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He distinguished himself as a curator there in the 1980s and founded the exhibition and public programs forum at California College of the Arts, now known as the Wattis Institute.
SFGate: Top News Stories Kenneth Baker 2009
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The piece that I've just done, for a show [at the Wattis Institute] in San Francisco about Huckleberry Finn, has a title that names me as "Mr Kara Walkerberry".
Robert Ayers: "Almost Political By Accident." A Conversation With Artist Kara Walker. Robert Ayers 2010
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The piece that I've just done, for a show [at the Wattis Institute] in San Francisco about Huckleberry Finn, has a title that names me as "Mr Kara Walkerberry".
Robert Ayers: "Almost Political By Accident." A Conversation With Artist Kara Walker. Robert Ayers 2010
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The piece that I've just done, for a show [at the Wattis Institute] in San Francisco about Huckleberry Finn, has a title that names me as "Mr Kara Walkerberry".
Robert Ayers: "Almost Political By Accident." A Conversation With Artist Kara Walker. Robert Ayers 2010
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In the meantime, Bechtel was designated as first vice president, E. O. Wattis as second vice president, Kahn as treasurer, and Shea as secretary.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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He wasted little time before displaying these traits to W. H. Wattis, who called meetings of the board when the spirit moved him and withheld basic financial information from the directors.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The Wattis brothers had grown up on a dismal family farm, Kahn pocketed his first pennies as a Detroit newsboy, Shea had started looking after his eight orphaned siblings at the age of thirteen, and Morrison, Bechtel, and Kaiser had each left home as youths to find their fortune.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The upshot was that with the exception of the ailing Will Wattis the partners each spent long sojourns at the site, serially volunteering to Crowe their opinions—or in their view, directives—about how to run the job.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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“Frank and Hank will build that dam,” William H. Wattis boasted.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Wattis was named president, in recognition of his craggy seniority and also, quite likely, the running out of his mortal string; he would succumb to his cancer six months later, to be succeeded as president by Dad Bechtel.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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