“”S is for Sweet Sewanee Sisters Sitting in Secessionist Solidarity” “
Pencil, pastel, & watercolor. 2015 or so.
This is another entry in my as-yet uncompleted “A Southern Alphabet”. The two ladies are, indeed, the once-revered daughters of Confederate General E. Kirby-Smith, of Sewanee, TN….a founding father of The University of the South (my alma mater).
General Kirby-Smith would be among those inconvenient aspects of the University’s history which, these days, they strenuously attempt to de-emphasize (to say the least). My grumpy assumption is that the university, in its attempts to be everything to everyone, will end up being nothing in particular to anyone. Good luck at all that, etcetera….
Every time this picture has been posted publicly, I’ve had a hundred or so outraged responses….which only confirms my suspicion that an alarming number of folks are of average or below-average intelligence. They certainly don’t have any sense of irony. So (once again), good luck to them and their supposedly enlightened selves/perspectives.
The text reads: “S is for Sweet Sewanee Sisters, Sitting (Southern Style!) in Secessionist Solidarity, albeit with Serious breastical Symmetry issues. Portrait of 2/6ths of the daughters of Confederate General, E. Kirby Smith”
Pencil, pastel, & watercolor. 2015 or so.
This is another entry in my as-yet uncompleted “A Southern Alphabet”. The two ladies are, indeed, the once-revered daughters of Confederate General E. Kirby-Smith, of Sewanee, TN….a founding father of The University of the South (my alma mater).
General Kirby-Smith would be among those inconvenient aspects of the University’s history which, these days, they strenuously attempt to de-emphasize (to say the least). My grumpy assumption is that the university, in its attempts to be everything to everyone, will end up being nothing in particular to anyone. Good luck at all that, etcetera….
Every time this picture has been posted publicly, I’ve had a hundred or so outraged responses….which only confirms my suspicion that an alarming number of folks are of average or below-average intelligence. They certainly don’t have any sense of irony. So (once again), good luck to them and their supposedly enlightened selves/perspectives.
The text reads: “S is for Sweet Sewanee Sisters, Sitting (Southern Style!) in Secessionist Solidarity, albeit with Serious breastical Symmetry issues. Portrait of 2/6ths of the daughters of Confederate General, E. Kirby Smith”
pencil, watercolor, and oil pencil
12″x14″
2014