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Jasper Johns - "Flag." Photograph by flickr user youngdoo.Meet artists who are working today on both traditional forms of art and new styles.

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Jasper Johns (1930- )

Jasper Johns continues to be an influential contemporary artist in the genres of Abstract Expressionism and Pop art.

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South Carolina Artists by Era

Colonization & Revolution

• Thomas Coram (1756-1811)
  18th century landscape artist
• Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston (1670-1729)
  The first female professional artist in America
  • Portrait by Henrietta Johnston

Expansion & Reform

• Maria Martin Bachman (1796-1863)
  19th century natural history painter who worked with John Audubon
  • Audubon in Charleston
• Henry Brintnell Bounetheau (1797-1877)
  19th century Charleston miniaturist
  • Miniature of General George Washington
• Charles Fraser (1782-1860)
  Charleston artist who created over 500 miniature portrait paintings
  • Portrait of Dr Joseph Glover
• Charlotte Scarbrough Taylor (1806-1861)
  Naturalist and entomologist who grew up in Savannah, GA and South Carolina

Civil War through WWI

• Edwin Augustus Harleston (1882-1931)
  African-American portrait painter and businessman from Charleston
• Elise Forrest Harleston (1891-1970)
  South Carolina’s first African-American female photographer
• Alfred Hutty (1878-1958)
  Painter during the Charleston Renaissance who worked in etching, oil, and watercolor
• Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876-1958)
  Artist during the Charleston Renaissance known for her watercolors and woodblock prints
  • Additional Biography
• Anna Heyward Taylor (1879-1956)
  Artist active in the Charleston Renaissance who became well-known for her woodblock prints
  • Art by Anna Heyward Taylor
• Elizabeth O’Neill Verner (1883-1979)
  Major figure of the Charleston Renaissance
  • Two sketches
• William Aiken Walker (1838-1921)
  Painter who featured rural farm and plantation scenes
• Bayard Wootten (1875-1959)
  Pioneer woman photographer from North Carolina who also worked in South Carolina
  • SC Photographs by Bayard Wootten

Depression & WWII

• William Melton Halsey (1915-1999)
  Modernist painter and sculpture who also was an influential art teacher in the state
  • Search by William Halsey
  • William Halsey-South Carolina
  • Additional Biography
• William H. Johnson (1901-1970)
  Artist of “primitive” or “folk” style from Florence, SC
  • Early Morning Work
  • Art Class
• Anna Hyatt Huntington
  A sculpturist from New England who co-founded Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, SC with her husband.
  • Interview with Anna Hyatt Huntington

  Post-WWII & Contemporary

  • Blue Sky (1938-)
    Contemporary painter and sculptor known for his large murals and public sculptures
  • Tarleton Blackwell (1956-)
    Native of Manning, SC who creates lively scenes of Southern rural life
    • The Hog Series
  • Jonathan Green (1955- )
    Contemporary African-American painter and printmaker
  • Jasper Johns (1930- )
    Influential contemporary artist in the genres of Abstract Expressionism and Pop art
  • Merton Simpson (1928-)
    African-American artist from Charleston who has also become a preeminent dealer of African art