A native of Nashville and the son of former slaves, William Edmondson (1872 - 1951) was the first African American artist to be featured in a solo show at New York's Museum of Modern Art (1937). For this exhibition MoMA director Alfred Barr remarked, ""Usually the naive artist works in the easier medium of painting. Edmondson, however, has chosen to work in limestone, which he attacks with extraordinary courage and directness, to carve out simple, emphatic forms."" Robert Bishop, the late director of the Museum of American ...
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A native of Nashville and the son of former slaves, William Edmondson (1872 - 1951) was the first African American artist to be featured in a solo show at New York's Museum of Modern Art (1937). For this exhibition MoMA director Alfred Barr remarked, ""Usually the naive artist works in the easier medium of painting. Edmondson, however, has chosen to work in limestone, which he attacks with extraordinary courage and directness, to carve out simple, emphatic forms."" Robert Bishop, the late director of the Museum of American Folk Art, declared Edmondson to be ""one of the outstanding folk carvers--if not the outstanding one--of the twentieth century."" Edmondson's first works were memorial gravestones. Later he created animal, human, and celestial figures. His carvings were inspired by his faith, community, and culture. He told the story of how God spoke to him. ""I was out in the driveway with some old pieces of stone when I heard a voice telling me to pick up my tools and start to work on a tombstone. I looked up in the sky and right there in the noon daylight He hung a tombstone out for me to make."" Showcasing Edmondson's sculpture and placing it in the mainstream of American art for the first time, this lavishly illustrated volume accompanies a traveling exhibition organized by the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville. In new interpretations that challenge long-held views about Edmondson's artistic naievete, the essays emphasize his profound and intimate connection to his community and its traditions. Adding immeasurably to the understanding of Edmondson's art are photographs by Edward Weston, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, and Consuelo Kanaga that show the artist in his community and his workplace.
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Edmondson, William. Very good(+) Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. 232 pages. 4to, pictorial wrappers, lightly edgeworn. Nashville, Tennessee; Cheekwood Museum of Art, (1999). A very good(+) copy.
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Fine. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee from January 28 to April 23, 2000. The exhibition then traveled to New York City, Rochester, NY, Atlanta, and finally Orlando in 2001. Essays by Robert Farris Thompson, Bobby L. Lovett, Rusty Freeman, Judith McWillie, Grey Gundaker, Lowery Stokes Sims, and Edward Weston. 58 sculptures in the exhibition all illustrated in color. Also many black & white photographs. Timeline. Exhibition history. Bibliography. 11" high X 9" wide, 232 pages. A beautiful copy. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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