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http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/guide/_w2.htm#jrg496 PHOTOGRAPH OF A CHARLES BANKS WILSON DRAWING OF QUAPAWS
The title is "Arkansea Indian (Quapaw) Circa 1700 with Calumets." The original was a pencil drawing that shows model Ed Quapaw, a three-quarter blood Quapaw with a mixture of Peoria and Shawnee, holding two feather-decorated pipes. The subject appears with the body decoration, hairdress, and other decorations of a seventeenth-century Quapaw. Accompanying the photographs is a newspaper clipping about Banks, the Quapaw, and the drawing.
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Charles Banks Wilson is an American Artist. Wilson was born in Arkansas in 1918, his family eventually moving to Miami Oklahoma where he spent his childhood.
A painter, printmaker, teacher, lecturer, historian, magazine and book illustrator, Wilson's work has been shown in over 200 exhibitions in the United States and across the globe.
Permanent collections of Wilson's work are housed in some of the most renowned museums and art galleries in the world. These include New York's Metropolitan Museum, Washington's Library of Congress, The Corcoran Gallery, Oklahoma State Capital, and the Smithsonian.
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Wilson enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1936 to study painting, watercolor and lithography. He obtained an apprenticeship as an illustrator at the Chicago Tribune, and contributed to a folio for the American Art Association. Many of Wilson’s works also hang in the Oklahoma State Capitol, including life-size portraits of Will Rogers, Sequoyah, Carl Albert and Senator Robert Kerr. Four other murals depicting Oklahoma history also hang under the Capitol dome.
In addition to being the author and editor of a standard work on the Indian Tribes of Eastern Oklahoma, he is also the illustrator of 22 books and has contribed illustrations to many more.
School children in Oklahoma studied from a history textbook that contaned over 50 of his drawings. Other works include such prize-winning books as the classic Treasure Island, Company of Adventurers, Henry's Lincoln, and the late J. Frank Dobie's personal favorite, Mustangs. Writers have said that the paintings by Charles Banks Wilson breathe the spirit of the southwest. Wilson's mural "The Trapper's Bride", commissioned by the late John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in 1995, ranks among the finest records of the far west's fur trade.
Besides the Oklahoma Press Association's portrait of Will Rogers, Wilson also did the life portrait of Thomas Gilcrease, who established Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum. (This museum owned 55 works by the artist until David W. Hearn, Jr., purchased 26 lithographs in 1995). His famous sitters include U.S. House Speaker Carl Albert, whose portrait is the first to hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., prior to permanent installation in the U.S. Capitol Speaker's Gallery. Four mural sized portraits of Will Rogers, the Indian Sequoyah, U.S. Senator Robert Kerr, and athlete Jim Thorpe are viewed annually by more than one million visitors at the Oklahoma Capital Rotunda. The Oklahoma painter is best known for his pictures of contemporary Indian life, a project which has engaged him since his early thirties. The "Ten Little Indians" portfolio created by Wilson has been reproduced in every country in the world.
Honored by the U.S. State Department as well as the International Institute of Arts and Letters in Geneva, Charles Banks Wilson received the first Governor's Art Award and the D.S.C. (Distinguished Service Citation ) from the University of Oklahoma. Wilson is honored in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and is the recipient of the Western Heritage award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
The artist created the designs for "The First American Series", basalt medallions depicting famous Indian chiefs, produced by Josiah Wedgewood and Sons, Inc., England. His major undertaking has been the murals totaling 110 feet in length for the Oklahoma Capitol Rotunda presenting the state's discovery, frontier trade, Indian immigration, settlement, and overall history
Wilson established the Art Department at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and chaired the department for 15 years. The Charles Banks Wilson Scholarship has funded the education of 20 young artists who have wanted to study on the NEO campus over the past 15 years.
Wilson is a Fellow of the International Institution of Arts and Letters, a member of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arkansas Arts Council. He has also been awarded the Oklahoma Governor’s Art Award and was the focus of the documentary ‘Portrait of an American Artist.’ On May 9 2007 “Charles Banks Wilson Day”was confirmed by the Oklahoma House of Representatives and the Oklahoma State Senate
The NEO Foundation plans to build the Charles Banks Wilson Art Gallery at NEO as a way to honor his contributions to the college. The 15,000 square-foot space will include a student gallery, classrooms, studio space, computer-graphic design studio and faculty offices.
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http://www.neoam.cc.ok.us/~info/press%20releases/2007/may/043007charles_banks_wilson_day.pdf http://www.harcogallery.com/wilson_c.html http://www.arts.ok.gov/capitolart/permart/paintings/wilson/sequoyah.html http://libinfo.uark.edu/info/artchive/wilson/default.asp http://paramourfinearts.com/list_works.asp?id=184 http://www.aetn.org/charlesbankswilson/ http://www.janajae.com/gallerysouthwest/wilson.htm http://www.plakainc.com/wilsonbio.html http://www.willrogers.com/store/art/art3793.html
