The Life and Work of Ernest A. Pickup - Hardcover

St John, Beverly P

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0578040379 ISBN 13: 9780578040370

Publisher: Beverly P. St. John & Gary A. Webb, 2018

Synopsis

Ernest A. Pickup (1887–1970) was one of Nashville’s first commercial artists. He produced thousands of illustrations and commercial designs throughout a career that spanned over fifty years. Today he is best remembered for the fine quality of black and white woodblock prints he produced during the Depression years of the 1930s. Inspired by Thomas Hart Benton and other exponents of the Regionalism movement, his prints reflect historic places of interest in Nashville and rural scenes of nature in and around his home in Brentwood. Recently his work was included in print exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art (2007) and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Alabama (2008). Little has been written on print making in Tennessee, and this catalog of Pickup’s work provides a prime source of information on this long-neglected period of art history.

Beverly Pickup St. John, the daughter of the artist, majored in art at Ward-Belmont College (now Belmont University). She holds an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Bethel College and an Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Memphis Theological Seminary.

Gary A. Webb, is an attorney and writer. For over forty years, he has worked with Sarah Webb and a diverse range of other artists, both in the United States and Europe. An avid promoter of art, he has curated numerous exhibitions and has written and lectured widely on the arts. Another book authored by Gary A. Webb is available by searching Amazon for catalog ID B0BG96G226, titled Sarah Webb: A Contemporary Realist Abroad.

Edition details

• Publisher: Beverly P. St. John & Gary A. Webb
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0578040379
• ISBN 13: 9780578040370
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 102