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Artist James Augustus McLean (1904-1989)
Year 1979
Medium Airbrush on paper 19"x25" (image size)
Price $350

James McLean was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, into a large family of a stone- cutter.  In April 1923, he began five years of classes at the PAFA’s summer school at Chester Springs. He studied in Philadelphia under Daniel Garber, Charles Garner, and Joseph Pearson. In 1929, McLean was drawn back to North Carolina, where he set up and taught single handedly The Southern School of Creative Arts in Raleigh. Mclean supervised the programs for the Art Center in Raleigh which opened in 1936. McLean used Impressionism and more avant-garde methods in his work, while maintaining realism. 

This work illustrates his late career output when he began experimenting with different mediums and compositions. During the 1970 and into the early 1980s, McLean worked in numerous materials including pen & ink, tempera paints, airbrush and woodblocks. His output during this time was significant.

Artist Alfred Heber Hutty (1874-1954)
Year 1924
Medium Drypoint etching on paper 7"x6" (Image size)
Price Price upon request

Alfred Heber Hutty was a 20th-century American artist who is considered one of the leading figures of the Charleston Renaissance. His oeuvre ranges from impressionist landscape paintings to detailed drawings and prints of life in the South Carolina Lowcountry. He was active in local arts organizations, helping to found both an art school and an etchers' club. Hutty first established himself in Woodstock as a painter of evocative, impressionist landscapes in oil and watercolor. After moving to Charleston, he took up etching and drypoint and became nationally known for his quiet, detailed prints of local landscapes (especially trees), street scenes, historical buildings, farm life, and African-American residents. His prints of the South Carolina Lowcountry won a number of awards and medals, including the Scarab Club Medal of the Detroit Institute of Art and the Logan Prize of the Art Institute of Chicago. Along with Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Anna Heyward Taylor, and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, he is today considered one of the leading artists of the Charleston Renaissance.

Artist Anne Taylor Nash (1884-1968) Unsigned
Year 1940s
Medium Oil on canvas 22”x28” (canvas size)
Price $495.00

Anne Taylor Nash (1884–1968) was an American painter, largely of portraits. Born Anne Mauger Taylor in Pittsboro, North Carolina, Nash did not begin painting until she was forty, being inspired to do so by her friend Elizabeth O'Neill Verner. She studied art at the Gibbes Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the École des Beaux-Arts in Fontainbleau, and the New England School of Fine Arts, and she was a pupil of Verner's in 1924. She was an active member of the Southern States Art League and the Carolina Art Association. Nash married Edmund Strudwick Nash, a descendant of Francis Nash and a relative of Ogden Nash, in 1906, and shortly thereafter moved to Charleston, South Carolina. Her portraits were exhibited at the Gibbes in 1933. In 1937 the family moved to Savannah, Georgia, where she remained active for the rest of her life, exhibiting at the Telfair Museum of Art with the Savannah Art Club at least ten times between 1931 and 1958. Her work was once again the subject of a retrospective at the Telfair in 2015.

This work comes from the estate of the late John Duncan, a preeminent southern historian from Savannah, Georgia. Duncan purchased the remainder of Nash’s works from her estate in 2005.

Artist Dorothy "Dot" Hooks (1916- )
Year 1990
Medium Pastel on paper 15 1/4"x21" (image size)

Price $350.00

Dorothy “Dot” Hooks was Johnston County's (North Carolina) foremost artist. Born in 1916 she studied at the Art Students League in New York City prior to returning to North Carolina where she lived in Smithfield. She became known as the area's leading portrait painter and portrait photographer. She painted many rural landscapes across the state but was very taken by Ocracoke Island where she visited and painted many local scenes.