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Renowned African American artist John Wilson’s work is currently featured in a major new exhibit at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA titled, “John Wilson: Eternal Presence.” Mr. Wilson was born in Roxbury, MA in 1922. Early in his career, he studied under Karl Zerbe at the Museum School in Boston. His direct link to Roxbury Community College came in 1985 when he won a sculpture competition. Five years later he erected “Father and Child,” a seven-foot-tall bronze sculpture of a man and child reading together, on the campus of RCC. Mr. Wilson’s early work displayed themes of despair, poverty, and anger related to racial oppression. His later work has been characterized as representing “a sense of hope rather than despair.” Eighty-four drawings, prints, sculptures, and oils are in the Danforth Museum show. For additional information, go to http://danforthmuseum.org/johnwilson.html
Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee recently wrote that “One of the things you notice first in ‘Eternal Presence,’ a terrific career survey of John Wilson at the Danforth Museum of Art, is how attentive Wilson is to the faces of children.” Mr. Smee continued that “He doesn’t sentimentalize or caricaturize children. He doesn’t give them false or generic expressions. He gets them just so.” To read Mr Smee’s complete review of “John Wilson: Eternal Presence,” go to http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2012/11/29/john-wilson-clear-and-present/OgFjg0uPPeO5AndFeIBi2K/story.html
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