American 20th-21st Century Southern Landscape Painting
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with an emphasis on representational art
(above: Paul Sawyier (1865-1917), Kentucky Landscape, c. 1900, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
My Own Places: Paintings and Prints by Martha Kelly is a 2015-16 exhibit at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens which says: "Memphis native Martha Kelly is a painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose work celebrates the Southern landscape, particularly Memphis and the Mid-South. Kelly's paintings of open fields, spreading skies, and dominating oaks are created with large, flat planes of color with special attention to shadow and light. Her vibrant palette and restrained brushwork are echoed in her woodblock and linoleum block prints, which are punctuated by pops of bright color." Also Isssuu excerpt from Hutchison Magazine 4/16 article and artist's website. Accessed 2/17
Painting the Southern Coast: The Art of West Fraser is a 2017 exhibit at the Gibbes Museum of Art which says: "An inveterate traveler, he has painted throughout the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, and Scandinavia. Yet his passion always draws him back to the marshes and landscape of the Georgia and South Carolina coast." Also see artist's website. Accessed 3/17
The World of Rolland Golden was an exhibit held August 6 through October 30, 2016 at the Morris Museum of Art. MMA says: "Still active at eighty-four, Rolland Golden is one of the most renowned artists to have emerged in the South during the second half of the twentieth century. In addition to the styles of realism and "abstract realism," he is known for a style he developed, which he calls "'borderline surrealism,' realistic imagery in a not impossible, but highly unlikely situation." Golden was born in New Orleans, but his father's job at AT&T had the family moving with frequency-first to Grenada, Mississippi, and later Jackson, Mississippi, eventually to Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama, before returning to New Orleans more or less for good." Also see Rolland Harve Golden entry in KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Accessed August, 2016.
(above: Lucile Blanch, Rural Mississippi
from Early Days to Present (study for mural), 1941, 9.6 x 17.3
inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia
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