Bill Valentine was also a professional baseball umpire who was fired for trying to organize an American League umpires union.
Bill Valentine Biography
Billy Valentine was born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, on November 21, 1932. He is an artist and has been active in the art world since the 1950s.
He is best known for his abstract expressionist paintings, which often feature bold colors and geometric shapes. Valentine attended the University of Alabama, where he studied art and design.
After graduating, he moved to New York City and began exhibiting his work in galleries and museums. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others.
American instructor who was regarded as an educator as well as a missionary for the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and was a minister for over 30 decades in Asia.
He graduated with an education degree from Valparaiso University.
He was a student at Colgate Theological Seminary after teaching at the school for four years.
Shortly before his death, Bill told his friends, “I haven’t just had a good life. I’ve had a dream life.” He grew up in Little Rock, blocks away from what was then called Traveler Field and later became Ray Winder Field. As a boy, Bill worked at any job available job at the ballpark, including selling concessions and chasing foul balls. At 14, he began umpiring games for local amateur and semi-professional teams in the area.
Valentine has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
He has also been honoured with the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award and the National Academy of Design Award.
In 1948, Valentine replaced Charles Brown in Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers, then featuring jazz guitarist Oscar Moore. In1950,0 that line-up did a couple of recording sessions for RCA Victor before embarking on a 50-date tour. The “R & B Blue Notes” section of the May 27, 1950 issue of The Billboard, in announcing the tour, stated that Valentine had also recorded for Mercury Records (Mercury 8173).
The note added that the Blazers would be joined by Hal “Cornbread” Singer for part of the tour. The same line-up accompanied Mari Jones, Maxwell Davies (probably) and the former Nat King Cole Trio bassist Johnny Miller for a recording session in Los Angeles in 1952.
Jazz saxophonist Big Nick Nicholas mentioned to jazz archivist Phil Schaap a 1949/1950 New York recording session at which Valentine led a group featuring John Coltrane. Other musicians at session were possibly John Collins or Floyd Smith on guitar, possibly Ray Brown on bass and possibly Charles “Specs” Wright on drums.
In 1958, Bill Valentine appears as pianist on a February 1958 New York recording session with Bubber Johnson, Eric Dixon, Charles Jackson, Skeeter Best, Ruth Berman, Wendell Marshall and Panama Francis, accompanied by a choir.
He was the president for the American Baptist Union after it was granted a grant by He administered the American Baptist Union after it received a grant from John D. Rockefeller..
Bill and Ellouise were married for 37 years when she died in 1989. The couple had no children.
He has an estimated net worth of $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his successful career as an artist.
He married nurse Ina Jane Van Allen in 1903. He was preceded in death by his parents and his wife of 38 years, Mary Ellouise Pefferly. Bill is survived by his wife of 24 years, Nena Rose Hays Valentine.
Who are Bill Valentine Siblings?
He is the only child of William Terry Valentine Sr., a railroad worker, and Margaret Kremer Valentine.
He does not have siblings.
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