Southern Girl

Southern Girl is moving….to The Oxford American. Stay tuned for details.

Above: Warren Harold, Houston.

The legendary pitcher from Alabama, Satchel Paige, outside a pool hall in Harlem in 1941 by George Strock. From the International Center of Photography collection.

Jessica Lange’s photography exhibition opens at A Gallery for Fine Photography in New Orleans tomorrow. Get in line early: the actress/artist will be signing copies of her books at 1pm and mingling with admirers at the 5pm reception.

Will Govus just graduated from high school in Georgia.

Happy 10th Birthday to the Ogden Museum in New Orleans!
“Eph and Ed (on Their Car)” (1983) by Milly Moorhead.

“Jettisoned” by Anthony Goicolea, whose exhibition at Postmasters Gallery, Once Removed, explores his Cuban heritage.

From a vintage magazine called The Delta Review, November 1967. “Dove hunting down South…favorite sport for crisp autumn days. Mrs. B. Lee Mallory III wears an Evan Picone plaid pants suit in tones of rust, green, brown and yellow.”

“Jeunesse Doree” (1934) by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, from the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia.

Dorette, above (and below), claims that the artist asked her to pluck out her eyebrows so he could “draw them on, one by one, to make the line he most wanted.” Five years later, Dorette and Brockhurst married; but “disputes and unhappy differences” would lead to a legal separation.

Dorette went back to using her birth name of Kathleen and told the media: “I don’t think I had a personality of my own, or if I had, I did not know what it was. I was simply material.”

(From The Eternal Masquerade exhibition catalogue, Georgia Museum of Art)

The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia, is closed till 2011, but they have a large collection of portraits by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, including this print, “Adolescence (Kathleen Nancy Woodward)” (1932). The young woman, whom Brockhurst renamed Dorette, became his muse at the age of sixteen and later his second wife. Brockhurst, a Brit relocated to the US, called himself “the painter of beautiful women.”

Andras Bality, Richmond.

Sugarcane fire, Bayou Teche, Louisiana, by Larry Schwarm.

Tamara Lichtenstein, Houston.

“Sand Tan” by Emma Amos, who was born and raised in Atlanta.

Sara La, Nashville. The artist went to Savannah College of Art & Design, which usually
signals talent. In her statement, she says: “I make paintings that I understand emotionally,
but rationally cannot explain.”

Libbie Allen, New Orleans. For more, visit her website. Like me, Allen came from up
North. She has a photograph—a self-portrait, I think—titled “Southern Girl” here.