Joseph Wolins was an American

United States

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 painter whose influences included Piero della Francesca

Piero della Francesca

Piero della Francesca was a painter of the Early Renaissance. As testified by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists, to contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting was characterized by its...

, Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality...

 and Giotto. He studied at the National Academy of Design

National Academy of Design

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 between 1935 and 1941 with Leon Kroll

Leon Kroll

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 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

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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 and the Butler Institute of American Art

Butler Institute of American Art

The Butler Institute of American Art, located on Wick Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, was the first museum dedicated exclusively to American art. Established by local industrialist and philanthropist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., the museum has been operating pro bono since 1919...

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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

Bodley Gallery

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, 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

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

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