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The Art of William O. Golding: Hard Knocks, Hardships, and Lots of Experience

The Art of William O. Golding: Hard Knocks, Hardships, and Lots of Experience

Delorme, Harry

Hardcover

American Art - African American & Black

ISBN10: 0933075227
ISBN13: 9780933075221
Publisher: Telfair Books
Published: Apr 26 2022
Pages: 144
Weight: 2.20
Height: 0.71 Width: 9.13 Depth: 11.18
Language: English

Distributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of Telfair Books.

This book explores the remarkable art and life of William O. Golding (1874--1943), an African American mariner and artist who made vibrant drawings of ships and far off ports while he was a patient at the US Marine Hospital in Savannah, Georgia, during the 1930s. Autobiography, private symbolism, and sailor's lore color his drawings, which contain worlds of information embedded in signal flags, waterfronts, and expressive miniature figures. His experience was rooted in the South, with the added perspective of a sailor and world traveler who served in the US Navy and as a merchant seaman during times of war. Expressive and idiosyncratic, his drawings stand out in the history of American art and are long overdue for closer study. 76 full page reproductions of Golding's work allow the reader to examine the artist's maritime world in exceptional detail.

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