John Wilson ART FOR SALE

1922 Roxbury, Massachusetts - 2015 Brookline, Massachusetts. Known for: Genre-figure painting, sculpture, graphics.

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John Wilson, at 92; artist spurred by social realities. Obituary. Boston Globe, January 26, 2015. By Bryan Marquard . In the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., stands a 3-foot-tall bronze bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that is surely the most viewed creation of John Wilson, an artist who grew up in Roxbury and painted, sculpted, and made prints out of his home studio in Brookline for decades. Like much of his most important work, the bust brings viewers to the intersection of art and politics, of pure creativity and the desire to examine social injustice. Mr. Wilson, who was 92 when he died Thursday evening in his Brookline home, pursued that path since he was a boy on Roxbury's streets, learning to sketch and honing a... Read full biography

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Roz No. 5

Type:Drawing

Year:1972

Size:24.00" x 19.00"

Medium:Pastel

Signed:Lower Right

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Black pastel and pencil on paper Signed "Wilson" and dated 1972, l.r. also titled, inscribed pencil, dated 1972 twice and signed "John Wilson" on an old label affixed to the back