Addie James
Colors, 2002
Addie James
Colors, 2002
Acrylic on canvas
2002.002.001
Addie James, a Statesville native, revealed the world around her through her folk-art paintings. During her life she experienced segregation and economic challenges, but this did not deter her from creating joyful paintings that employed the use of brilliant colors to celebrate the vivacity of everyday life. Her creative output made an indelible mark on the artistic legacy of the region, and today her paintings reside in the collections of several museums including Iredell Museums in Statesville and the Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory.
Colors, 2002
Acrylic on canvas
2002.002.001
Addie James, a Statesville native, revealed the world around her through her folk-art paintings. During her life she experienced segregation and economic challenges, but this did not deter her from creating joyful paintings that employed the use of brilliant colors to celebrate the vivacity of everyday life. Her creative output made an indelible mark on the artistic legacy of the region, and today her paintings reside in the collections of several museums including Iredell Museums in Statesville and the Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory.
McKendree Long
George Olszewski, c.1948
McKendree Long
George Olszewski, c.1948
Oil on canvas
1998.013.001
Statesville native McKendree Long (1888-1976), sometimes referred to as The Picture Painter of the Apocalypse, was an American painter and a minister. After attending Davidson College, in Davidson, North Carolina, Long went to New York to study painting at the Art Students League and Europe to continue his painting studies. He enlisted and fought in WWI and after he traded his painting life for the life of a minister. He later returned to painting, the content of which was often biblical surrealism.
McKendree Long is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Statesville, NC.
George Olszewski, c.1948
Oil on canvas
1998.013.001
Statesville native McKendree Long (1888-1976), sometimes referred to as The Picture Painter of the Apocalypse, was an American painter and a minister. After attending Davidson College, in Davidson, North Carolina, Long went to New York to study painting at the Art Students League and Europe to continue his painting studies. He enlisted and fought in WWI and after he traded his painting life for the life of a minister. He later returned to painting, the content of which was often biblical surrealism.
McKendree Long is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Statesville, NC.