Frank Avray Wilson British, 1914-2009
During his varied career, Avray Wilson was also a lecturer and author, his works including ‘Art as Understanding' and 'Art as Revelation'. Avray Wilson was a visionary in his belief that humans suffer from disintegration at all levels: physical, psychological, social and ecological. Thus, he pleaded for an urgent search for wholeness in which the integrating powers of the arts could be used beneficially.
Avray Wilson's paintings are present in the following museums: British Museum, London; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA; Cleveland Museum of Modern Art, Ohio, USA; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester; Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, Northampton; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton; Toledo Art Gallery, Ohio, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the Artist; Private collection, London.
Exhibitions
2016, Frank Avray Wilson: British Tachist, Whitford Fine Art, London.Literature
FERMON, An Jo. Frank Avray Wilson: British Tachist. London, 2016, pl. 16, p. 49, ill.