Product Description
With an artistic appreciation for the world surrounding him that springs forth from each inspired brushstroke, realist painter William McCullough has produced a truly remarkable body of work in his celebrated forty-year career. From a stately stand of plantation oaks awash in the stark light of dusk to the weathered boards of a Charleston single house shaded by palmettos, McCullough captures as no one else the quiet grandeur of his diverse subjects.
This enthralling new book features an extraordinary selection of McCullough's work, coupled with a conversation between the artist and writer William Baldwin—two of the most creative contemporary Southern minds. Differing in medium but strikingly similar in perspective and approach, these two keepers of a region's artistic tradition offer unparalleled insight into the dynamic of the South.
This enthralling new book features an extraordinary selection of McCullough's work, coupled with a conversation between the artist and writer William Baldwin—two of the most creative contemporary Southern minds. Differing in medium but strikingly similar in perspective and approach, these two keepers of a region's artistic tradition offer unparalleled insight into the dynamic of the South.
About the Author
William McCullough is a renowned Southern realist painter who paints in the plein-air tradition, popularized by the French Impressionists. His landscapes, portraits, and still lifes are classically rendered in oil and pastels. He can be found throughout the year painting in Provence, France, the mountains of North Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, Taos, New Mexico and elsewhere.
William Baldwin is an award-winning novelist, biographer and historian. His novel The Hard to Catch Mercy is a past winner of the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction and he is the author of numerous books and articles about the South, among them Inland Passages, Lowcountry Plantations Today and Mrs. Whaley and her Charleston Garden. His most recent novel is A Gentleman in Charleston and the Manner of His Death.
William Baldwin is an award-winning novelist, biographer and historian. His novel The Hard to Catch Mercy is a past winner of the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction and he is the author of numerous books and articles about the South, among them Inland Passages, Lowcountry Plantations Today and Mrs. Whaley and her Charleston Garden. His most recent novel is A Gentleman in Charleston and the Manner of His Death.
