JANE WILSON
About the Artist
Born on April 29, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, Andy WarholJane Wilson was an American painter best known for her horizon landscapes of sunsets, storms, clouds, and the ocean rendered in expressive and vibrant colors. Over her career, she transitioned from Abstract-Expressionist works to landscapes, a change attributable to her many social connections with New York-based artists such as 1924 in Seymour, IA, Wilson cited her upbringing in the Great Plains as an influence on her landscape paintings. She also honed her style when she went on to study at the University of Iowa under Dr. Lester Longman.
Today, Wilson’s work is represented by DC Moore Gallery in New York, and her paintings are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others. She died on January 13, 2015 in New York, NY
Artist CV
COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY[17]
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Academy Museum, New York, NY
The National Academy of Design, New York, NY
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
PRIZES
2009 ArtHamptons, Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree in Painting and Photography
2002 The Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, NY, Lifetime Achievement Award
1993 The Lotus Club Medal of Merit, New York, NY
1990 National Academy of Design, New York, NY Benjamin Altman Prize
1988 The Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY The Eloise Spaeth Award for Distinguished Achievement in Painting
1987 National Academy of Design, New York, NY Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize
1985 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, Award in Art
1985 National Academy of Design, New York, NY, Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize
1981 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, Childe Hassam Purchase Fund
1977 National Academy of Design, New York, NY, Ranger Purchase Prize
1973 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, Childe Hassam Purchase Fund
1972 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, Childe Hassam Purchase Fund
1967 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY
1963 Ingram Merrill Foundation, New York, NY