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Lot 1182
Seven Diverse Books on Art in the South
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include: A. B. Jackson: A Retrospective Exhibition (Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum, 1981), card covers (wear and soiling to covers, else good condition); Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Richmond: Virginia Museum, 1983), 4to, card covers (used, good condition); Southern Folk Art (Birmingham: Oxmoor House, 1985), Cynthia Elyce Rubin, ed., front flysheet inscribed Joseph Rowand, with dust jacket (very good condition); Mark Hewitt: Potter (Raleigh" NC State University, 1997), signed, card covers (crease to front cover, else fine condition); Ferris, William. The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013), with dust jacket (marks to jacket, else every fine condition);

A Southern Collection (Augusta: Morris Museum of Art, 1992), with dust jacket (marks and wear to jacket, else very good condition); Herb Jackson, Veronica's Veils (Charlotte: McColl Center for Visual Art, 2007), with dust jacket (very good condition);

Tallest 12-1/4 in.

From the Estate of the late Joseph D. Rowand, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Joe Rowand was instrumental in developing a contemporary art scene in North Carolina. After studying in New York City at Parsons, he brought the big city art feel to Chapel Hill, North Carolina when he opened Somerhill Gallery in 1972. His gallery served as an epicenter for collectors and artists to gather and grow for over thirty years.