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          Alabama Creates

          Alabama Creates

          200 Years of Art and Artists

          Edited by Elliot A. Knight

          Preface by Al Head

          Introduction by Gail C. Andrews

          Contributions by Cathy Criss Adams, Gail C. Andrews, Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, Peter J. Baldaia, Graham C. Boettcher, Alea Bondarenko, Joey Brackner, Jessica Dallow, Kristin Davis, William U. Eiland, Sarah Faulkner, Kate C. Fisher, Dennis Harper, Al Head, Megan Hicks, Vicki L. Ingham, Jennifer Jankauskas, Lynn Barstis Williams Katz, Anne Kimzey, Elliot A. Knight, Marilyn Laufer, Dana-Marie Lemmer, Noah Purifoy Foundation, Michael W. Panhorst, Ron Platt, Barbara Reed, Paul W. Richelson, Frances Osborn Robb, Susan C. Robertson, Theodore Rosengarten, Stephanie Timberlake, Deborah Velders, Emily White and Valerie L. White

          264 Pages, 12.00 x 10.00 x 1.30 in, 212 color figures - 36 B&W figures

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          • 9780817320102
          • Published: July 2019

          $39.95

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          A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists
           
          Alabama artists have been an integral part of the story of the state, reflecting a wide-ranging and multihued sense of place through images of the land and its people. Quilts, pottery, visionary paintings, sculpture, photography, folk art, and abstract art have all contributed to diverse visions of Alabama’s culture and environment. The works of art included in this volume have all emerged from a distinctive milieu that has nourished the creation of powerful visual expressions, statements that are both universal and indigenous.
           
          Published to coincide with the state’s bicentennial, Alabama Creates:  200 Years of Art and Artists features ninety-four of Alabama’s most accomplished, noteworthy, and influential practitioners of the fine arts from 1819 to the present. The book highlights a broad spectrum of artists who worked in the state, from its early days to its current and contemporary scene, exhibiting the full scope and breadth of Alabama art.
           
          This retrospective volume features biographical sketches and representative examples of each artist’s most masterful works.  Alabamians like Gay Burke, William Christenberry, Roger Brown, Thornton Dial, Frank Fleming, the Gee’s Bend Quilters, Lonnie Holley, Dale Kennington, Charlie Lucas, Kerry James Marshall, David Parrish, and Bill Traylor are compared and considered with other nationally significant artists.
           
          Alabama Creates is divided into four historical periods, each spanning roughly fifty years and introduced by editor Elliot A. Knight. Knight contextualizes each era with information about the development of Alabama art museums and institutions and the evolution of college and university art departments. The book also contains an overview of the state’s artistic heritage by Gail C. Andrews, director emerita of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Alabama Creates conveys in a sweeping and captivating way the depth of talent, the range of creativity, and the lasting contributions these artists have made to Alabama’s extraordinarily rich visual and artistic heritage.

          Acknowledgments

          Preface by Al Head

          Introduction by Gail C. Andrews

          Part I. Prehistory to 1868

          Chapter 1. William Frye

          Chapter 2. John Lehman

          Chapter 3. Nicola Marschall

          Chapter 4. S. Phillip Romer

          Chapter 5. William Carroll Saunders

          Chapter 6. Edward Troye

          Part II. 1869–1918

          Chapter 7. Lucille Sinclair Douglass

          Chapter 8. Anne Goldthwaite

          Chapter 9. Louise Lyons Heustis

          Chapter 10. Mary Morgan Keipp

          Chapter 11. Giuseppe Moretti

          Chapter 12. Clara Weaver Parrish

          Chapter 13. Lois Slosson Sundberg

          Chapter 14. Maria Howard Weeden

          Part III. 1919–1968

          Chapter 15. Frank Hartley Anderson

          Chapter 16. Frank Woodberry Applebee

          Chapter 17. Virginia Barnes

          Chapter 18. Richard Blauvelt Coe

          Chapter 19. Frank Engle

          Chapter 20. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald

          Chapter 21. John Kelly Fitzpatrick

          Chapter 22. Crawford Gillis

          Chapter 23. Isaac Scott Hathaway

          Chapter 24. Draffus Lamar Hightower

          Chapter 25. Carrie Hill

          Chapter 26. John Lapsley

          Chapter 27. John Roderick Dempster MacKenzie

          Chapter 28. James “Spider” Martin

          Chapter 29. Geneva Mercer

          Chapter 30. Carlos Alpha “Shiney” Moon

          Chapter 31. Charles Moore

          Chapter 32. Ann Weaver Norton

          Chapter 33. Prentice Herman Polk

          Chapter 34. Alvin Conrad Sella

          Chapter 35. Charles Shannon

          Chapter 36. William Spratling

          Chapter 37. Arthur Stewart

          Chapter 38. Maltby Sykes

          Chapter 39. Bill Traylor

          Chapter 40. John Augustus Walker

          Chapter 41. Kathryn Tucker Windham

          Chapter 42. Richard Zoellner

          Part IV. 1969–2019

          Chapter 43. Butch Anthony

          Chapter 44. Arthur L. Bacon

          Chapter 45. Pinky/MM Bass

          Chapter 46. Mozell Benson

          Chapter 47. Cal Breed

          Chapter 48. Jerry Brown

          Chapter 49. Roger Brown

          Chapter 50. Gay Burke

          Chapter 51. Richmond Burton

          Chapter 52. Gary Chapman

          Chapter 53. William Andrew Christenberry Jr.

          Chapter 54. Chip Cooper

          Chapter 55. Thornton Dial

          Chapter 56. Casey Downing Jr.

          Chapter 57. Nora Ezell

          Chapter 58. Howard Finster

          Chapter 59. Frank Fleming

          Chapter 60. Robert Lawrence “Larry” Godwin

          Chapter 61. Darius Hill

          Chapter 62. Lonnie Holley

          Chapter 63. Dale Kennington

          Chapter 64. Bettye Kimbrell

          Chapter 65. Janice Kluge

          Chapter 66. Simmie Knox

          Chapter 67. Cam Langley

          Chapter 68. Dale Lewis

          Chapter 69. Rick Lowe

          Chapter 70. Charlie Lucas

          Chapter 71. Kerry James Marshall

          Chapter 72. Dean Mosher

          Chapter 73. Nall

          Chapter 74. James Emmette Neel

          Chapter 75. David Parrish

          Chapter 76. Stephen Rolfe Powell

          Chapter 77. Noah Purifoy

          Chapter 78. Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend

          Chapter 79. Sonja Rieger

          Chapter 80. Guadalupe Lanning Robinson

          Chapter 81. Carolyn Sherer

          Chapter 82. Jerry Siegel

          Chapter 83. Charles Smith

          Chapter 84. Melissa Springer

          Chapter 85. Scott Stephens

          Chapter 86. Jimmy Lee Sudduth

          Chapter 87. Nina Gail Thrower

          Chapter 88. Mose Tolliver

          Chapter 89. Craig R. Wedderspoon

          Chapter 90. Yvonne Wells

          Chapter 91. Myrtice West

          Chapter 92. Jack Whitten

          Chapter 93. Hugh O. Williams

          Chapter 94. Evan Wilson

          Contributing Authors

          Where to see Visual Art in Alabama

          Resources to Learn More about Alabama Visual Arts and Artists

          Books and Exhibition Catalogues

          Elliot A. Knight is the executive director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts. He previously served there as the visual arts program manager, the deputy director, and the director of the Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery.
           
          Al Head is executive director emeritus of the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
           
          Gail C. Andrews is director emerita of the Birmingham Museum of Art.

          “Alabama artists have helped contextualize the state as a place that is embracing its past while visualizing its future. Artists such as the internationally hailed quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend, public artist Rick Lowe, painters Jack Whitten and Thornton Dial, and photographer Carolyn Sherer have portrayed a richer understanding of Alabama that is appreciated not only by those of us who live here but also by the nation in general. Alabama would not have the exposure or the expanded worldview that are so apparent without the work of the visual artists who have helped us reveal the complexity, diversity, and multifaceted nature of our populations and our state. Alabama artists help us define who we are and what home is.”
          —from the introduction by Gail C. Andrews

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