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Be sure to also check out the South Carolina Art page for more about art styles and folk art.
Dave the Potter
David Drake lived in Edgefield as a slave and, after the Civil War, as a freed man who made distinctive stoneware pottery, often engraved with short poems or couplets.
Michael Francis Blake Photographs, 1912-1934
Two standing young women leaning on a boy, unidentified. Francis Blake Photographs, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.Come explore 117 photographs of men, women, and children taken between 1912-1934 by Blake who opened one of the first African-American photography studios in Charleston, S.C.
South Carolina Artists
Meet artists from every era of South Carolina history, as a colony through today.
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Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston (1670-1729)
First female professional artist in America
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Thomas Coram (1756-1811)
18th century landscape artist
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Charles Fraser (1782-1860)
Charleston artist who created over 500 miniature portrait paintings
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Maria Martin Bachman (1796-1863)
19th century natural history painter who worked with John Audubon
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Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876-1958)
Artist during the Charleston Renaissance known for her watercolors and woodblock prints
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Anna Heyward Taylor (1879-1956)
Artist active in the Charleston Renaissance who became well-known for her woodblock prints
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Elizabeth O'Neill Verner (1883-1979)
Major figure of the Charleston Renaissance.
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William Melton Halsey (1915-1999)
Modernist painter and sculpture who also was an influential art teacher in the state
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Jasper Johns (1930- )
Influential contemporary artist in the genres of Abstract Expressionism and Pop art.
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Blue Sky (1938- )
Contemporary painter and sculptor known for his large murals and public sculptures
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Jonathan Green (1955- )
Contemporary African-American painter and printmaker
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