Art Brokerage: (1942-) William Dorsey was born in 1942 and as a nationally recognized twentieth-century California painter, has had work in auctions alongside early California Masters of Plein-Air painting. Premier collectors of California art own his paintings. William Dorsey is a 1960 graduate of the Famous Artist Course, Westport, Connecticut and is currently a resident of Ojai, California, and Red Mountain via Homer, Alaska. He was influenced and inspired by Alaskan painter Sydney Laurence and the early California Impressionists. Painting oil landscapes primarily of California and Alaska, Dorsey travels extensively. He has painted, shown and published in: Stowe, Vermont; Taos, New Mexico; Sun Valley, Idaho; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; as well as California and Alaska.