Elizabeth Spires
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One night in the early 1930s, William Edmondson, the son of former slaves and a janitor in Nashville, Tennessee, heard God speaking to him. And so he began to carve - tombstones, birdbaths, and stylized human figures, whose spirits seemed to emerge fully formed from the stone. Soon Edmondson's talents caught the eye of prominent members of the art world, and in 1937 he became the first black artist to have a solo exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art...