Jane Wilson Art

Jane Wilson (Born 1924) was born in Seymour, Iowa. Her career as an artist began in the early 1960s. It was during those years that The Museum of Modern Art acquired her large landscape, and she was also commissioned by Warhol Andy commissioned her to paint his portrait, which he later donated to the Whitney Museum of American Art. She became a member of Tibor de Nagy Gallery, which by then represented mainly young painters, including several of her friends and other artists including Porter, Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Larry Rivers, Nell Blaine and Jane Freilicher. By then, Jane, her husband, Gruen, and their daughter, Julia, were residing on East 10th Street, which led Jane to create distinctive cityscapes of the park and nearby neighborhood. The artist also painted the Water Mill area. This is where, in 1960, the couple bought an old house. From the late 1960s to the late 1970s, Jane focused on still lifes set in her studio and apartment, including a group of out of sight paintings of artist materials and worktables. In 1968, she moved to the Upper West Side and lived there until her death in 2015. In the early 1980s, she returned to painting landscapes, and developed a unique style for which she became known for to date – glowing works that hover between representation and abstraction, inspired by the land around Water Mill, the sea and the sky. She’s also known for the framed Jane Wilson art which are found in several stores all over the world.