Higher ground : a century of the visual arts in East Tennessee / Stephen C. Wicks and Jack Neely, editors ; David Butler and Clark Gillespie, associate editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wicks, Stephen C., editor, author.

Neely, Jack, editor.

Butler, David Loran, editor, author of foreword.

Gillespie, Clark (Benjamin Clark), 1975- editor.

Booker, Robert J., 1935- contributor.

Knowles, Susan Williams, contributor.

Knoxville Museum of Art, host institution, publisher.

Charles Wendell David Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knoxville Museum of Art--Exhibitions.

Knoxville Museum of Art.

Art, American--Tennessee, East--19th century--Exhibitions.

Art, American.

Art, American--Tennessee, East--20th century--Exhibitions.

Tennessee, East.

Physical Description:

xi, 293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Century of the visual arts in East Tennessee

Place of Publication:

[Knoxville, Tennessee] : Knoxville Museum of Art, [2023].

Summary:

"Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee traces the evolution of artistic activity in Knoxville and its Appalachian environs from roughly the 1860s to the 1980s. Many of the featured artists spent their entire lives and careers in the area, while some moved away to follow their creative ambitions. Others came from outside the region, attracted by its natural beauty. Together, these artists' works form the basis of a visual arts tradition that is both compelling and largely unheralded. Higher Ground, the KMA's flagship permanent exhibition celebrating the richness and diversity of East Tennessee's visual culture, was reimagined in the museum's newly renovated entrance level galleries in the fall of 2023. The exhibition and accompanying 300 page catalog are organized into broad thematic sections that follow the period of Knoxville's development into a vital commercial and cultural hub, from the emergence of the first professional arts community to the establishment of the area's first major arts institutions"--https://knoxart.org/exhibitions/higher-ground-a-century-of-the-visual-arts-in-east-tennessee, accessed February 27, 2024.

Contents:

Foreword and acknowledgments / David Butler

Introduction / Stephen C. Wicks

Art in Knoxville : a narrative / Jack Neely

Three prominent Black Knoxville artists and the world that colored their views / Robert J. Booker

Seeing Tennessee marble / Susan W. Knowles

Higher ground : a century of the visual arts in East Tennessee / Stephen C. Wicks. Grand ambitions : forging an arts community [artists : James Cameron, Lloyd Branson, Catherine Wiley, Adelia Lutz, James W. Wallace, Hugh C. Tyler, Mayme A. Freeman, William Gilbert Gaul] ; Shaping a regional identity : mountain vistas and urban life [artists : Charles C. Krutch, Thomas Campbell, Rudolph Ingerle, Will Henry Stevens, James E. Thompson, Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Lewis Wickes Hine, Charles E. Krutch, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Danny Lyon, Walker Evans, Baldwin Lee, Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Griffin Farr, Joseph Delaney] ; Beauford and Joseph Delaney : expatriate masters ; The Knoxville 7 [artists : C. Kermit "Buck" Ewing, Robert Birdwell, Richard Clarke, Joanna Higgs Ross, Philip Nichols, Walter H. Stevens, Carl Sublett] ; Bessie Harvey

Contributors

Sponsors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles Wendell David Library Fund.

ISBN:

0998825247

9780998825243

OCLC:

1390123465