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Building a Legacy: The Vibrant Vision Collection of Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman

August 21, 2020 - January 10, 2021

Gallery 8

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Over the past forty years, acclaimed artist Jonathan Green and his partner and studio director, Richard Weedman, have amassed an astonishing collection of nearly 1,300 paintings, sculpture, and works on paper. Building a Legacy: The Vibrant Vision Collection of Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman presents a selection of forty-nine works of art from this significant private collection, offering a rare glimpse at the couple’s aesthetic interests and the artistic inspiration behind Green’s own artwork.

Building a Legacy explores the themes of work, love, belonging, and spirituality. Works in the exhibition portray tender moments between a parent and child, struggles for racial equality, pride in ancestral heritage, and strength derived through personal faith. The collection also expands the traditional notion of American art and identity, embracing a Pan American approach that goes beyond the United States to include art and artists of African, Caribbean, and Latin American descent. This approach provides a broader look at our nation’s history and a better understanding of what it means to be American today. In addition to Green’s own work the collection highlights include works by artists such as, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White, David Driskell, Sam Gilliam, and Reynier Llanes.

This exhibition is sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Gibbes Museum Women’s Council, ArtMag, The Lowcountry Rice Project, Charleston (SC) Chapter, The Links, Inc., Charleston 350, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Jane Smith Turner Foundation, Bank of America, Kathryn Salmanowitz, Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Gaud, Jr., Dr. Kim Cliett Long, John M. Rivers, Jr. Foundation, David and Martie Adams, Jill and Richard Almeida, Charles and Sallie Duell, Jonathan Green Studios, LLC, Dr. Bernard and Denise Mansheim, The Red Piano Art Gallery, Rita L. Scott, and Leo and Vicki Williams.

Sponsors

  • BlueCross BlueShield South Carolina
  • Gibbes Museum Women's Council
  • Lowcountry Rice Culture Project
  • ArtMag
  • Charleston 350
  • Charleston (SC) Chapter, The Links, Inc.
  • Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
  • Bank of America