TO PAINT AND PRAY; THE ART AND LIFE OF WILLIAM R. HOLLINGSWORTH, JR.

Dietrick, Robin C. and J. Richard Gruber. Mississippi Museum of Art. [William R. Hollingsworth, 1910-1944.]

ISBN 10: 1887422218 / ISBN 13: 9781887422215

Published by Jackson, MS: Mississippi Museum of Art - University Press of Mississippi (distributor), 2012., 2012

About this Item

First edition (not stated). 104 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 28.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; front flap is not price-clipped. White boards. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding is firm. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "To Paint and Pray: The Art and Life of William R. Hollingsworth, Jr." held at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi from September 22, 2012 through January 13, 2013. (MS_Shelf_#2} ISBN 9781887422215.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TO PAINT AND PRAY; THE ART AND LIFE OF WILLIAM R. HOLLINGSWORTH, JR.
• Publisher: Jackson, MS: Mississippi Museum of Art - University Press of Mississippi (distributor), 2012.
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1887422218
• ISBN 13: 9781887422215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

William R. Hollingsworth, Jr. (1910-1944) remains one of Mississippi's most significant artists. To Paint and Pray explores Hollingsworth's life, from his childhood in Jackson, through his studies at the University of Mississippi and the Art Institute of Chicago, to his adulthood in Jackson as an artist. Hollingsworth was prolific in his work, capturing the landscapes and people of central Mississippi in watercolors and oil. In 1958 Eudora Welty stated of Hollingsworth that the accuracy of his eye, turned on the home scene, is as marvelously reliable as that of another Mississippi William in another line of work."

To Paint and Pray contains a biographical essay by curator Robin C. Dietrick and a critical essay by scholar J. Richard Gruber, along with an extensive timeline of the artist's life and career. The book includes more than 120 illustrations from Hollingsworth's poetic paintings to notes jotted in his private sketchbooks and intimate family photographs. To Paint and Pray is the most extensive publication on William R. Hollingsworth, Jr., to date. During his lifetime, the artist received numerous national awards for his art and exhibited across the country, from San Diego to Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis, Atlanta, and New York, among others. Working at the time of the great "regionalists" Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood, Hollingsworth exhibited alongside those masters and was building a name for himself nationally at the time of his death. Recently, with renewed interest in southern art, Hollingsworth's enduring artwork is again growing in popularity.

About the Author

Robin C. Dietrick has worked in and with museums and other organizations for more than twenty years as a curator, designer, and editor. She founded Symmetry LLC in 2013 following her tenure as curator of exhibitions for the Mississippi Museum of Art.