Corporate Collections
Anheuser Busch Corporation, Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO
Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Dallas, TX
AT&T, Kansas City, MO
Cookies, Cookies, and More, St. Louis, MO
East Bank Neon, Inc.
First National Bank, Columbia, MO
Mercantile Bank, St. Louis, MO (now US Bank)
Morriss Holdings, L.L.C., St. Louis, MO
Nabisco Brands Corporation, Whippany, NJ
Nations’ Bank, St. Louis, MO
Novus International, Inc., St. Louis, MO
Prudential Insurance Coporation, Newark, NJ
Seven Up Corporation, Chicago, IL
Standard Oil Corporation, Chicago, IL
Stone Oil Corporation, Cincinnati, OH
Tom’s Bar and Grill, St. Louis, MO
Public Collections
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Belleville Area College, Belleville, IL
City Collection, Lawton, OK
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN
Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
La Jolla Art Collection, La Jolla, CA
Lee Hecht Harrison, St. Louis, MO
Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
New Orleans Art Council, New Orleans, LA
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Starbucks, Marriott Hotel, St. Louis, MO
The Dog Museum, New York, New York
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Bibliography
| 2002 | Jost, Paul E., “’Home Grown,’ Atrium Gallery,” Art St. Louis, Vol. 15, No. 1 Daniel, Jeff, “’Home Grown’ Exhibit Displays Varied Roots,” St. Louis Post- Dipatch, July 7. 2002. |
| 2000 | Schroeder, Ivy, The Riverfront Times, “Realism Today”, August 8-15, 2000 |
| 1996 | Plattner, Stuart, High Art Down Home. The University of Chicago Press. |
| 1995 | Bellos, Alexandra, “Common Denominator,” The Riverfront Times, May 3 Shepley, Carol, “A Show of Color,” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 4 |
| 1993 | Karvè, Anita, “WILKERSON,” The Riverfront Times, March 24, 1993. |
| 1992 | Shepley, Carol, “Comparison of Work–Then and Now,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 7, 1992. Lloyd, Kim, “Wilkerson’s Still Life Art Proves Prosaic and Poetic,” West End World, December 17, 1992. Shepley, Carol, “Wilkerson Mixes Seurat…With Pop,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 28, 1992. |
| 1990 | Duffy, Robert, “Art Quilts Delight the Eye While Stirring the Mind,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 2, 1990. |
| 1987 | Kasperek, Rita, Review, St. Louis Magazine, January 1987. Shapiro, Sandy, Review, St. Louis Artists Coalition, Volume 2, 1987. O’Connell, Patsy, Review, West End World, November 1987. Review, Fine Arts-Washington University, November 1987. |
| 1983 | Silver, Beverly, Review, St. Louis Weekly, June 1, 1983. Yonker, William, Review, New Art Examiner, Summer 1983. |
| 1980 | ARTnews, May 1980. |
| 1976 | Art International, Summer 1976. |
Exhibitions
One-Person Exhibitions
| 2023 | “Jerry O. Wilkerson”, Dragon Crab and Turtle, St. Louis, MO |
| 2010 | “Flowers”, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 2008 | “Discerning Palate” Jerry O. Wilkerson Retrospective, Saint Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO |
| 2007 | “Jerry Wilkerson, In Memoriam, 1943-2007” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 2002 | “Feast,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 2001 | Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN |
| 2000 | Featured Artist during Laumeier Sculpture Park’s Art Fair 2000, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO |
| 1999 | “Art Historical Perspectives,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1997 | “Recent Still Lifes,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1995 | “New Work,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1992/93 | “Past Tense,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1991 | Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, MO Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 1990 | O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY Urban Artware Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC Randall Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1988 | Greenberg Gallery Annex, St. Louis, MO |
| 1985 | Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1984 | Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS Carol Shapiro Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1983 | Modern Art Museum of Caste, S. Pietro Terme, Italy Carol Shapiro Gallery, St. Louis, MO O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1981 | University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA Carol Shapiro Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1980 | Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1979 | St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO |
| 1978 | Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS Belleville Area College, Belleville, IL |
| 1977 | Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS Maryville College, St. Louis, MO Johnson-Whitey Gallery, New Orleans, MO |
| 1976 | Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, IL Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS |
| 1975 | Terry Moore Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1972 | Messing Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1971 | Gallery of Loretto Hilton, St. Louis, MO |
Group Exhibitions
| 2016 | “The Art of Craft”, St. Louis, MO “Trenta Fiori”, Genell Miller Studio, St. Louis, MO |
| 2010 | “2007 St. Louis Painters Invitational,” Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO |
| 2006 | “Paper, Paper”, at Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 2005 | “Stillness,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Watercolor U.S.A. 2005,” Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO |
| 2004 | “St. Louis Print and Drawing Invitational,” Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO |
| 2003 | “Atrium at the Plaza,” St. Louis, MO |
| 2002 | “Scale It,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO “As Real As It Gets: Super Realism and Photo-Realism from the Permanent Collection and Private Collections,” Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ “Home Grown,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Watercolor U.S.A. 2002,” Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO |
| 2000 | “Watercolor U.S.A. 2000,” Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO “Recycled Paper III,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Realism Today,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO “The Maecenas and the Bauhaus in St. Louis 1963-2000,” Mercantile/Firstar Bank Art Collection, The Sheldon Galleries, St. Louis, MO |
| 1999 | “To Nourish and to Nurture,” St. Paul Companies, Minneapolis, MN “Recycled Paper II,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Watercolor USA,” Springfield, MO |
| 1998 | “Still-Lifes,” Lyons-Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL “Recycled Paper,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Who?,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1997 | “Watercolor, U.S.A.,” Springfield, MO “Inspired by Nabisco,” East Hanover, NJ |
| 1996 | “The 46th Annual Quad-State Juried Art Exhibition,” Quincy, IL “Watercolor U.S.A.,” Springfield, MO Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Arts And Science, Evansville, IN |
| 1994 | “Four Still-Life Painters,” O.K. Harris, New York, NY “Creators Collect,” Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis, MO “St. Louis Art Gallery Showcase,” Florissant Vallery Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1993 | “Dealer’s Choice,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO “A Feast for the Eyes,” Nabisco Gallery, East Hanover, NJ “Realism Today,” Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN “Food Art,” Redding Museum Of Art and History, Redding, CA “Watercolor U.S.A. 1993,” Springfield, MO 80th Annual Sculpture and Fine Arts Exhibition, St. Louis Artist’s Guild, St.Louis, MO |
| 1992 | “St. Louis Collects,” St. Louis Dog Museum, St. Louis, MO Honor Award Exhibition, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO “Departures and Connections,” Messing Gallery, St. Louis, MO “10th Annual Realism Today,” Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN (Bristol-Myers Squibb Purchase Prize Award) 10th Annual River Market Regional Exhibition, Kansas City, MO “Hubs & Hoods,” The Gallery at COCA, St. Louis, MO 9th Annual Art in the Woods, Overland Park, KS Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 1991 | “5th Anniversary Show,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Lives Still and Otherwise,” Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA “Watercolor U.S.A. 1991,” Springfield, MO (Honor Society Purchase Award) “Flight of Imagination/Quilt As Art,” The Artworks at Donneckers, Ephrata, PA “Art St. Louis VII,” St. Louis, MO (Award Winner) “44th Annual Mid-States Art Exhibition,” Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN |
| 1990 | “Flight of Imagination/Quilt as Art,” The Artworks at Donneckers, Ephrata, PA “Art in Transit,” St. Louis, MO |
| 1989 | “20th Anniversary Show,” Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 1988 | Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 1987 | “Young Collectors,” Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO “Works on Paper,” Greenburg Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Living at Emden,” Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, MO |
| 1986 | “Feast for the Eye,” Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA “Art in St. Louis II,” St. Louis, MO |
| 1985 | “Prints 85,” Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO “On Paper,” Greenburg Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Works on Paper,” Morgan Gallery, Kansis City, MO “Artists for Green Peace,” St. Louis, MO “The Channel 9 Art Affair,” St. Louis, MO O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY Artists Holiday Christmas Trees, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO |
| 1984 | “35 Artists,” Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO “Jim Morgan Memorial Exhibition,” Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama “Mid Four,” Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO |
| 1983 | “20th Anniversary Show,” Mark Twain Bancshares, St. Louis, MO “20/20/20,” University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO Morgan Gallery Inaugural Show, Kansas City, MO and University of Wisconsin, Eau Clair, WI “Jim Morgan Memorial Exhibition,” Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO “Realism Today,” Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN “Summer Group Show,” Carol Shapiro Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Previews,” Messing Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1982 | Myers Fine Arts Gallery, New York State University College, Plattsburgh, NY O.K. Harris Gallery West, Scottsdale, AZ “Twenty-One Artists,” Carol Shapiro Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1981 | The Gallery Leroy Collins, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL “St. Louis Editions,” Missouri Arts and Humanities Commission: National Endowment for the Arts, St. Louis, MO “The Morgan Collection,” Clara Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY |
| 1979 | “Mid-Four,” Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO “Small is Beautiful,” Freedman Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA “10th Anniversary Show,” Morgan Art Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS |
| 1977 | “Appalachian National Competition III,” Boone, NC LaGrange National Competition, LaGrange, GA “10th Annual Print, Drawing, and Craft Exhbition,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR “Inaugural Art Exhibition,” St. Louis Gateway Convention Center, St. Louis, MO North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC “Five St. Louis Artistis,” Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, MO |
| 1976 | Emden Gallery, St. Louis, MO Terry Moore Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Wilkerson and Johnson,” Johnson-Whitty Gallery, New Orleans, LA Monique Knowlton Gallery, St. Louis, MO Loyola University, New Orleans, LA “7 for 76,” Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL “Wilkerson and Stark,” Emden Gallery, St. Louis, MO “4 plus 4,” Springfield Art Association, Springfield, MO |
| 1975 | Emden Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Colorado National Print Drawing Show II,” University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (Purchase Prize) “Wilkerson and Worley,” Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL |
| 1974 | Emden Gallery, St. Louis, MO “44th Annual Art Exhibition,” Springfield, MO “Serigraph Invitational,” St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis, MO |
| 1972 | “Mid-America IV,” St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO and Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, MO “Artists for McGovern,” St. Louis, MO |