Product Description: More Than a Likeness: The Enduring Art of Mary Whyte is the first comprehensive book on the life and work of one of today's most renowned watercolorists. From Whyte's earliest paintings in rural Ohio and Pennsylvania, to the riveting portraits of her southern neighbors, historian Martha R...read more

Product Description: William Halsey (1915-1999) lived in Charleston, South Carolina, for most of his life. Unlike most resident artists who preceded him and many who followed, Halsey did not paint picturesque scenes of his native city. Halsey was a modernist in a city known for its traditional beauty and romance...read more

Product Description: In 2003 Charleston artist Corrie McCallum (1914-2009) was honored with the Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, South Carolina's highest public honor for those who have contributed to the cultural enrichment of the state...read more

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Product Description: A survey of major issues in American art history through examples with Southern connections.

Product Description: Miniature portraiture had its origin in Renaissance humanism. When fifteenth- and sixteenth-century patrons and artists began to abandon religious themes, they turned to landscape, genre, and portraiture. Of these, portraiture was emphatically human-centered, with the primary concern being the creation of a credible likeness...read more