AETN Presents: Charles Banks Wilson

This 30-minute film tells the story of an 88-year old Fayetteville man who awakes every morning to draw and paint. Charles Banks Wilson earliest days are chronicled in this documentary showing film footage from the 1950s of Wilson in his old studio in Miami, Oklahoma painting the pureblood Native Americans. Wilson admits to having painted approximately 150 different tribes of Native Americans that trace their ancestry to a single tribe. The collection of original art was donated to the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa in honor of Wilsons promise to his Native American models that he would not sell their images. His mutual respect and admiration for their culture is evident in his drawings and paintings that are beautifully illustrated in the program.

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