Table of Contents:
  • Sponsors
  • Foreword / William S. Morris III
  • Preface and acknowledgments / Kevin Grogan
  • The Morris Museum of Art and southern studies / William R. Ferris
  • "The newest and brightest jewel" / Martha R. Severens
  • Selections from the Morris Museum of Art. The rice-bird / Mark Catesby ; Forked tail hawk / John Abbot ; The castle builder / Charles Bird King ; Portrait of Levi Fletcher / Thomas Sully ; Carolina parrot / John James Audubon ; Untitled / James Hamilton Shegogue ; Mount Vernon / Russell Smith ; Portrait of Western Berkeley Thomas and Emily Howard Thomas of Augusta, Georgia / George Cooke ; Crossing the ferry : scene on the Peedee / William Tylee Ranney ; River plantation / Thomas Addison Richards ; Toula Waterfalls / William C.A. Frerichs ; Floyd's command, Gauley Bridge, Virginia / William Dickinson Washington ; Surprise attack near Harper's Ferry / John Mooney ; The price of blood / Thomas Satterwhite Noble ; Bayou Teche / Meyer Straus ; Portrait of Thomy King / Nicola Marschall ; An abundance of fruit / Andrew John Henry Way ; Columbia welcoming the South back into the Union / Constantino Brumidi ; Young girl in interior / Gilbert Gaul ; Camp on the bayou / William Henry Buck ; Plantation portrait / William Aiken Walker ; Solitary pirogue by the bayou / Joseph Rusling Meeker ; Georgia landscape / Henry Ossawa Tanner ; Two magnolia blossoms in a glass vase / Martin Johnson Heade ; Candidates for the horse show / John Martin Tracy ; Portrait of Major Archibald Butt / Francis Davis Millet ; Morning on the pond / Julian Onderdonk ; Bayou St. John waterway / Ellsworth Woodward ; Pauline, a little friend of mine / Helen Maria Turner ; The genius of the canyon / Elliott Daingerfield ; Waterway in spring / Alice Ravenel Huger Smith ; The finish / Robert Wadsworth Grafton and Louis Oscar Griffith ; September / Charles Frederick Naegele ; Two girls in a field of flowers / Eliot Candee Clark ; Flower vendor, Charleston, South Carolina / Alfred Hutty ; Summer home--Biloxi / William Woodward ; By the arbor / Catherine Wiley ; Rainbow / Gari Melchers ; The yellow parasol / Louis L. Betts ; Green kimono / Christopher A.D. Murphy ; Untitled / Doris Ulmann ; Chehaw Combahee Plantation / Wilson Irvine ; Steam yacht Ramona / William O. Golding ; Georgia crackers / Pamela Vinton Ravenel ; Portrait--girl in red / Hattie Saussy ; Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas / Ben Shahn ; Trusty on a mule / Hale Woodruff ; Washing clothes in the east yard / Gladys Nelson Smith ; Star Pressing Club, Vicksburg, Mississippi / Walker Evans ; Hood's Chapel, Georgia / Margaret Bourke-White ; Bargain basement / Lamar Dodd ; From this earth / Lamar Dodd ; Ma Burnham, Conway, Arkansas / Dorothea Lange ; Abstraction / Will Henry Stevens ; Child of Negro sharecropper, near Marshall, Texas / Russell Lee ; Negro man going in Colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi / Marion Post Wolcott ; The last fall / Eugene Thomason ; Hoover and the flood / John Steuart Curry ; Avenue of oaks at Litchfield Plantation / Elizabeth O'Neill Verner ; William Edmondson, sculptor, Nashville / Edward Weston ; Ruins of Windsor / Eudora Welty ; Waiting for the bus at the Memphis terminal / Esther Bubley ; Georgia red clay / Nell Choate Jones ; Charleston doorway / Anthony Thieme ; Sharecropper / Marie Hull ; William Faulkner in the garden of his home, Oxford, Mississippi / Henri Cartier-Bresson ; I can't sleep / John McCrady ; Alexandria, Virginia / Berenice Abbott ; Ridge View, Virginia / A. Aubrey Bodine ; North Carolina, 1950 / Elliott Erwitt ; Light on the cylinders, number six / Clarence John Laughlin ; Play ball / Augusta Oelschig ; Abstraction / Paul Ninas ; Untitled / Ralph Eugene Meatyard ; Trolley in the plaza / Larry Connatser ; Untitled / Larry Connatser ; Untitled / Minnie Evans ; Knoxville / Danny Lyon ; Remembering the dead with flowers, Decoration Day / Clementine Hunter ; Cold mellons [sic] / Jack Leigh ; Salome (John the Baptist) / Romare Bearden ; Scent / Jasper Johns ; The artist in his studio / Frank Wright ; Mr. Bullock / William Entrekin ; Propeller / Nellie Mae Rowe ; Sometimes I feel like a blue dog / George Rodrigue ; Black crucifix with birds / Mose Tolliver ; Untitled / William Eggleston ; Col. Poole's Pig Hill of Fame / John Baeder ; Metamorphosis / William Halsey ; Inverse : open section / Cheryl Goldsleger ; Hurricane Hugo / Roger Brown ; Extreme southeast Georgia / Don Cooper ; The congregation / Jonathan Green ; Rock Hill textile plant / Edmund Lewandowski ; Doodle bugs / B.F. Perkins ; This is the Andrews family (Andrews family tree) / George Andrews ; Untitled / Clyde Connell ; The Bar-B-Q Inn, Greensboro, Alabama / William Christenberry ; The basement / Douglas Bourgeois ; Evening carnival / David C. Driskell ; Rebus 92-3 / Ida Kohlmeyer ; Composition 95-22 / Ida Kohlmeyer ; Preacher / Benny Andrews ; Untitled / Sam Gilliam ; The moment of truth / Philip Morsberger ; The mill / Edward Rice ; 923 Telfair / Edward Rice ; Presidential portrait bust series / Bill Tait ; Elvis-at-3 is-a-angel to me / Howard Finster ; Two red shacks / Beverly Buchanan ; August allegory (Anagrams) / Robert Rauschenberg ; Ocoee / Art Rosenbaum ; Field burning no. 1 / Jack Spencer ; Field burning no. 2 / Jack Spencer ; Gospel sing / Dale Kennington ; Reunion table / Eldridge Bagley ; The art of drawing / Bo Bartlett ; Cotton barn at Beech Island, S.C. / Wolf Kahn ; Deep South (untitled) (Emmett Till river bank) / Sally Mann ; Does black rub off? / Emma Amos ; Charm / Anita Huffington ; South Boundary / Kesler Woodward ; Church of Francisco / William H. Clarke ; Zelphea Adams, St. Gabriel, Louisiana / Deborah Luster ; Ronny "Ron Jon" Holmes, Transylvania, Louisiana / Deborah Luster ; Cassondra Levert, St. Gabriel, Louisiana / Deborah Luster ; Angola, Louisiana / Deborah Luster ; Green Augusta / Robert Stackhouse ; Blue Augusta / Robert Stackhouse ; Exhausted tawdry buns / Stephen Rolfe Powell ; Untitled / Radcliffe Bailey ; Adler's, Selma, Alabama / Jerry Siegel ; Washington Street Market, Selma, Alabama / Jerry Siegel ; Nkisi / Whitfield Lovell ; Untitled / Lorenzo Scott ; What dogs dream : the ultimate, eternal, endless hunt / William Dunlap ; Orchardhouse / Tom Nakashima ; Toucans / Hunt Slonem ; Spring tide / Brian Rutenberg
  • Contributors [of essays about the artworks]. Judith H. Bonner ; Louise Keith Claussen ; Harry DeLorme, Jr. ; William R. Ferris ; Kevin Grogan ; Shawnya L. Harris ; David W. Houston ; Alexander Moore ; Martha R. Severens ; William F. Stapp ; Jay Williams.