The show at the Greenville County Museum of Fine Arts Antiques, Fine Art and Design Weekend October 17 through October 20 was very successful. We hope to return next year with all new pieces for sale. Our next show will be the DC Big Flea the first weekend in January 2025 followed by the Wilmington Show in February and the Maison Beaufort Show (South Carolina) in early March. Please put these shows on your calendars and plan to attend.

Thank you for looking at Southern Fine Arts—a website dedicated to bringing you wonderful artwork depicting southern scenes of the past.  Paintings of the south help tell the story of this mysterious and wonderous place I have called home my entire life.  The stories of the artists who made these images are likewise intriguing and captivating whether they were children of the south or just travelers passing through our region.  The many impressions left to us including pictures of a bowl of peaches, a mountain valley or a low-country swamp with Spanish Moss-draped live oaks show the diversity of this great place from the Gulf Coast to the Carolinas and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Although you will find works on my site by well-known southern artists, you will also find pieces by more regionally based painters who exhibited in their towns and states but not much beyond.  Many of these artists were well-educated from beyond the south but came home to act as teachers or cultural activists and dedicated their careers to furthering art education on a local level.  Their artwork is often harder to find because their activities reduced time for painting and thus, less output.  These are the artists I love to search for as they often produce the most heart-felt, emotional works and know their locales better than traveling artists.  So, please make sure you read the biographical information I have on each artist as you might learn something special about their plights.

I try to represent the broad spectrum of southern art from the 19th and 20th centuries, so please find categories covering landscapes, still life’s and portraits.  If you are in search of a particular artist, please let me know as my database of southern artists is extensive and I might be able to assist you in finding a work.  Please enjoy the works I have featured on the site and don’t hesitate to e-mail with questions or comments and let me end with a quote from the famed southern regionalist artist, Thomas Hart Benton on his understanding of the complexity and contradiction of the south:

Who knows the South?  It is a land of beauty and horror, of cultivation and refinement, laid over misery and degradation.  It is a land of tremendous contradictions . . . the South remains our romantic land.  It remains so because it is.  I have seen the red clay of Georgia reveal its color in the dawn, and the bayous of Louisiana glitter in magnolia-scented moonlight.  There are no crude facts about the South which can ever kill the romantic effect of these on my imagination.