Gilbert Brown Wilson
| Gilbert Brown Wilson | |
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| Born |
March 4, 1907 Terre Haute, Indiana |
| Died | January 16, 1991 (aged 83) Frankfort, Kentucky |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| Education | Indiana State University, Chicago Art Institute, Yale University |
| Known for | painting, murals |
| Movement | social realism |
Gilbert Brown Wilson (1907–1991) was an American painter known for his large-scale murals, including his 1935 murals in Woodrow Wilson Junior High School in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Much of his later life was dedicated to depicting Herman Melville's Moby Dick. In 1955 a short film using this body of artwork won a Silver Reel Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Wilson was born on March 4, 1907, in Terre Haute to parents Martha, a former opera singer, and Wilton A. Wilson, a banker. An active Boy Scout, he attended McLean Junior High and graduated from Garfield High School in 1925.
Wilson attended Indiana State Normal (now Indiana State University) and studied under professor of art William T. Turman. In 1928 he began instruction at the Chicago Art Institute, where he exhibited at the Hoosier Salon and won two awards, in 1929 and 1930. In Chicago, Wilson met mural painter Eugene Savage, from whom he learned the craft of murals at Yale School of Fine Arts. Wilson became enamored with the work of prominent muralists Diego Rivera and José Orozco and travelled to Mexico to study under Rivera; there he would also study with sculptor Urbici Soler.
Inspired by Rivera, Orozco and Savage, as well as Terre Haute-area thinkers like social activist Eugene Debs and writers Theodore Dreiser and Max Ehrmann, much of Wilson's work concerns the plight of the common man. Common themes in his murals are war, capitalism, industrialization and ecological issues.
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