Gullah Images: The Art of Jonathan Green

by Jonathan Green (Illustrator), Pat Conroy (Foreword by)

This is a collection of 180 images from artist Jonathan Green. He paints the world of his childhood amongst the Gullah people of the South Carolina barrier islands. He reveals an awareness of the social and natural environments in which we live, elevating the everyday and celebrating the social.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

216 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1996

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read in preparation for Living Legacy Pilgrimage to Low Country of South Carolina and Georgia.

Informative introductory essays about the Low Country region and the artist. I want to find out whether his work is on exhibit anywhere. Also, I would like to see his later work.

Beautiful photographs of the colorful paintings of Jonathan Green, including the cover art used on Emory Campbell's book Gullah Cultural Legacies.

[Maryanne Cinelli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love Jonathan's art and story

[Tara · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first saw Jonathan Green's work on a card I purchased for my mother in 1998. His artwork vividly captures African-Americans dancing, working and worshipping. I almost feel the breeze that teases the dress of the woman as she walks torwards her house in "Homecoming." I highly recommend "Gullah Images" as a wonderful introduction to a talented artist from South Carolina.

[Aspasia · Rating 4 out of 5]

When my sisters were little they loved a show on Nickelodeon called "Gullah Gullah Island." A few years later when my mom and I were reading about some of South Carolina's coastal islands, we found out that the Gullah subculture actually exists!