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1899 Mayfield, Kentucky - 1977 New York, New York. Known for: Afro-naive to mod figure, animal, painting, illustration.
The following, submitted October 2005, is from Albert Sperath, curator of the March 2000 Wilson exhibition at Murray State University and biographer of the artist: The Art of Ellis Wilson, University... Read full biography
The following, submitted October 2005, is from Albert Sperath, curator of the March 2000 Wilson exhibition at Murray State University and biographer of the artist: The Art of Ellis Wilson, University Press of Kentucky. A once-acclaimed Kentucky-born artist who captured the black culture in the... Read full biography
The following, submitted October 2005, is from Albert Sperath, curator of the March 2000 Wilson exhibition at Murray State University and biographer of the artist: The Art of Ellis Wilson, University Press of Kentucky. A once-acclaimed Kentucky-born artist who captured the black culture in the Southeast and Haiti of his time, Ellis Wilson is little-known in his home state today. To remedy this neglect and to celebrate the centennial of his birth, he became the subject of a February through... Read full biography
The following, submitted October 2005, is from Albert Sperath, curator of the March 2000 Wilson exhibition at Murray State University and biographer of the artist: The Art of Ellis Wilson, University Press of Kentucky. A once-acclaimed Kentucky-born artist who captured the black culture in the Southeast and Haiti of his time, Ellis Wilson is little-known in his home state today. To remedy this neglect and to celebrate the centennial of his birth, he became the subject of a February through March 2000 exhibition premiered at Murray State University in the Clara M. Eagle Art Gallery, 25 miles southeast of Mayfield, birthplace of the artist. The exhibition, organized by Albert Sperath, Director of the Eagle Gallery, featured forty-five... Read full biography
The following, submitted October 2005, is from Albert Sperath, curator of the March 2000 Wilson exhibition at Murray State University and biographer of the artist: The Art of Ellis Wilson, University Press of Kentucky. A once-acclaimed Kentucky-born artist who captured the black culture in the Southeast and Haiti of his time, Ellis Wilson is little-known in his home state today. To remedy this neglect and to celebrate the centennial of his birth, he became the subject of a February through March 2000 exhibition premiered at Murray State University in the Clara M. Eagle Art Gallery, 25 miles southeast of Mayfield, birthplace of the artist. The exhibition, organized by Albert Sperath, Director of the Eagle Gallery, featured forty-five paintings that were borrowed from private collectors, art dealers, and museums. Of this exhibit,... Read full biography
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Keywords (27)
Art Method
- •Advertising Art
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Figurative, Human Figure
- •Folk Art, Naive, Primitive
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Naive, Childlike, Intuitive
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Still Life
- •Tropical Landscape Scenes
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Animal Specialty
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Harmon Foundation, Harlem
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting