Art in Mississippi, 1700-1980

Art in Mississippi, 1700–1980 by Patti Carr Black, copublished by the Mississippi Historical Society, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and the University Press of Mississippi, is the first volume in the Society’s Heritage of Mississippi series, fifteen books covering the history of Mississippi, to be published individually over the next twenty years.

Author Patti Carr Black is the former director of the Old Capitol Museum, where she curated the first public exhibitions of work by major Mississippi artists such as Walter Anderson and George Ohr. That experience, plus a lifetime devoted to the arts and three years of intensive research for this volume, is reflected in its incisive yet far-ranging narrative. In Art in Mississippi, Black focuses on several hundred significant artists and showcases in full color the work of more than two hundred.

Patti Black has written and edited many books dealing with Mississippi art, including Agnes Grinstead Anderson’s Approaching the Magic Hour: Memories of Walter Anderson, Made by Hand: Mississippi Folk Art, Documentary Photographs of Mississippi during the 1930s, and Sea, Earth, Sky: The Art of Walter Anderson.

“The world has long been aware of Mississippi’s powerful presence and heritage in literature and music,” William F. Winter, chair, Board of Editors, Heritage of Mississippi series, writes in his foreword to this new volume. “Now, with the publication of Patti Black’s Art in Mississippi, 1720–1980, we discover another treasure trove—Mississippi's visual arts.”

Copies are $60 each, plus $5 shipping and handling and $4.20 sales tax for orders within the state. To order, call the Old Capitol Shop, 601-359-6921.

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