Greenville County Museum of Art 25^th Anniversary Antiques Show
October 15-17, 2010
Greenville, South Carolina

We were there in the beginning and are delighted to be participating in the silver anniversary edition of this premiere Southern antiques event. The weekend of lectures, forums, and social gatherings will be headlined by personal remembrances from Victoria Wyeth, granddaughter of Andrew Wyeth. The GCMA currently owns 35 works by the artist known as “America’s Painter,” including representative pieces from every major phase of his career. Mr. Wyeth, who died in 2009, called the Greenville County assemblage “the very best collection of my watercolors in any public museum in this country.” For more information and tickets, contact the Greenville County Museum of Art.

Charleston Fine Art Dealers' Association
Fine Art Annual
November 5-6, 2010

Truth be told, Charleston is as lovely in autumn as it is in spring, and the eleventh edition of the CFADA Fine Art Annual makes a marvelous excuse for a visit. The FAA weekend offers an array of cultural activities that celebrate our visual arts community, including exhibitions, scholarly lectures, artist demonstrations, and social gatherings. The event also highlights the work of promising young artists from the area and raises funds for local high school art programs.

For more information on the 2010 Fine Art Annual, please contact us or visit the CFADA website. The Charleston Renaissance Gallery is the founding member of the Charleston Fine Art Dealers' Association, a cooperative launched in 1999 for the purpose of advancing Charleston as a premier fine art destination.

Inman Portrait on View at Columbus Museum

A recent addition to its permanent collection, this Henry Inman portrait of Creek chief Opothle Yoholo is now on view as part of the Columbus (Georgia) Museum of Art’s exhibition, By the People, For the People. The work was acquired in 2010 by the institution as a museum purchase and as a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hicklin, Jr.

“Inspired by a fascination with the ‘exotic,’ ethnography, and an interest in documenting what many believed was a vanishing people, portraits of Native Americans were popular during the nineteenth century. At a time when relations between United States citizens and Native Americans were contentious because the Natives were being forced out of their ancestral lands, American artists created images that defined the Native American in the minds of the public then and now.” Henry Inman, Charles Bird King, and George Catlin were among the leading artists of the burgeoning genre.

For more information on this work and on the museum’s offerings, visit the Columbus Museum of Art’s website.

Alfred Hutty: Charleston's Adopted Renaissance Man

For a visual exposition of the centrality of Alfred Hutty to the movement that was and to the legacy that is the Charleston Renaissance, pick up the most recent copy of Legends Magazine. The nine-page color spread features dozens of illustrations of Hutty’s Charleston—etchings, watercolors, oils—many of which have passed through these doors at one time or another. It’s a feast for the eyes.
 

 

 The Story of Southern, in pictures.

When contemplating the story of Southern, there is perhaps no greater resource than William Faulkner. In nearly every possible literary form, Faulkner did indeed "tell about the South. " He wrote of what we do and why, in lyrical, haunting prose, drawing thousands of pictures on the page. Commenting on his chosen profession, Faulkner posited that "a writer needs three things: experience, observation, and imagination." Nearly forty years of travel and trade have provided me with no lack of any of the aforementioned. I have, from time to time, been overwhelmed by the number and scope of stories gathered like moss to this rolling stone and felt the need to capture the memories on paper. Or, for present-day application, on-line. Several of these vignettes are proferred here on our website. Under the "Projects" tab, click on "The Story of Southern." The remembrances rotate regularly and, yes, there are pictures.