artist’s found typically in his watercolors from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Born in New Orleans,
Pajaud earned a BFA at Xavier University, before moving to Los Angeles in 1948. At the time,
William Pajaud exhibited at Heritage Gallery, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Esther Robles
Gallery; he also belonged to the short-lived artist collective, Eleven Associated, which included
BeulahWoodard,Alice Gafford andTylerWong. Pajaud was appointed the art director at the Golden
State Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1957, and soon launched their active collection of African-
American art, and included works by many of his contemporaries. Pajaud’s artwork can be found
in the collections of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,Washington,
DC, the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, and the collection of Camille O. andWilliam H.
Cosby, Jr. Jones pp. 150-51.
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