Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson (June 23, 1913 – November 9, 2001) was an American artist known for his early, expressionistic paintings from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s and his subsequent non-objective paintings, a personal synthesis of abstract expressionism and constructivism. who had emigrated from the Ukrainian city of Kyiv. His work—expressionistically rendered Biblical parables more closely akin to the German expressionists than to the prevailing social realists—was much admired by the critics for its sincerity and vehement social protest. Widely exhibited, with more than 30 solo exhibitions, Montclair State University, in Montclair, New Jersey, permanently houses his art estate and papers. A portion of his papers is also included in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art