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Haywood Rivers - also known by the name of Bill - was an African American artist born in 1922 and grew up in North Carolina. As a teenager he moved to Baltimore and later, he studied art in New York at the Art Students League from 1946 to 1949. In 1948, Rivers was the recipiant of the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship and moved to Paris. Between the years of 1950 and 1952, he went on to study at the École du Musée du Louvre in Paris, France. While spending time living in France, he was a founder of the Galerie Huit, a cooperative art gallery in which the work of American artists could be displayed. His work recieved awards including the Baltimore Museum Annual Prize and the John Hay Whitney Fellowship.