John Woodrow Wilson Paintings & Artwork for Sale | John Woodrow Wilson Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 03, 2024
JOHN WOODROW WILSON (1922 - 2015) Five Men.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
JOHN WOODROW WILSON (1922 - 2015) Five Men. Offset lithograph on white wove paper, 2004. 370x622 mm; 14½x24½ inches, wide margins. Printer's proof, aside from the edition of 56. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "P/P 2" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia. Another impression is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Reflecting upon his social and racial justice based practice, Wilson depicts five anonymous men that seem to have witnessed something unimaginable just outside the viewer's range. The central figures are wide-eyed and in motion while the other men look upon the viewer.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jul. 31, 2024
John Wilson (1922 - 2015): Lovers
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
John Wilson 1922-2015 Lovers crayon on paper signed lower right, titled to exhibition label applied to backing paper
Abell Auction
Jun. 29, 2024
JOHN WILSON (AMERICAN 1922-2015)
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
JOHN WILSON (AMERICAN 1922-2015) El Cargador, 1952 lithograph on cream wove paper image dimensions: 31 x 28 cm (12 1/4 x 11 in.) framed dimensions: 57 x 52 cm (22 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.) signed and dated on the lower right margin; numbered 22/30 and titled on the lower left margin PROVENANCE Swann Auction Galleries, New York, Feb 17, 2011, Lot 49 Acquired by the parents of the present owner from the above
Shapiro Auctions LLC
Jun. 08, 2024
John Wilson (1922 - 2015): Lovers
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
John Wilson 1922-2015 Lovers crayon on paper signed lower right, titled to exhibition label applied to backing paper
Abell Auction
May. 18, 2024
John Wilson, 1922-2015, Mexican Woman
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
John Wilson 1922-2015 Mexican Woman 1951 lithograph on cream wove paper, mounted to thin card stock 9-1/2 x 11-3/8 inches 1/4-inch margins signed, titled, dated and numbered 33/30
Black Art Auction
Feb. 16, 2024
WOODROW WILSON ENGRAVING
Est: $100 - $200
Wooden engraving of Woodrow Wilson signed Timothy Cole, 1918. after a painting by John Singer Sargeant. Dimensions: 9.5" x 7"
New Hampshire Auctions and Appraisals LLC
Oct. 19, 2023
JOHN WILSON (1912 - 2015) Self Portrait, No. 8.
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
JOHN WILSON (1912 - 2015) Self Portrait, No. 8. Pencil and opaque marker on thin vellum paper, 1997. 356x254 mm; 14x10 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower left. Titled in pencil, upper edge. Provenance: Ellen Sragow Gallery, New York; private collection, Chicago (2007).
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 19, 2023
JOHN WILSON (1922 - 2015) El Cargador.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - 2015) El Cargador. Lithograph on thin cream laid paper, 1952. 318x279 mm; 12 1/2x11 inches, wide (full?) margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 33/40 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression of this scarce print. We have found only one other impression of this print at auction in the past 20 years - sold at Swann Galleries on Februray 17, 2011.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 03, 2023
John Wilson (1922-2015); Street Car Scene;
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
John Wilson (1922-2015) Street Car Scene, 1945 Lithograph on Rives BFK paper, signed in pencil, titled and dated, with margins. 11 1/4 x 14 3/4in (28.6 x 37.5cm) sheet 13 5/8 x 17 1/4in (34.6 x 43.8cm) For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
May. 20, 2023
John Wilson, 1922-2015, Man Attacked, From the Richard Wright Series
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
John Wilson 1922-2015 Man Attacked, From the Richard Wright Series 2001 Etching and aquatint on wove paper 12 x 16 inches Published by the Limited Editions Club Signed, dated and numbered 19/60
Black Art Auction
Apr. 06, 2023
JOHN WILSON (1922 - 2015) La Calle.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - 2015) La Calle. Color lithograph on thin wove paper, 1951. 205x355 mm; 8x14 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 14/22 in pencil, lower margin. Printed at the Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City. Illustrated (another impression): In the Spirit of Resistance, African-American Modernists and the Mexican Muralist School, 1996, pl. 88, p. 163. A very good impression of this scarce lithograph - we have not found another impression at auction in 15 years. In 1950, John Wilson was awarded a John Hay Whitney fellowship which enabled him and his wife to move to Mexico City. There he joined Elizabeth Catlett and enrolled at La Esmeralda School to study mural painting. Catlett also introduced Wilson to the Taller de Gráfica Popular where he produced a number of lithographs depicting Mexican workers and street scenes. The Wilsons lived in Mexico until 1956 before returning to the US.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 19, 2022
John Wilson, 1922-2015, Five Men
Est: $2,500 - $4,500
John Wilson 1922-2015 Five Men 2004 offset lithograph 15 x 24-3/4 inches (image), 17-1/2 x 27 inches (sheet). Signed, titled, dated and numbered (edition of 56) PP Wilson was a Boston painter, sculptor and printmaker. He was influenced by the Mexican muralists, in terms of both style and subject matter, and addressed issues of racism and oppression of African American people in his art. He grew up in Roxbury and took art classes at Roxbury Memorial High School before continuing his education at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). He also studied in Paris with Fernand Leger. Upon his return to the U.S., he married Julie Kowitch, a teacher, and traveled to Mexico. He later taught at Pratt University in New York, and Boston University.
Black Art Auction
Nov. 19, 2022
John Woodrow Wilson, 1922-2015, Urbanites
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
John Woodrow Wilson 1922-2015 Urbanites 1964 lithograph 11-3/4 x 14-3/8 inches (image) 13 x 19 inches (sheet) signed, dated, titled and A.P. aside from an edition of 30 Note: Wilson produced at least two different images in lithography with this title.
Black Art Auction
Oct. 06, 2022
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) Boulevard de Strasbourg.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) Boulevard de Strasbourg. Color lithograph on cream wove paper, 1950. 305x432 mm; 12x17 inches, full margins, with the registration marks. Artist's proof, aside from an edition of an unknown size. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Artist Proof" in pencil, lower margin. A good, bright impression of this very extremely scarce print. In 1947, John Wilson won the James William Paige Traveling Fellowship and moved to Paris, where he worked in Fernand Léger's studio. Here, Wilson's use of shapes and forms resemble the rotund, elongated compositions favored by his teacher. By 1950, Wilson earned the John Hay Whitney Fellowship and moved to Mexico City. Another trial proof of this print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 06, 2022
JOHN WILSON (1922 - 2015) Mother and Child.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - 2015) Mother and Child. Lithograph on wove paper, 1952. 533x469 mm; 21x18 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 20/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by José Sanchez and published by the Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City. John Wilson's Mother and Child, a study for the 1952 mural, now destroyed, The Incident, is one of his most impressive lithographs. This is the larger and earlier of the two versions of this print. In addition to some differences in the drawing, in this version, the artist's signature and date are also added in the stone, lower left. Other impressions are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Swann Auction Galleries
Sep. 29, 2022
John Woodrow Wilson ''Child with Father'' 1968 Lithograph
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
John Woodrow Wilson (1922-2015 American) ''Child with Father'' 1968 Lithograph 10''x13.75'' Image. A scarce image of an African American child. Pencil signed, titled and numbered 38 of 54 edition lower margin. Sheet size 16''x20''. Full margins with publisher's blind stamp lower left corner. Slight mat line around image. Strong colors. Loose, unframed. There is an example of this print in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
MBA Seattle Auction LLC
Jun. 04, 2022
John Woodrow Wilson, 1922-2015, La Calle
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
John Woodrow Wilson 1922-2015 La Calle 1951, printed 1965 Offset Lithograph on thin wove paper 4-/14 x 7-1/4 inches, wide margins Signed and titled in pencil Example illustrated in, In the Spirit of Resistance, African-American Modernists and the Mexican Muralist School, 1996, pl. 88, p. 163.
Black Art Auction
May. 07, 2022
JOHN WILSON 'FATHER & CHILD' LITHOGRAPH SIGNED
Est: $600 - $800
John Woodrow Wilson (African-American, 1922-2015) lithograph titled 'Father and Child'. Pencil signed and dated 1970 lower right. Numbered 23/50 and titled lower left.
Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery
Mar. 31, 2022
JOHN WOODROW WILSON (1922 - 2015) Five Men.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
JOHN WOODROW WILSON (1922 - 2015) Five Men. Offset lithograph on wove paper, 2004. 368x622 mm; 14 1/2x24 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 14/56 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia. Provenance: collection of Anne & Allan Edmunds. Another impression is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Reflecting upon his social and racial justice based practice, Wilson depicts five anonymous men that seem to have witnessed something unimaginable just outside the viewer's range. The central figures are wide-eyed and in motion while the other men look upon the viewer. Consigned to support the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia and its legacy endowment campaign.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 04, 2021
John Woodrow Wilson, 1922-2015, Mother and Child
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
John Woodrow Wilson 1922-2015 Mother and Child 1952 lithograph on wove paper 21 5/8 x 18 7/8 inches signed, titled, dated and numbered 49/50
Black Art Auction
Oct. 07, 2021
JOHN WOODROW WILSON (1922 - 2015) Untitled (Portrait of a Young Woman).
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
JOHN WOODROW WILSON (1922 - 2015) Untitled (Portrait of a Young Woman). Black and sanguine conte crayon on cream wove paper, 1964. 445x340 mm; 17 1/2x13 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in crayon, lower right. Provenance: private collection, Massachusetts.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 07, 2021
JOHN WOODROW WILSON (1922 - 2015) Green Checked Table Cloth.
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
JOHN WOODROW WILSON (1922 - 2015) Green Checked Table Cloth. Tempera on cream wove paper, 1949. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed and dated in red ink, lower right recto. Titled in blue ink, lower left verso. Provenance; private collection, Massachusetts. This remarkable and very scarce work on paper is from John Wilson's time in Paris, and is unequivocally inspired by Fernand Léger. In 1947, John Wilson won the James William Paige Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and moved to Paris, where he worked in Fernand Léger's studio. Wilson adapted many of his mentor's modern techniques of abstracting forms, developed more modernist compositions, and added to the social and political consciousness of his art. After returning to the US in 1950, Wilson earned the John Hay Whitney Fellowship and moved to Mexico City.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 11, 2021
JOHN WOODROW WILSON (AFRICAN-AMERICAN, 1922-2015).
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Lithograph. "The Trial". 1951. Signed and dated lower right. Titled lower left. No. 3 from an edition of 30. From a Long Island, NY collection.
Clarke Auction Gallery
Oct. 03, 2020
John Wilson. "Urbanites," lithograph
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
John Woodrow Wilson. (American, 1922-2015). Lithograph, 1964, ed. AP, pencil signed and dated "John Wilson" lr, sight size: 12 3/4 x 15 1/2 in., framed.
Alex Cooper
Aug. 29, 2020
John Wilson. "Mother and Child," lithograph
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
John Woodrow Wilson. (American, 1922-2015). Lithograph, 1956, ed. AP, pencil signed and dated "John Wilson" lr, image size: 13 3/4 x 11 3/4 in., framed.
Alex Cooper
Aug. 29, 2020
John Wilson. "Urbanites," lithograph
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
John Woodrow Wilson. (American, 1922-2015). Lithograph, 1964, ed. AP, pencil signed and dated "John Wilson" lr, sight size: 12 3/4 x 15 1/2 in., framed.
Alex Cooper
Aug. 29, 2020
John Wilson. "Father and Child," lithograph
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
John Woodrow Wilson. (American, 1922-2015). Lithograph, 1965, ed. 19/50, pencil signed and dated "John Wilson" lr, sight size: 21 3/4 x 15 3/4 in., framed.
Alex Cooper
Aug. 29, 2020
John Wilson. "Father and Child," lithograph
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
John Woodrow Wilson. (American, 1922-2015). Lithograph, 1964, ed. 11/30, pencil signed and dated "John Wilson" lr, image size: 12 3/4 x 14 3/4 in., framed.
Alex Cooper
Apr. 26, 2020
John Wilson "A View with a Room" Signed! 19" X 30"
Est: $500 - $800
John Woodrow Wilson (19222015) was an American lithographer, sculptor, painter, muralist, and art teacher whose art was driven by the political climate of his time. Wilson was best known for his works portraying themes of social justice and equality. Expect to pay $500 and up in a gallery! Artist Name: John Wilson Medium: Giclee on canvas Year: 2001 Signature: Signed in pencil, lower left Image Size: 17 x 28 in. Edition: Edition of 195 in pencil, lower right Condition: Excellent. Nice new framing! 19" X 30"
Four Seasons Auction Gallery
Oct. 08, 2009
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) City Child.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) City Child. Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1965. 349x260mm; 13 3/4x10 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 11/35 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 08, 2009
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) Mother and Child.
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) Mother and Child. Lithograph, 1952. 545x507 mm; 21x18 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 43/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by José Sanchez at the Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City. Horizontal crease through image. A superb, richly-inked impression of this scarce print. John Wilson's Mother and Child, a study for the 1952 mural Incident in Teotihuacan, Mexico, is one of his most impressive lithographs, a tour-de-force drawing of contrast and volume. This is the larger and earlier of the two versions, and is the first known impression of this edition to come to auction. In addition to some differences in the drawing, in this version, the artist's signature and date are also added in the stone, lower left. Another impression is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 17, 2009
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) Martin Luther King, Jr.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) Martin Luther King, Jr. Soft ground and hard ground etching, and spit bite aquatint on chine-collé, 2002. 915x760 mm; 36x30 (sheet), full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 17/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by James Stroud, Center Street Studio, Milton Village, MA, with the blind stamp lower left. A superb impression of this large etching. Other impressions are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 17, 2009
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) Mother and Child.
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) Mother and Child. Lithograph, 1956. 353x305 mm; 14x12 inches, wide margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 53/54 in pencil, lower margin. A superb, richly-inked impression of this scarce print.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 17, 2009
JOHN WOODROW WILSON (1922 - ) Street Scene.
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
JOHN WOODROW WILSON (1922 - ) Street Scene. Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1947. 152x360 mm; 10x14 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 5/20 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression of this scarce print.
Swann Auction Galleries
Aug. 10, 2008
John Woodrow Wilson (American, b.1922),
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
John Woodrow Wilson (American, b.1922), "Campesinos", lithograph, 12" x 15 1/2" (sight), in frame 22 1/2" x 27 1/4", signed and dated LR, numbered 22/26 and titled LL, "Silvermine Guild of Artists" label. Good condition.
Kaminski Auctions
Feb. 19, 2008
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) Straphangers.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
JOHN WILSON (1922 - ) Straphangers. Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1947. 355x347 mm; 14x9 7/8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 8/20 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression of this scarce print. We have not found another impression of this print at auction in 20 years.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 06, 2007
JOHN W. WILSON (1922 - ) Untitled (Farm Boy).
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
JOHN W. WILSON (1922 - ) Untitled (Farm Boy). Charcoal on thin buff wove paper, 1944. 507x368 mm; 19 7/8x14 1/2 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Â©" in pencil, lower right. Repaired 2-inch v-shaped tear at the left side of the brim of the hat, edge tears, horizontal creases and losses at the upper left and lower corners. Provenance: Ex-collection Bob Blackburn, New York; private New York collection. John Wilson grew up in Roxbury, MA, and showed his substantial artistic talents early, when he was admitted as one of only three black students to the Boston Museum High School at the Museum of Fine Arts. While working on his bachelor''s degree at Tufts University, he applied to study with Mexican muralists whose work he had seen exhibited in the Fogg Museum. But as only available scholarships to Paris were avialable at the time, he was able to study with Fernand LÃ©ger for a year in Paris. In 1950 Wilson finally received a John Hay Whitney scholarship to Mexico, and like Charles White and Elizabeth Catlett before him, he enrolled in the La Esmeralda School in Mexico City. Wilson''s works are found in many museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, and the Clark Atlanta University Collection of African-American Art.
Swann Auction Galleries
Sep. 09, 1994
JOHN WILSON (AMERICAN, B. 1922) "STREET CAR SCENE"
Est: $300 - $500
1945. Signed and dated "John Wilson 1945" in pencil l.r., signed "Wilson" on the stone l.l., titled in pencil l.l. Lithograph on paper, image size 11 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (28.6 x 37.4 cm.), framed. CONDITION Good, mat toning, soiling to margin u.r., not examined out of frame. PROVENANCE The estate of Martha Ross, Brookline, Massachusetts.
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