Claude Wilkinson's paintings have been featured in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, including the Paterson Museum in New Jersey, Greater Memphis Arts Council of Tenn., Meridian Museum of Art in Meridian, Ms ; Porter Troupe Gallery in San Diego, California, and the Tenn Valley Art Center in Tuscumbia,Al.

In addition to being in a number of private collections around the country, his art is also in the permanent collections of Cottonlandia Museum and Deposit Guaranty Bank. He's been included in Who's Who of the South, in America , and in the world. Also a literary artist and hailed as "the state's premier poet," Wilkinson's most recent book, Joy in the Morning ,was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2005.