Painter William T. Williams Has Stayed Curious on the Canvas for Six Decades

“There’s something to learn every time I go in the studio,” William T. Williams told me this past spring. “Anything that I did yesterday I have to forget, and I have to enter the studio and enter the paintings as if it’s the first time that I’ve had engagement.” He likes to keep the process “as open as possible,” but still, he is always “thinking about two or three steps ahead.” He keeps at it until he has followed “where th