10 Facts About Winslow Wilson

Winslow Wilson is widely quoted from his Manifesto For Post-Modern Art, published in 1951, under the name Pico Miran.

Winslow Wilson was born in Brady, Texas in 1892, one of five sons of Horace and Stella Winslow Wilson.

In New York, Winslow Wilson was a contributor to The Dial along with many influential literary persons of the time.

Winslow Wilson was active in the New York, NY, Lime Rock, CT, Newport, RI, Gloucester, MA, and Rockport, MA art scenes between the 1930s and 1972.

Wilson painted post-modern artwork utilizing the name Pico Miran in his Gloucester, Massachusetts studio, taught portraiture at the Rockport Art Association in Rockport, Massachusetts under the name Winslow Wilson, and painted seascapes as Winslow Wilson in his Rockport, Massachusetts studio.

Wilson was strongly influenced by his time at Harvard and World War I In addition to a tragic event in Boston which resulted in the death of one of Wilson's friends in 1912, there is evidence that Wilson encountered trauma during World War I According to family sources, Wilson was an Army Air Force gunner who parachuted from his plane during the War and was stranded hanging in a tree for several days before being rescued.

Understanding that Winslow Wilson eschewed family relationships while fully immersing himself as a bit of an artistic recluse, provides an insight into the life of this artist.

Winslow Wilson's seascapes were exhibited at Vose Gallery in Boston.

Winslow Wilson was a member of the Rockport Art Association from 1946 through 1972, and for many of those years he taught portraiture.

Winslow Wilson's portraits have included local Gloucester residents and friends.