His social realism style was well suited to the difficult subjects, including racism and other forms of oppression, he took on in his art. John Wilson, "Black Despair" (1945), oil on Masonite; Private ...

John Wilson had a deep desire to be known. His aspiration was not of the clout-chasing, fame-hungry sort, but a drive to be understood, to have his culture recognized, to break free of stereotype and ...

My earliest memory of John Wilson comes from 400 East 11th St., the longtime home of the Chattanooga News Free Press. It was the heyday of the mid ‘90s, when two different daily papers hit the streets ...