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Birth
1899 (Kentucky)
Death
1977
Lived/Active
New York / United Kingdom
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Afro-naive to mod figure, animal, painting, illustration
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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 (showing 500 of 3222 characters). |
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