Jericho: The South Beheld by Hubert Shuptrine and James Dickey

Jericho: The South Beheld by Hubert Shuptrine and James Dickey

Watercolors by Hubert Shuptrine and text by James Dickey present the South as Jericho, "the first city of the Promised Land: the city that fell to Joshua." This book from 1977 holds some stunning artworks and creative writing.

This book has some visible wear and tear on the paper cover, however all of the pages are in pristine condition and look nearly brand new! We have drastically lowered the price due to the cover damage.

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About the creators:
James Lafayette Dickey, an American poet and novelist, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1923. He is perhaps best known for Deliverance, his novel about four suburban men struggling to survive a canoe trip gone awry, which was made into a popular movie of the same title, starring Burt Reynolds. Dickey also published several volumes of poetry that are marked by his portrayal of a world in conflict. His collected poems (1942-1992) were published under the title The Whole Motion in 1992. After serving as a pilot during World War II, Dickey earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University. He taught at several universities and worked as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress from 1966 to 1968. He died in 1996.

Hubert Shuptrine (1936-2006) exhibited a love for the subjects he painted—an approach to art he named “realizations”—and his subjectivism communicated to viewers far beyond his native South. His nationally recognized watercolors and oils are in over 30 leading museums and institutions, including the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. For a complete artist biography, please click HERE. Since his passing in 2006, the demand for his paintings has increased, as each piece uniquely reflects Shuptrine’s love for painting and for those he painted. Hubert’s son Alan Shuptrine is also a nationally renowned watercolorist now in several museums. His grandson, Ben Shuptrine is following in their footsteps. Hubert Shuptrine works in watercolor with a beautiful sense of the sheer, living consequentiality of his subject and with a skill that makes every picture an event to be reckoned with. He is a Beholder. He is able to enter into objects and people and places with the sense of these things entering into him. —James Dickey, Jericho: The South Beheld. He didn’t just paint what he saw, but what he saw within…and what a difference! His words could form a painting-his paintings could speak the words. He was more than an artist, more than a chronicler of the dying South-he was a minister to us all, through his art. We need only to study one of his paintings or turn the pages of his books to feel his religious experience. —Alan Shuptrine