William T. Williams is an American painter. He is Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, whose faculty he joined in 1971. Williams is a recipient of numerous awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. In the 1970’s Williams returned home to the dusty unpaved roads of North Carolina for the inspiration of a new palette, one born of the luster and glow of mica, false gold, and fox fire from earth’s pulsating cover. Williams’ relief from color-field painting was celebrated in the new works completed between 1971–77, such as “Equinox” and “Indian Summer”. In 1975 William also took part in an artist in residence program at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.He is also a recipient of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Artist Award in 1992 and received The James Van Dee Zee Award from the Brandywine Workshop for lifetime achievement in the arts in 2005. In 1968 he received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from Yale University School of Art and Architecture. Williams quickly gained attention from the mainstream art world. The Museum of Modern Art acquired his composition “Elbert Jackson L.A.M.F., Part II” in 1969, and by 1970 his work was being exhibited at the Fondation Maeght in the south of France.