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Artist Ellis Wilson American, 1899–1977

Datecirca 1954

MediumOil with turpentine on panel

Dimensions22 3/8 x 28 13/16 in. (56.8 x 73.2 cm)
Frame: 26 x 32 1/4 x 1 1/4 in. (66 x 81.9 x 3.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number69.29.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated New York, ca. 1954; collection of the artist; sold to NCMA, 1969.Published ReferencesDorothy Rennie, "Three Black Artists," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 10 (June 1971), 3-13, discussed 12, illus. (b-w) fig. 7.

William Germain Dooley, "The Home Forum," Christian Science Monitor (April 24, 1972), illus. (b-w).

Two Centuries of Black American Art (exhibition catalogue) (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976), cat. no. 103.

N. E. Pendergraft, “Tracing the Rise of Afro-American Art in North Carolina,” Art Voices/South vol. 1, no. 2 (March/April 1978), mentioned 76, illus. (b-w) 74.

Black Artists/ South (exhibition catalogue) (Huntsville, AL: Huntsville Museum of Art, 1979), cat. no. 211, illus. (b-w).

Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson, A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present (New York, Pantheon Books, 1993), illus. (b-w) 342.

Albert Sperath, et al, The Art of Ellis Wilson (exhibition catalogue) (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2000), illus. (color) 59 (catalogue only, not in show).

Norman Vorano, "Cape Dorset Cosmopolitans: Making 'Local' Prints in Global Modernity" in Mapping Modernisms: Art Indigeneity, Colonialism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019), illus. (color)
Exhibition HistoryWinston-Salem, NC, Benton Convention Center (exhibition sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta), "Reflections: The Afro-American Artist," October 8-15, 1972.

Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Two Centuries of Black American Art," September 30-November 21, 1976; Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art, December 28, 1976-February 20, 1977; Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Art, March 29-May 22, 1977; Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Museum of Art, June 28-September 5, 1977, no. 103.

Huntsville, Ala., Huntsville Museum of Art, "Black Artists/ South," April 1-July 29, 1979, no. 211, illus. (b-w).
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