Red Shack

1   Still Life with Horn
2   Still Life with Vegetables
3   Pier with Skull
4   Cooking Fish
5   Polly
6   Cocktail Time
7   Horse and Red Sun
8   Kerosene Lamp
9   Girl with Vase
10 Snapper
11 Red Arrow, Seated Woman
12 Abstract Guitar
13 Houses on Hillside
14 Village Street, Mexico
15 Zaza
16 Young Man in Cap
17 Boat and Rocks
18 Three Boats
19 Café - Mexico II
20 Chair
21 Red Dress
22 Red Sign
23 Doorway
24 Seated Girl
25 Red Kerchief
26 Shoemaker’s Shop
27 Red Shack
28 In the Studio
29 Boy with Sailor Hat
30 Game with a Ball
31 Cyclist
32 Figure
33 Butterflies
34 Scythe
35 Through the Arch
36 Mexican Street

gouache 5 x 8
gouache 41⁄2 x 7
gouache 10 x 12
gouache 10 x 12
serigraph 11 x 16
serigraph 91⁄2 x 13
serigraph 91⁄2 x 131⁄2
serigraph 201⁄2 x 12
acrylic 19 x 27
acrylic 24 x 30
acrylic 19 x 23
acrylic 30 x 36
acrylic 30 x 24
acrylic 30 x 24
acrylic 22 x 30
acrylic 18 x 24
acrylic 16 x 24
acrylic 24 x 36
acrylic 36 x 30
acrylic 24 x 30
acrylic 30 x 40
acrylic 24 x 30
acrylic 36 x 24
acrylic 33 x 30
acrylic 26 x 20
acrylic 24 x 30
acrylic 30 x 48
acrylic 24 x 36
acrylic 20 x 16
oil 24 x 36
oil 30 x 24
oil 24 x 36
oil 30 x 36
acrylic 24 x 30
acrylic 30 x 36
acrylic 26 x 38

1934
1934
c. 1946
c. 1946





c. 1975

1962

1974
c. 1968


1969

1977
c. 1975
c. 1974
c. 1969


c. 1980
c. 1980


c. 1956
c. 1958
c. 1958
c. 1952

During the long days of the illness that preceded Reginald Wilson’s death in 1993, he and his wife decided that all of his work still in their possession should go to the Woodstock School of Art. The extraordinary gift, now in the school’s safekeeping, includes approximately 200 works of art from which the present exhibition was selected.

Reginald Wilson was born in 1909 in the small town of Butler, Ohio. Determined from boyhood to be an artist, he arrived at the Art Students League of New York when he was twenty. He studied with John Stuart Currie, among others, meanwhile making a living with odd jobs like that of office boy or night watchman. He was an easel painter in the Federal Art Project and served for three years as an airplane mechanic in the US Army Air Force during World War II. He and the artist Carolyn Haeberlin were married in 1942, moving in 1945 to where they made their home in a 200-year-old farmhouse.

Wilson’s paintings and works in other media were exhibited widely beginning in the 1940’s, in New York City and in major museums and universities across the country. In Woodstock he showed at a number of galleries including that of the Woodstock Artists Association where he won the 1973 Sally Jacobs-Phoebe Towbin Award.