Jane Wilson
1924–2015
Introduction
Jane Wilson (1924–2015) was an American artist associated with both landscape painting and expressionism. She lived and worked in New York City and Water Mill, New York.
Wilson's painting American Horizon, was on display at the 2025 Inaugural Luncheon.
While talented and pioneering in mixing realism with abstract, Jane was prefigured by Leonard Nelson, a protege of Peggy Guggenheim and Betty Parsons, and Leader of The Philadelphia School of Art.
Wikidata identifier
Q6152947
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Introduction
American painter is known for her focus on landscape, though her work incorporated elements of expressionism and abstraction. She was active in New York City, and her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington; the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, painter
ULAN identifier
500016497
Names
Jane Wilson
Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed July 3, 2025.
