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name: Wilson
vorname: Sol (Solomon / Soloman)
wikidata-repräsentation: Q21995315
biografische angaben: Born in Poland in 1893, died in New York in 1974. American expressionist painter.
His father was a lithographer and it was in his shop that Sol got his first exposure to making art as he observed the workmen create designs for bottle labels and other things. His first experience at painting was to copy from old books and to duplicate the designs of the workmen. By the age of 15, he sold the contents of his studio and sailed to America. He worked in New York as an apprentice polisher in a jewelry factory, a doll-face painter, a photograph developer and retoucher, and a monitor at the National Academy of Design. He studied at night at Cooper Union and later at the National Academy and the Ferrer School with Bellows and Robert Henri.
In the late 20s, Wilson began to spend his summers in Maine and became associated with a group of artists who gathered to work there in summer, becoming known as the Rockport School. By the mid-40s, however, Wilson resettled in Provincetown and his art was developing into its own. During the 40s and 50s, Wilson won many prizes and medals in national art exhibitions. Over nearly 30 years of summer seasons, Wilson traveled the lower Cape making quick pen and ink and charcoal sketches from which he worked up his paintings in his studio in New York during the winter.
Sol Wilson’s paintings are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Library of Congress. In the summer of 1974, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum paid tribute to Wilson’s career as artist and teacher and service to the institution with a one person exhibition of his work.
Sol Wilson died in New York in 1974, at 81.