BILLY DEE WILLIAMS grew up in Harlem with a family that actively encouraged his artistic abilities and fostered an enthusiasm for all forms of cultural expression. He began drawing at an early age and won scholarships to the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design in New York. There he studied classical principles of painting. Ironically, it was the need to earn money to buy paints and canvas that brought Williams his extensive credits in both television and film.

 

*  National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC

* The Schomburg Museum in New York.

* The New Orleans Museum of African American Art, Culture and History

* Kansas City Jazz Museum