Artist Shana D. Wilson
Title Untitled - Grece Ghanem
Media acrylic on canvas
Size 60 x 40 in. / 152.4 x 101.6 cm.
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
Notes
signed verso; unframed
Provenance
purchased directly from the artist; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Shana D. Wilson ~ [b.1966] Canadian
Wilson graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1988 and worked for over a decade in various corporate positions. She left the corporate world and started a design business when she was a young mother and only gradually discovered her deep love of artistic expression. Two of her portraits have graced the cover of Time magazine; Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Jackie Kennedy.[ Time Magazine and Fine Art America]. Wilson was also commissioned by The Evening Standard in London, UK to paint a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in commemoration of her Jubilee in 2022.
For more examples of work see artist's website at Shana Wilson and Peter Robertson Gallery; for an article about the Ginsburg portrait see CBC; see additional articles at Chapter Fifty and University of Alberta; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website at Artists in Canada