Joseph Wolins
# Joseph Wolins

Joseph Wolins (born Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1915, died 1999, New York City) was an American painter whose influences included Piero della Francesca, Mantegna and Giotto. He studied at the National Academy of Design between 1935 and 1941 with Leon Kroll 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 and the Butler Institute of American Art.

## 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, 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 Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, Texas

## 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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