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An example of work by William A. Wilson
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following, submitted November 2004, is from the artist.
William Adjete "Fred" WILSON was born in France in 1952 to a French mother and a Togolese father (West Africa). He is currently living in Paris, France.
A self-taught artist, Wilson works in pastels, oil, sculpture mediums and does illustrations. His first show was in Paris in 1977.
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On a grant from the French government, he spent six months in New York City and then was invited in the "Yaddo" artists colony in the summer of 1986 for two months.
In 1987 he received a six weeks United States Information Association (USIA) grant to visit eight cities in the United States.
In the 1990s, Wilson had several shows in California including San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 1994, he had a three-months road tour of the Southwest states, visiting numerous natural parks, which resulted in a large series of pastels that he exhibited in Paris in 1994 and San Francisco in 1995.
Illustrations by Wilson are in the "New Yorker" magazine as well as university publications connected with Africa and French-African art and literature.
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