Spot: Southern Works on Paper: The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina - Softcover

In 1985, The Charleston Renaissance Gallery issued "The South on Paper," a comprehensive overview of the intriguing development and singular character of Southern drawings, watercolors, and pastels which is considered a pioneering piece of scholarship and a catalyst for a far more ambitious publishing program. Continuing in this venerable tradition, the Charleston Renaissance Gallery is pleased to present Spot: Southern Works on Paper, a full color catalog illuminating over sixty Southern masterworks and the artists who created them. In both style and subject matter, the showcased works reveal evolving approaches and varied subjects, including topographical and romantic landscapes, figure studies, and genre and city scenes. The catalog examines classical, realist, impressionist, modernist and post-modernist styles over the course of two centuries, as well as distinctive mediums. Selections include Joshua Shaw's pioneering 1820 view of Virginia's famed Natural Bridge, Charles Shannon's expressive Syncopation Number 1 (circa 1939), and William Dunlap's contemporary landscape, Waterside-Iris Watch (2004), as well as works from the Charleston Renaissance. The catalog has an introductory essay by Dr. Philip L. Brewer, foreword by Robert M. Hicklin, Jr., preface by Roberta Sokolitz, and contributions by noted historians, including Valerie Ann Leeds, Nancy Rivard Shaw, Alexander Moore, and Estill Curtis Pennington.