About Ronald York Wilson

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    Ronald York Wilson RCA, OSA, CGP, ALC (1907 - 1984)

    Ronald York Wilson was a painter, commercial artist and muralist who was born in Toronto and after much traveling returned there in the last years of his life (1982). He also had a home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and a studio in New York City. His mediums were oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink, collage, chalk, pencil, lithograph, charcoal and much more. His subjects were pure abstract, seascapes, landscapes, nudes, figures, portraits, historical, and social commentary. His styles abstract expressionism, geometric abstract, primitive and representational.

    He studied at the Central Technical School in Toronto with Fred Challener, Peter Haworth and Alfred How...

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