Biografie von John Woodrow WILSON (1922-2015)

Birth place: Roxbury, MA

Addresses: Roxbury, MA

Profession: Painter, lithographer, illustrator, teacher

Studied: BMFA Sch.; Tufts College (B.S. in Educ.); in Paris with Fernand Leger and in Mexico.

Exhibited: Nat. Negro Art Exhib., Atlanta Univ., 1943-52; CI, 1944-946; Albany Inst., 1945; LOC, 1945-46, 1953; Smith College, 1941; Wellesley College, 1943; Inst. Mod. Art, 1943-45; Springfield Mus. Art, 1945-46; Boris Mirski Gal., Boston, 1944-56; AGAA, 1946; MMA, 1950; Brooklyn Mus.; NAD; Am. Printmakers, Paris, France; SAGA, 1953, 1955; CM, 1953; MoMA, 1954; Art Wood Gal., Boston, 1954 (solo); Exch. Exh. Am. Prints, Italy, 1955; NY City College, 1967; BMFA, 1970; Newark Mus., 1971; American Internat. College, Springfield, MA, 1971 (solo); Boston Pub. Lib., 1973. Awards: prizes, BMFA Sch.; Atlanta Univ., 1954, 1955; Inst. Mod. Art, Boston, 1943 (prize), 1945 (prize); Pepsi-Cola, 1946 (prize); Paige traveling scholarship, BMFA Sch., 1946; John Hay Whitney Fellowship, 1950-51; International Inst. of Exchange Fellowship, for study in Mexico, 1952.

Member: Nat. Center Afro-American Artists, Roxbury, MA (board directors)

Work: Smith College; MoMA; NYPL; Boston Pub. Lib.; Atlanta Univ.; CI; Howard Univ.; Pepsi-Cola Collection; Dept. FA, French Govt.; Bezalel Mus., Jerusalem; Brandeis Univ.; Tufts Univ.

Comments: Position: teacher, Pratt Inst., 1958; Boston Univ.; art faculty, BMFA; board directors, Elma Lewis School Fine Arts.

Sources: WW59; WW47; Cederholm, Afro-American Artists.