William Judson Dickerson

• Dickerson is known as a regionalist painter and printmaker. His depicted scenes of rural Kansas and urban Wichita, as well as the mountains of New Mexico, where his family summered.

• Dickerson was an influential art educator, serving as director of the School of the Wichita Art Association (WAA) for over forty years. He was among the first artists to train American students in the printmaking method of lithography.

• Dickerson studied lithography with Bolton Brown at the Art Institute of Chicago. Despite receiving a teaching offer there, Dickerson abandoned Chicago’s art scene to return to his home state. He wrote his future wife Betty: “There are things I’ve got to paint in Kansas.”

• Dickerson became a leading member of the Prairie Print Makers, the Prairie Watercolor Painters, and the Kansas State Federation of Art, groups that promoted the arts through traveling regional exhibitions.