Gullah Images

Gullah Images
by Jonathan Green
Adopted by
William E. Baxter's friends and colleagues
in honor of his decades of service to the Smithsonian Libraries
on October 26, 2020
Cover of Gullah Images

Gullah images : the art of Jonathan Green

By Jonathan Green. Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press, c1996.

This beautiful coffee table book book is signed by the author, Jonathan Green of South Carolina. It contains 108 color portraits and paintings, with captions describing each work of art. The first thirty pages share a biography of the artist and describe his life’s work. The rest of the book is devoted entirely to nothing but beautiful art. The images depict the artist’s upbringing. He was raised on a farm in Gullah country, the coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia, inhabited by the descendants of freed slaves from the area. 

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