William McCullough, Southern Painter, in conversation with William Baldwin, Southern Writer

The History Press, Release Date May 18th, 2006

With an artistic appreciation for the world surrounding him that springs forth from each inspired brushstroke, Southern realist painter William McCullough has produced a truly remarkable body of work in his celebrated forty-year career.  From a stately stand of plantation oaks awash in the stark light of dusk to the weathered boards of a Charleston single house shaded by palmettos, McCullough captures as no one else the quiet grandeur of his diverse subjects.   

This enthralling new book features an extraordinary selection of McCullough's work, coupled with a conversation between the Southern artist and Southern writer William Baldwin--two of the most creative contemporary Southern minds.  Differing in medium but strikingly similar in perspective and approach, these two keepers of a region's artistic tradition offer unparalleled insight into the dynamic of the South.             

"While the so-called post-modernist heirs of the modernists continue to pursue novelty, realists such as William McCullough would prefer to remind us of the extraordinary beauty of light on the side of a house. In a time  when the survival of this lovely little blue planet has come into question, this is not an insignificant thing." 

--Bradford Collins, PhD, Professor of Art History, The University of South Carolina.

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William McCullough is a true Southern talent and authentic observer and chronicler of culture and place; painting faithfully without gimmick or pretense, he can translate the commonplace into painted objects called fine art.

- West Fraser, 2006

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