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A Southern collection : select works from a permanent collection of painting in the South prepared for the opening of the Morris Museum of Art, September 24, 1992
- Title
- A Southern collection : select works from a permanent collection of painting in the South prepared for the opening of the Morris Museum of Art, September 24, 1992 / by Estill Curtis Pennington ; with a foreword by William S. Morris.
- Author
- Pennington, Estill Curtis.
- Publication
- Augusta, Ga. : Morris Communications Corp., 1992.
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- Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, Ga.)
- Description
- 246 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm
- Summary
- A Southern Collection presents select masterworks from the permanent collection of the Morris Museum of Art on the occasion of the institution's inaugural exhibition. Drawn from a comprehensive survey collection of painting in the South from the late eighteenth century to the present day, the museum's opening exhibit explores an artistic terrain as rich and diverse as the South itself, arranged in categories that reflect critical chronological developments in the art world. A survey of painting activity in the South begins with the travels of itinerant portrait artists working prior to the Civil War. At the same time, landscape painting encompasses a sensitive response to the swamps, bayous and fertile fields of the South. Late in the nineteenth century strong and vivid genre painting competes with the nostalgic effects realized by Southern impressionists, whose shimmering, liquid images are invested with an elusive spirit of place.
- In this century, those strains of realism and naturalism that characterize the classic body of Southern writing appear in the representational art of painters who defied the modern abstract dictum. And finally, the exciting, compelling works of a current generation of both self-taught artists and sophisticated contemporary painters complete this fascinating, though sometimes neglected, chapter in American art history.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / William S. Morris, III -- Regard for Southern Art Since 1960 / Estill Curtis Pennington -- Antebellum Portraiture -- Art of the Civil War -- The Black Presence in Southern Painting -- Southern Still-Life Art -- Landscape Painting in the South -- Southern Impressionism -- Works on Paper -- Twentieth-Century Art -- The Self-Taught Southern Artist -- Contemporary Southern Painting -- Checklist of the Permanent Southern Collection.
- ISBN
- 096182705X (hardcover) :
- 0961827068 (soft cover) :
- LCCN
- 92023560
- OCLC
- 123247277
- ocn123247277
- SCSB-14515470
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries