Wallace Bassford

Wallace Bassford was an American painter and illustrator, born in 1900 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He attended the Saint Louis School of Fine Art and was a member of St. Louis Artists' Guild. He also lived in New York City, Provincetown, Massachusetts and Palm Beach. His works were exhibited at galleries and museums across the United State including the Saint Louis Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art. Bassford was known particularly for his floral still lifes and female portrait figures. Wallace Bassford died in 1998.