In the 1970s and 1980s, the paintings of Manning Williams depicted Charleston city scenes, suburban landscapes, roadways, friends, and family. As David Houston writes in Manning Williams: Reinventing Narrative Painting, that “body of work . . . may be understood as narratives of a larger community in the context of place and time” (page x). Among these paintings is one that is, arguably, Williams’s masterpiece, Jack Island Trials (1983–1985). Houston writes that its sheer size and compositional complexity identify it as “a culmination of…

Beginning January 12 and continuing through February 11, in recognition of Black History Month, we are presenting the works of a number of area artists of color. We urge you to visit this show which will feature an amazing range of works from folk art to digital paintings, sculpture, stained glass and photography by these very talented artists: Robert Atkins Henry Drakeford Bruce Ingram Carmen Moses Stacy O’Sullivan Salonika Rhyne Andreas Smith Rodney Thomas Marcelis Thompson Baruti Tucker Stephanie Willingham…

Atlanta-born Jack Stewart (1926–2005) began private art lessons when he was seven. By age nine, he was taking classes at the High Museum School of Art, and by the time he was in his teens he was apprenticed to the sculptor and painter Steffen Thomas. He served as an infantryman during World War II and saw combat in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war he earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at Yale University (where he studied with Josef Albers and Willem de Kooning), studied architecture…