
John Wilson, a Black Artist Nearly Lost to Time, Gets a Retrospective
The artist John Woodrow Wilson (1922-2015) once said he was a black man who had endured “a kind of slow death.” How to best fight that protracted, frustrated violence? For Wilson, one solution is to produce art. In his paintings, sculptures and prints, he often deals with oppression head-on. Early in his career, he created shocking racist violence, workers’ rights
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