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September Issue 2001

McKissick Museum at USC in Columbia, SC, Shows Works by Boyd Saunders

Eighty works by artist Boyd Saunders will be on display at the University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum in Columbia, SC, through Oct. 28, 2001.

Boyd Saunders: Retro Spectus is a tribute to the USC art professor and his 30-year career at the university. The exhibit, representing three decades, features prints, paintings, drawings, watercolors and bronze sculpture. His prints are created by etching, carving or engraving images on metal plates or slabs of stones, from which multiple copies have been made.

Saunders, who recently retired, arrived at USC in 1965 to launch a printmaking program. Instead, the native Tennessean launched a career as a teacher and an artist who captures the spirit of Southern story-telling in the classroom and through his art.

His art, like illustrations to a story, captures familiar Southern images and everyday events. The result is powerful, yet intimate, and gives the viewer a glimpse into the Southern sense of place and identity.

Saunders is a graduate of Memphis State University and the University of Mississippi and also studied at the University of Alabama and the Bottega d' Arte Grafica in Florence, Italy. His prints and paintings have been exhibited and collected in museums and galleries throughout the world. Among his most notable works are Southern Cross/A Trilogy, illustrations for William Faulkner's Spotted Horses and The Aikenhead Collection.

As a printmaker, Saunders employs various methods, such as lithography, serigraphy and etching, including intaglio.

For more information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the museum at 803/777-7251 or visit the museum's website at (http://www.cla.sc.edu/MCKS/).

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