Research Catalog

Title

• Winfred Rembert : memories of my youth / introduction by Warren Adelson ; essay by Jock Reynolds ; additional texts by Lisa Bush Hankin ... [et al.] ; painting captions by Winfred Rembert.

Author

Rembert, Winfred

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Adelson Galleries in association with Peter Tillou Works of Art,^^Litchfield, Connecticut, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Adelson Galleries
• Adelson, Warren
• Hankin, Lisa Bush
• Peter Tillou Works of Art.
• Reynolds, Jock

Description

117 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports.; 32 cm.

Summary

"A self-taught artist, Rembert grew up working in the cotton fields of Cuthbert, Georgia, in the 1950's. He was arrested after a 1960's civil rights march and survived a near-lynching before serving seven years in jail. It was in jail, creating wallets next to another inmate, that he first learned to hand-tool leather. Years later, at the suggestion of his wife, Rembert integrated storytelling and the tales of his youth into tableaux on sheets of tanned leather. He soon attracted the attention and support of Jock Reynolds, Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, who exhibited his work next to that of renowned African-American artist and educator Hale Woodruff. Rembert often begins his pictures with drawings to work out detailed patterns. When the stories are carved and tooled into the leather, his images take on texture and depth, and finally he paints the surfaces in vivid dyes. The surface of the piece becomes an important aspect of the composition. The final images offer a flamboyant narrative of life in the still-segregated South of the mid-twentieth century. Rembert draws heavily from his own experience, populating his paintings with pool sharks, reverends, midwives and chain gangs—all of which come to life with the richness and vitality of oral tradition. The scenes range from cotton fields to night life. Each is as finely detailed as it is emotionally powerful."

Alternative Title

Memories of my youth

Subject

• 2000-2099
• African American art > 21st century > Exhibitions
• African American artist > Exhibitions
• African Americans > Georgia > Exhibitions
• African Americans in art
• Art, Black > Exhibitions
• Rembert, Winfred > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Adelson Galleries, New York, Apr. 7-May 28, 2010.
• Price list tipped in.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

607096441

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library