Author: Jackson, A.B.
Title: A.B. Jackson, Retrospective Exhibition : The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, October 16-December 6, 1981
Description: Norfolk, Virginia, The Chrysler Museum, 1981. Softcover. B+w illustrated glued wraps with brown text. (7) 8-55 pp. Chiefly b+w illustrations with some color. "Stylistically A. B. Jackson's work belongs to the fifties. Even though he matured in the early sixties, his closest artistic kin is Leonard Baskin, Jewish sculptor and printmaker, who has depended on the entire gamut of Western art from the Greeks to the Italians of the Renaissance and from Goya to the moderns to enable him to symbolize the suffering and nobility of man. His art is epic in its sweep and deadly serious in terms of its felt content. Although he has mined a less extensive realm of western art, Jackson could be considered the Negro Baskin of painting. While his subjects are not pagan - they are Christian or contemporary - he exhibits humanitarian ideals similar to Baskin's. He obviously intends his art to ennoble the very human and timeless aspects of a now passing group of Southern Negroes who are caught off-guard as they sit passively on their porches." - Robert C. Hobbs. Good, exlib with stickers on spine, back cover, inside rear cover. Stamps inside both covers. minor creasing and small rip on rear cover, small puncture through cover into some pages, page material in excellent reference condition.

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