Background
He was born in Houston, Texas and is based in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Donald Wilson
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He was educated at Wichita State University.
Career
He paints in oils in very polished realism using the same techniques of the Old Masters. According to the New York Times, "Donald Roller Wilson"s goofy, hallucinogenic, Old Master-style painting of monkeys, dogs and cats dressed up in antique costumes may be kitsch, but it"s high-quality kitsch, like good beach reading." Some of the characters he has created include Cookie the Baby Orangutan, Jane the Pug Girl, Jack the Jack Russell “Terror,” Loretta the Actress Cat, Mission Dog America, and Patricia the Seeing Eye Dog of Houston. Some of his works can be seen in the Brooklyn Museum.
Chicago Art Institute.
Whitney Museum; Bank of America in San Francisco, California. Coe Kerr Gallery, New York City.
And Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, as well as many other galleries. The majority of his work is in the hands of private collectors.
He produced the cover art for Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger (1984), Francesco Zappa (1984) and Them Or Us (1984).
His main gallery at present is the John Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco, and his paintings may be collected through Peter Sahlman in New New York
Personality
He was also Frank Zappa"s visual coordinator during the 1980s and 1990s.
