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 Source References. Artgalny.com