By Albert Sperath, Margaret R. Vendryes, Steven H. Jones, Eva King
From the tobacco fields of western Kentucky to the streets of Harlem, from the Gullah Islands off the South Carolina and Georgia coasts to the all-black republic of Haiti, painter Ellis Wilson (1899-1977) tested the scope and intensity of black culture.
One of Kentucky's most vital African American artists, Wilson graduated from the artwork Institute of Chicago in 1923. He spent 5 extra years within the urban earlier than relocating to ny, the place he lived for the remainder of his existence. apart from his participation within the WPA's Federal Arts venture and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he used to be by no means capable of help himself absolutely by way of portray. but his paintings has lengthy been praised for its boldness and individuality. Black employees have been a favourite topic: box palms, manufacturing facility employees, loggers, fishermen, and more.
Of his Nineteen Forties sequence of black manufacturing facility staff, Wilson said, "That used to be the 1st time I had ever obvious my humans operating in undefined, so I painted them." through the years his documentary kind gave solution to person who emphasised form and colour over natural illustration. regardless of exhibitions in manhattan and somewhere else, Wilson thought of a small express on the public library in his homeland of Mayfield in 1947 to be "one of the excessive issues" of his existence. This catalog accompanies the 1st significant retrospective of Wilson's work.
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They seemed to satisfy some.. thing within the artist. " In 1952, Ellis Wilson's work was shown in a one"person exhibition at Mary Ed McCoy Hall gallery at Murray State Univer.. sity. At the time-a time in Kentucky's his.. tory when, as Steven Jones and Eva King point out, blacks were not allowed to attend white colleges in the Commonwealth-it was the only gallery on campus. Though the old gallery was abandoned with the opening of the Clara M. Eagle Art Gallery in 1971, it seems particularly fitting that a major retro..
Servator's terms, causing the work to deterio.. rate, in some cases to the point of being un.. recognizable. And his relative obscurity in the mainstream (white) art gallery world likely aided in the disappearance of much of his work. His death in 1977 with no heirs contributed to that obscurity, although his friends were able to save his art and his repu.. tation. Wilson was relatively prolific. During my research of titles in published articles, bi.. ographies, applications, and catalogues, I discovered more than 270 (not including works on paper or sculpture).
I also had a goal of pro.. ducing a painting catalogue raisonne. The task has been complicated by the fact that Wilson rarely dated or titled his paintings, although almost everyone is signed. According to Margaret Vendryes, there is a school of thought that suggests that painters did not date their works during this time because they wanted clients to perceive their works as new and fresh and not as the previous years' offerings. I have found paint.. ings listed and reproduced with different ti..