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Donald Roller Wilson

Donald Roller Wilson
JIMMY HAD SHORTED 10,000 SHARES OF (BNTS), BRENDA'S NUTS...BRENDA'S NUT FARM, JUST OUTSIDE, 2000/5
Oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
Framed: 19 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches

Donald Roller Wilson

Donald Roller Wilson
ON THE DAY OF DAYS..., 1993
Oil on canvas in artist’s frame
7 x 13 inches
Framed: 11 x 17 inches

Donald Roller Wilson

Donald Roller Wilson
MRS. JENKINS EAR GOT CAUGHT..., JIMMY'S OLD BOTTLE HAD BLOWN.., MRS. JENKINS MATCH FELL.., 1987
Oil on canvas in artist’s frame
Each framed: 9 x 11 inches

Donald Roller Wilson

Donald Roller Wilson
COOKIE, BUT SEEN AS JOE (SIGNAL), 2002
Oil on canvas in artist’s frame accompanied by two framed text panels
8 x 13 inches
Framed: 16 x 30 inches

Donald Roller Wilson

Donald Roller Wilson
Cookie Ran From Them, 1989
Oil on canvas in artist’s frame
8 x 16 inches

Donald Roller Wilson

Donald Roller Wilson
The Seldom Seen Joanne: Naughty Betty and Mort, 2008
Oil on canvas in artist's frame
18 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
Framed: 24 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 2 5/8 inches

Donald Roller Wilson

Donald Roller Wilson
JANUARY FIRST, AND NEAR TO MIDNIGHT...,JANUARY SECOND, AND NEAR LUNCHTIME...,, 1989
Oil on canvas in artist’s frame, diptych
Each: 10 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Each Framed: 11 x 13 inches

Donald Roller Wilson

Donald Roller Wilson
PATRICIA’S STRUGGLE TO GET TO THE PIANO DURING THE HIGH WINDS WHICH WHIPPED UP IN MRS. JENKINS’ HALLWAY: AND JUST PRIOR TO THE PERFORMANCE OF HER PIECE FOR PIECE FOR THE TALENT PORTION OF MISS DOG AMERICA, 1988
Oil on canvas in artist's frame
30 x 28 inches
Framed: 37 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches

Biography

Donald Roller Wilson was born in Houston, Texas and is currently lives and works in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Roller Wilson is a Gothic storyteller with the phenomenal technique and precision of an old master, animating his paintings with finely wrought clothed chimpanzees, dogs, and cats, wooden matches, dill pickles, asparagus stalks, olives, and cigarette butts. He creates characters like Cookie the Baby Orangutan, Jane the Pug Girl, Jack the Jack Russell "Terror," Loretta the Actress Cat, Miss Dog America, and Patricia the Seeing Eye Dog of Houston. Each spring from the artist's hyper-vivid imagination into lengthy caption fantasies and onto canvases that require an enormous amount of time to complete, all painted in vivid detail, reminiscent of the 16th century Dutch masters. Roller Wilson's recognizable works hang in the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL; Whitney Museum, New York, New York; Bank of America, San Francisco, CA; and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden- Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.