William Dunlap

William Dunlap was born in Houston, Mississippi on January 21, 1944. He has a degree from the University of Mississippi, and taught at Appalachian State University in North Carolina from 1970 to 1979 and Memphis State University from 1979 to 1980. He has lectured on art related subjects at colleges, universities, institutions and professional conferences. He serves as arts commentator on WETA-TV's cultural round table show, "Around Town." He currently maintains studios in McLean, Virginia, Mathiston, Mississippi and Coral Gables, Florida.

With a career that has spanned more than four decades, his large scale narrative paintings and constructions concern themselves with history, allegory and the art making process. "Hypothetical Realism" is a term Dunlap coined to describe his work in both the visual arts and fiction - "the places and things I paint and describe are not real, but they could be." Dunlap is an avid and accomplished printmaker as well as painter, sculptor and photographer. His work is included in collections such as the New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Mississippi Museum of Art, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art , Riggs Bank, IBM Corporation, Federal Express, The Equitable Collection, Arkansas Art Center, the United States State Department, and United States Embassies throughout the world.