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Charles Banks Wilson
American, 1918-2013
Birth PlaceSpringdale, Arkansas, United States, North America
Place ActiveMiami, Oklahoma, United States, North America
Death PlaceRogers, Arkansas, United States, North America
Biographywas an American artist. Wilson was born in Springdale, Arkansas in 1918, his family eventually moving to Miami, Oklahoma, where he spent his childhood. A painter, printmaker, teacher, lecturer, historian, magazine and book illustrator, Wilson's work has been shown in over 200 exhibitions in the United States and across the globe.Wilson enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1937 to study painting, watercolor and lithography. He obtained an apprenticeship as an illustrator at the Chicago Tribune, and contributed to a folio for the American Art Association. Many of Wilson’s works hang in the Oklahoma State Capitol including life-size portraits of Will Rogers, Sequoyah, Carl Albert and Senator Robert Kerr. Four other murals depicting Oklahoma history also hang under the Capitol dome.
In addition to being the author and editor of a standard work on the Indian Tribes of Eastern Oklahoma, he is also the illustrator of 22 books and has contributed illustrations to many more.
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Citizen Band Potawatomi/Muscogee (Creek), 1912-1989
