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John Wilson

John Wilson

Artist

WA-00031751

Printmaking

Representation

None documented

2

Institutional Exhibitions

12

Works in Collection

16

Assets Indexed

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0

Publications Referenced

70%

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Authority Records (1)

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Young American Printmakers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1953–1954

No image

Master Prints from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1949

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/18963
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

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Artworks (12)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

2002 · etching and aquatint on chine collé

Sheet: 90.2 x 75.4 cm (35 1/2 x 29 11/16 in.); Matted: 110.6 x 93.3 cm (43 9/16 x 36 3/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Dialogue from Impressions: Our World, Volume I

Dialogue from Impressions: Our World, Volume I

1973 · Etching and aquatint from a portfolio of seven etchings (five with aquatint, two with embossing)

plate: 13 11/16 × 17 13/16" (34.8 × 45.2 cm); sheet: 30 × 22 1/4" (76.2 × 56.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1973 · charcoal and lithographic crayon on paper

Sheet: 45.7 x 61 cm (18 x 24 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Father and Child

1970 · color lithograph

Sheet: 71 x 50.5 cm (27 15/16 x 19 7/8 in.); Image: 50.2 x 36.5 cm (19 3/4 x 14 3/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Mother and Child

1952 · Lithograph

Sheet: 26 1/4 × 19 7/8 in. (66.7 × 50.5 cm) Image: 21 11/16 × 18 9/16 in. (55.1 × 47.1 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Mother and Child

Mother and Child

1952 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 55 × 48 cm (21 11/16 × 18 15/16 in.); Sheet: 62.5 × 50.4 cm (24 5/8 × 19 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mother and Child

1952 · lithograph

Sheet: 66.3 x 50.4 cm (26 1/8 x 19 13/16 in.); Image: 54.8 x 47.1 cm (21 9/16 x 18 9/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

1949 · lithograph

Sheet: 43.9 x 38.3 cm (17 5/16 x 15 1/16 in.); Image: 30 x 28 cm (11 13/16 x 11 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Coastal Landscape

1945 · black chalk/charcoal

Overall: 44.7 x 60.1 cm (17 5/8 x 23 11/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Mother and Child

1944 · lithograph

Sheet: 47.8 x 31.9 cm (18 13/16 x 12 9/16 in.); Image: 33.8 x 23.2 cm (13 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Adolescence

1943 · Lithograph

composition: 18 7/8 x 10 1/8" (47.9 x 25.7cm); sheet: 20 11/16 x 12" (52.6 x 30.5cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Breadwinner (War)

Breadwinner (War)

1942 · Lithographic crayon, with scraping and smudging, on cream wove paper

64 × 48.3 cm (25 1/4 × 19 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (4)

12 published of 14 catalogued · 6 with image

Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published
MoMA
2 publishedof 4 catalogued4 img
Art Institute Chicago
2 published2 img
Whitney
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)

7 entries · 1 sources

Martin Luther King, Jr.
2002 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Mother and Child
1952 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Nefertiti
1973 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Coastal Landscape
1945 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Rooftops
1949 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Mother and Child
1944 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Father and Child
1970 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Breadwinner (War) (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Breadwinner (War) (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

4

Collections4

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Young American Printmakers

New York · 1953

Group Exhibition Master Prints from the Museum Collection

New York · 1949