Mildred Wohl (American/New Orleans, 1906-1977)

A native New Orleanian, Mildred Wohl (1906-1977) studied at the Newcomb Art School at Tulane University. She had her first solo exhibition at the Sky Club in 1959 followed by a show at Naomi Marshall’s Downtown Gallery in 1961.  She joined the Orleans Gallery in 1966 and was a member of the artist cooperative until it closed in early 1973.  The Orleans Gallery was the center of the contemporary art world during it’s day.  In addition to exhibiting the work of it’s member artists, it showed the work of national and internationally known artists.  Mildred Wohl was one of the most successful artists to exhibit at the Orleans Gallery. 

            Often best known as Ida Kohlmeyer’s sister, Mildred Wohl had an Abstract Expressionist visual vocabulary and unique palette all her own.  While Kohlmeyer’s work becomes grounded in a field of white, Wohl embraces black throughout her paintings stating:

“I can say that I am obsessed with black because it is all color, and I use it to express the mysteries. Behind that black are secret places, secret things. Their existence is shown by the exhalation of color that sometimes tears through and sometimes is merely a nimbus around the darkness. But no matter how remote, the arcana are always there, good and hopeful in a Stygian world.”

Amanda Winstead Fine Art is pleased to announce a scholarly biography on Mildred Wohl is currently in preparation. We invite your inquiry regarding this work currently on offer.

Solo Shows

1977
Solo Exhibition, Fordham University Library Gallery, Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, USA

1975
Solo Exhibition, Circle Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

1973
Solo Exhibition, Vincent Mann Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

1972
Solo Exhibition, Orleans Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

1971
Solo Exhibition, Orleans Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

1970
Free Fall Transparables, Orleans Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

1969
Solo Exhibition, Orleans Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

1968
Cutouts, Orleans Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA
Solo Exhibition, Orleans Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

1967
Solo Exhibition, Orleans Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

1966
Solo Exhibition, BODLEY Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Solo Exhibition, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX, USA
Solo Exhibition, Orleans Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

1964
Solo Exhibition, The Houston Galleries, Houston, TX, USA

1963
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Numero, Florence, Italy

1962
Solo Show, New Vision Centre Gallery, London, UK

1961
Sarasota Art Association, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, USA
Solo Show, Downtown Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

1958
Solo Show, Hilton Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

Group Shows

2018
The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, USA

1963
Group Exhibition, Brandeis Art Invitational, New Orleans, LA, USA
Group Exhibition, Midland Group, London, UK
Group Exhibition, Leeds College, Leeds, UK
Artists of Southeast & Texas Annual, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA

1962
Group Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Group Exhibition, Juried Arts, Tyler, TX, USA

1961
Group Exhibition, Opera Association, New Orleans, LA, USA
Group Exhibition, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, TX, USA

1960
Group Exhibition, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, USA
Group Exhibition, Spring Fiesta Art Show, New Orleans

Awards

1962    First Prize in Louisiana State Annual, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1963    Purchase Award in Spring Hill College Exhibit, Mobile, Alabama

1963    Honorable Mention in National Oil Panting Exhibition, Mississippi Arts Association, Jackson Mississippi

1963    Included in “Prize Winning Painters of the Year” Vol. III

1965    Honorable Mention, Mint Museum Annual, Charlotte, North Carolina

1965    The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida

1966    Top Prize, Edgewater Plaza, Biloxi Mississippi

1966    Purchase Award, Artists of the Southeastern & Texas Exhibition

1966    Cash Away Biloxi Municipal Art Gallery, Biloxi Mississippi

1966    Honorable Mention, Biloxi Municipal Art gallery

1966    $100 Award, Louisiana Art Commission Annual, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1967    Included in “Prize Winning Paintings” for Black Finds It’s Way to the Secret Places Delgado Museum

1967    Honorable Mention “Crossing It In Black” – Juried Arts National Exhibition, Tyler, Texas

1967    $100 Award “Burning Black” – 4th Annual Juried Art Competition, Masur Museum in Monroe, Louisiana

1968    Honorable Mention, Juried Arts National Exhibition, Tyler, Texas

1973    $150 Prize at Shreveport Art Guild and Shreveport Art Club, Shreveport, Louisiana