Joseph Wolins

Joseph Wolins (born Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1915, died 1999, New York City) was an American painter whose influences included [Piero della Francesca] , Mantegna and Giotto. He studied at the National Academy of Design between 1935 and 1941 with Leon Kroll and held his first solo exhibition in 1947 at the New York Contemporary Arts Gallery.

Exhibitions

World’s Fair, New York
J.B. Neumann Gallery, New York
Toledo Museum, Toledo Ohio
Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.
University of Illinois Art Museum
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Whitney Museum, New York
Sao Paolo Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Norfolk Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio

Solo Shows

Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York
Bodley Gallery, New York
Silvermine Guild, Norwalk, Connecticut
Agra Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Adler Gallery, New York
Perlow Gallery, New York

Permanent Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Norfolk Museum, Virginia
Albrecht Museum, St. Joseph’s University, Missouri
The Museum in Ein Hod, Israel
Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, Connecticut
New Britain Museum, Connecticut
Boca Raton Museum, Florida
Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, New York
Ball State University Art Museum, Muncie, Indiana

Awards

The Mark Rothko Award
Audobon Arts
National Institute of Arts and Letters
American Society of Contemporary Artists
Listed in:
Who’s Who in America
Who’s Who International
Who’s Who in American Art

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References

[http://www.artgalny.com/info/Joseph_Wolins_bio.html Artgalny.com]