1939, Palmer was appointed supervisor of the Mural Department of the City of New York, a WPA Federal Art Project. From 1941 to 1974, he served as director of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York. |