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JONATHAN GREEN (1955 - )
Three Vessels
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Oil on canvas, 1998. 406x508 mm; 16x20 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left.
Provenance: private collection.
Jonathan Green paints the life of the Gullah people and the rural inland marshes and surrounding
Sea Islands of South Carolina, and is one of the best known contemporary artists painting the
Southern experience.Work, family celebrations, prayer, storytelling, and a variety of recreational
activities are all documented in Green’s paintings.
Green was born in 1955 in Gardens Corner, SC, and learned the Gullah dialect from his maternal
grandmother. Since graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1982, Green has exhibited his
work nationwide. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the
Morris Museum, Augusta, GA, the Afro-American Museum of Philadelphia, the Naples Museum
of Art, Naples, FL and the IFCC Cultural Center, Portland, OR. Green has received awards
recognizing both his work and his civic contributions. In 1996, Green received an honorary
doctorate from the University of South Carolina, the same year the book,
Gullah Images:The Art of
Jonathan Green
, reproducing a large number of his pieces was published. In 2009, Green received
the Key of Life Award for his contributions and achievements in the visual fine arts from the NAACP
at the organization’s 40th Image Awards. Source:The HistoryMakers.com
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