Working South: Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte

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Mary Whyte Working South Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte Foreword by Martha Severens The University of South Carolina Press © 2011 Mary Whyte Cloth and paperback editions published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2011 Ebook edition published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press, 2013 www.sc.edu/uscpress 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Library of Congress has cataloged the print editions as follows: Whyte, Mary. Working South : paintings and sketches / by Mary Whyte ; foreword by Martha Severens. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-57003-966-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-57003-967-6 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Whyte, Mary—Themes, motives. 2. Working class in art. 3. Southern States—In art. I. Title. ND1839.W49A4 2011 759.13—dc22 2010025224 frontispiece: Spinner, detail. Textile mill worker, Gaffney, S.C. ISBN 978-1-61117-201-0 (ebook) For Smitty “Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” Samuel Butler (1835–1902), The Way of All Flesh ...