People of the South

What: Art Exhibit 

Who: Mary Whyte

When: October 5, 2012- February 10, 2013

Where: Telfair Art Museum, Savannah 

Price: Free Admission

     Charleston Water Color Artist Mary Whyte painted a group of 30 paintings depicting the people of the Working South. She traveled throughout the South capturing the essence of the workers that she painted. She painted the fisherman, the seamstress, the boat captain, cotton mill worker, the farmer etc... 

Mrs. Whyte wanted to capture and honor the hard work of the blue color workers before they disappeared. The paintings hang in the adjacent 4 rooms of the second floor of the Academy building adjacent to the New Telfair Museum that was built a few years ago.

     I know of Mary Whyte work from her gallery on Church Street in Charleston. These paintings were amazing. The medium of water color is very hard to work in and her ability to capture the tiniest details on her subjects was amazing. For example, if you look at the Ferry Boat Captain, you can see each hair on his arm and she was able to catch each of her subjects expressions. All the paintings were beautiful and I felt that they did show a part of the South that people do not usually see. 

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