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Jane Wilson (1924-2015) Mirrored Salmon image 1
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Lot 174

Jane Wilson
(1924-2015)
Mirrored Salmon

26 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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Jane Wilson (1924-2015)

Mirrored Salmon
titled (on the turnover); identified on a label from Graham Gallery, New York, and with various auction labels (affixed to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
30 x 21 in. (76.2 x 53.3 cm)
Painted in 1972.

Footnotes

Provenance
Christie's, New York, Contemporary Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, November 14, 1989, lot 476.

N.B.
Jane Wilson grew up on a farm in Seymour, Iowa, and studied painting and art history at the University of Iowa. During this time she her professors made conscious efforts to expose the students to the burgeoning Abstract Expressionist movement in the U.S., although throughout Wilson's career she retained what she described as "an uncontrollable allegiance to subject matter, and to landscape in particular" (Jane Wilson, interview with Mimi Thompson in "Profiles and Positions: Jane Wilson," Bomb 37, Fall 1991). In 1949, after teaching art history at the University of Iowa for two years, Wilson moved to New York City, where she worked as a fashion model while also pursuing her painting.

Wilson quickly became a prominent fixture in the New York art scene of the time. In 1957 she was featured in Life magazine as one of five leading young female painters - alongside Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler - and she also appeared in articles in Glamour and Coronet. Andy Warhol commissioned her to paint his portrait in 1960 (Andy and Lilacs), and she was depicted in Alice Neel's 1970 painting The Family and Mary Beth Edelson's 1972 collage Some Living American Women Artists. Her paintings are held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others.

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