Joseph Wolins


Joseph Wolins 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. His work is in public collections including those of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Butler Institute of American Art.

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

São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, 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

Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, Texas

Awards

The Mark Rothko Award

Audubon 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