Alabama Representational Art History
Resource Library essays listed by author name in alphabetical order, followed by articles:
Beyond Moonlight and Magnolias: Contemporary Women Artists of Alabama
Southern Art: 19th-21st Century. (for years 1997-2000 20-21st Century Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Painting includes Southeast and Southern American Painting)
Museums and other non-profit sources of Resource Library articles and essays:
Anniston Museum of Natural History
Berman Museum of World History
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Other online sources:
Year of Alabama Arts is an interactive website including short videos on folk artists, including Gee's Bend Quilters, plus other information on arts and crafts
The Bayou Painters were an important and lively art colony active in Coden and Bayou la Batre, Alabama in the late 1940s and early 1950s
Dixie Art Colony/Alabama Gulf Coast Colony, from AskArt.com
TFAO's
Distinguished
Artists catalogue provides online
access to biographical information for artists associated with this state.
Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and
essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history
and the history of art centers and museums in this state. Resource Library
articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not
listed on this page.
Books:
Alabama Folk Pottery, by Joey
Brackner. 352 pages. Publisher: University Alabama Press; 1 edition (September
29, 2006). ISBN-10: 0817315098. 
ISBN-13:
978-0817315092. Review: "A major addition to the study of southern
pottery as well as Alabama history and art. I'm truly impressed with the
extraordinary number of potters Brackner has uncovered and the wide range
of evidence he uses to shed light on their achievements." -Charles
(Terry) Zug, author of Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North
Carolina" (text and image courtesy of Amazon.com)
The Bayou Painters: South Alabama's Art Colony (1946-1953); Mobile Museum of Art, January 13-March 26, 2006., By Mobile Museum of Art. Published by Mobile Museum of Art, 2006. ISBN 1893174069, 9781893174061. 40 pages. "Catalog of an exhibition of art by "the bayou painters", an art colony in the Mobile/Bayou laBatre/Coden area which florished from 1946 to 1953 but continued in diminished form for a number of years after."
Art of the New South: Women Artists of Birmingham 1890 - 1950. 99 pages. Birmingham Historical Society (2004). ISBN-10: 0943994292. ISBN-13: 978-094399429. Product Description: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition: "Art of the New South: Women Artists in Birmingham 1890 - 1950," organized by the Birmingham Historical Society at the Birmingham Public Library in late 2004. This oversized heavily-illustrated book contains information about and paintings by Birmingham-area artists Caroline Lovell, Carrie Montgomery, Carrie Hill, Lucille Douglass, Alice Edith Rumph, Della Dyer, Hannah Eliot, and Willie McLaughlin." text courtesy of Amazon.com
Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, by John Beardsley, William Arnett), Paul Arnett, Jane Livingston. 432 pages. Tinwood Books (August 2002). ISBN-10: 0971910405. ISBN-13: 978-0971910409. Product Description: "Since the 19th century, the women of Gee's Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. Beautifully illustrated with 350 color illustrations, 30 black-and-white illustrations, and charts, Gee's Bend to Rehoboth is being·released in conjunction with a national exhibition tour including The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art." text courtesy of Amazon.com
Alabama Art, by Nall. 128 pages. Publisher: Black Belt Press (July 2000). ISBN-10: 1880216590. ISBN-13: 978-1880216590. "Nall's retrospective to native artists from Alabama is a must for anyone interested in the work of this great artist. Although not currently as well known as the artist he studied under, Salvatore Dali, he is fast becoming a modern day Dali in his own right. Although focusing on artists from Alabama, Nall's personal contribution, in the form of an artistic interpretation of each artist is an example of his mastery. I cannot recommend the book or the artist highly enough." quoted from Amazon Customer Reviews. November 4, 2002. By Sam Long
Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists with Alabama Ties, By Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile Museum of Art, Paul W. Richelson, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art. Published by Huntsville Museum of Art, 1995. ISBN 1885820011, 9781885820013. 84 pages. "Catalog for an exhibition held March 11-May 7, 1995 at the Mobile Museum of Art, and July 2-September 3, 1995 at the Huntsville Museum of Art."
Made in Alabama: A State Legacy, By E. Bryding Adams, Leah Rawls Atkins. Published by Birmingham Museum of Art, 1995. ISBN 0931394406, 9780931394409. 392 pages
Revelations: Alabama's Visionary Folk Artists, by Kathy Kemp, Keith Boyer. 224 pages. Crane Hill Publishers; 1st edition (June 1994). ISBN-10: 1881548074. ISBN-13: 978-1881548072
In View of Home: Alabama Landscape Photographs : [exhibition] April 23-June 1, 1989, Huntsville Museum of Art., By Huntsville Museum of Art. Published by Huntsville Museum of Art, 1989
The Traditional Pottery of Alabama: Essays by E. Henry Willett and Joey Brackner, By E. Henry Willett, Joey Brackner, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama State Council on the Arts and Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts. Published by Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1983. ISBN 0892800208, 9780892800209. 70 pages. "An exhibition jointly sponsored by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Humanities, with the assistance of the Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts."
Black Belt to Hill Country: Alabama Quilts from the Robert and Helen Cargo Collection ; Birmingham Museum of Art, Dec. 13, 1981-Jan. 24, 1982; Montgomery Museum of Art, Sept. 16-Nov. 14, 1982, By Robert Cargo, Birmingham, Ala. Museum of Art, Montgomery Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.), Helen Cargo, Ala Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Robert and Helen Cargo, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Ala. Museum of Fine Arts. Published by Birmingham Museum of Art?, 1982. 92 pages
Alabama's Aboriginal Rock Art, by Bart Henson. 37 pages. Publisher: Alabama Historical Commission (1979). ASIN: B0006XD7WE. (text courtesy of Amazon.com)
Historic Sites of Jefferson County, Alabama, By Carolyn Green Satterfield, Jefferson County Historical Commission (Ala.), Published by Printed by the Gray Printing Co., 1976. 166 pages
The Art of the Alabama Indians, by Robert O Mellown. 43 pages, Publisher: University of Alabama Art Gallery (1976). ASIN: B0006CP1DI (text courtesy of Amazon.com)
Alabama artists; A paper presented to the Ionian Club, February 6, 1958. Comp. from scrap books and records of the Alabama Art League, by Mildred Abrams Hill
Note: Google Books and Amazon.com searches for books were made by TFAO in December, 2008.
Articles:
Vicki L. Ingham: "Women Artists of Birmingham, 1890-1950" American Art Review September-October 2004 (Volume XVI, Number 5)
Carolyn Shafer Murphy: "The Blount Corporate Art Collection" American Art Review May-June 1999 (Volume XI, Number 3)
Lynn Barstis Williams: "South Alabama's Art Colony" American Art Review January-February 2006 (Volume XVIII, Number 1)
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