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George L. Wilson
George L. Wilson was born in Windsor, North Carolina, in 1930 and deceased in 2003. Wilson lived and worked in the Bronx, NY in the second half of the 20th Century, and he is best known for painting of children and of political and entertainment figures.

Artist’s Statement

George L. Wilson studied at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, the School of Visual Arts in New York and the National School of Academy of Fine Arts. And in 1965 he received a study in Spain and Italy. A representation of his painting “Tender Care” was published on the cover of “Black World Magazine” in February 1973, the same year he was a member of the Bronx Council of the Arts. This painting hangs in the Johnson Publishing Building in Chicago (Dudley,2010).

Dr. Grace Green, private collector, Niskayuna, NY purchased one of the "artist’s oil on canvas, The Trio, of three dark skinned youth, two girls and a boy, appearing to be engaged in a conservation, painted with broad fast strokes on a mottled blue and off-white and green background. Signed in red at the lower left corner Geo Wilson ‘81. The canvas is tacked to the mitered stretcher double keyed at the top and single keyed at the bottom." "Signed on the top stretcher “The Trio George Wilson.” On the verso the card of the artist: George Wilson Artist (Painter) 4197 Park Avenue Room #6, Bronx, NY 10457 562- 0413 and an identifying label “The Trio by George Wilson from the collection of Grace Green.” Framed in a molded wooden frame with linen liner marked on verso “Hecho en Mexico.” Dimensions: Canvas size, 16” x 12”; framed, 17.5” x 20.5” Condition: good condition, not examined out of frame Style: figural, representational, second half of the 20th Century

Sources: Dudley & Dudley, Certified Personal Property Appraisers, Glens Falls, NY 12801 Pursuant to Article IV of the Elmer L. Green Revocable Trust Agreement, Niskayuna, NY