Additional Works
Object Labels:
Untitled, n.d.
ink on paper, two sheets
Julie Wilson Shiver collection, Owings Mills, Md.
Untitled, n.d.
ink on paper
Patricia and Craig Wilson ’74, MA ’76 collection, Latham, N.Y.
In these three drawings, Wilson explores themes of lynching. As the Equal Justice Initiative has written, “racial terror lynching was a tool used to enforce Jim Crow laws and racial segregation – a tactic for maintaining racial control by victimizing the entire African American community, not merely punishment of an alleged perpetrator for a crime.” Black artists had, since the early 20th century, turned to such troubling imagery as a means to protest and grieve the suffering and death imposed by a brutally enforced regime of white supremacy. Wilson’s experiences in the American South and his work with the civil rights movement had brought him face-to-face with racism and the violence meted out to those who would end the rule of Jim Crow. The pendulous bodies he pictured here, each suspended at the end of a rope, ground his existentialist imagery of falling bodies in the social experience of racial terror.
Seven Seals of Silence, 1969
granite and bronze
Kennedy Park, Binghamton, N.Y.
In 1966, the Sun-Bulletin newspaper commissioned Ed Wilson to design a memorial monument to President John F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated three years earlier. For this, his first public commission, Wilson designed an 11-foot-tall, triangular granite obelisk that contained seven bronze plaques, the Seven Seals of Silence. Each plaque represents an aspect of what he called “the evils of noninvolvement of man in life.”
Falling Man, 1973
bronze
Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, N.Y., gift of the artist to the University in 1978, transferred to Binghamton University Art Museum 2019.11
Ephemera Cases:
James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son
Beacon Press, Third printing 1961
Patricia and Craig Wilson ’74, MA ’76, Latham, N.Y.
James Baldwin
Nobody Knows my Name: More Notes of a Native Son
The Dial Press, Second printing
1961 Patricia and Craig Wilson ’74, MA ’76, Latham, N.Y.
Exhibition Invitation to Ed Wilson: Sculpture, 1966
Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections and University Archives, Binghamton, N.Y.
Exhibition catalog for Ed Wilson: Sculpture, 1966
Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections and University Archives, Binghamton, N.Y.
Installation photographs from Ed Wilson: Sculpture, 1966
Binghamton University Art Museum archives, Binghamton, N.Y.
Floyd McKissick
3/5 of a Man
The Macmillan Company, First printing 1969
Patricia and Craig Wilson ’74, MA ’76, Latham, N.Y.
Dedication of the Memorial to President John F. Kennedy, 1969
Binghamton University Art Museum archives, Binghamton, N.Y.
Notebook kept by Ed Wilson during his summer in Harlem, 1968
Julie Wilson Shiver, Owings Mills, Md.
Ed Wilson’s Faculty Fellowship Application for Summer in Harlem, 1968
Ronald Gonzalez, Johnson City, N.Y.