The Life and Work of Ernest A. Pickup

Sunday, May 2
2:00 p.m.
Free Seminar

Please join us for an Exhibition of Wood Engravings and a Book Signing in celebration of the publication of The Life and Work of Ernest A. Pickup by Beverly P. St. John and Gary A. Webb.

Ernest A. Pickup (1887-1970) was one of Nashville's first commercial artists. He produced thousands of illustrations and commercial designs throughout a career that spanned over fifty years. Today he is best remembered for the fine quality black and white woodblock prints he produced during the Depression years of the 1930s. Inspired by Thomas Hart Benton and other exponents of the Regionalism movement, his prints reflect historic places of interest in Nashville and rural scenes of nature in and around his home in Brentwood. He exhibited nationally throughout the 1930s and in 1937 one of his prints was selected by the Society of American Etchers for inclusion in a tour of American prints in Europe. Recently his work was included in print exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art (2007) and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Alabama (2008). No registration necessary!