Orlando Museum of Art

Southernmost Art and Literary Portraits:
Photographs of 50 Internationally Noted Artists and Writers in Florida by Jimm Roberts

In the 1980s and 1990s, Orlando based portrait photographer Jimm Roberts traveled throughout Florida to meet, photograph and interview prominent artists and writers then living in the state. The photographs are sensitive, engaging images of these exceptional individuals that often reveal telling qualities of their personality. With the rich tones of traditional black and white photography, Roberts captures his subjects in a variety of poses from formal to candid in the surroundings of their Florida homes and studios. The photographs along with quotes and Roberts’ stories of his encounters with his subjects have been compiled into an award winning book. Southernmost Art and Literary Portraits was published in 2005 by Mercer University Press, Macon Ga. The exhibition will include 80 photographs and a selection of original notes and letters by the artists and writers.

The artists include: Richard Anuszkiewicz, John Chamberlain, Duane Hanson, William King, Roy Lichtenstein, Conrad Marca-Relli, Jules Olitski, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Larry Poons, James Rosenquist, Syd Solomon, Rollie McKenna and Jerry N. Uelsmann.

The writers include: Edward Albee, Ann Beattie, John Malcolm Brinnin, Philip Burton, Philip Caputo, John Ciardi, Harry Crews, Annie Dillard, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Richard Eberhart, Dick Francis, Marilyn French, John Hersey, Carl Hiaasen, Evan Hunter (Ed McBain), Donald Justice, James Kirkwood, John Knowles, Elmore Leonard, Robert Ludlum, Alison Lurie, John D. MacDonald, Thomas McGuane, William Manchester, James Merrill, James A. Michener, Padgett Powell, Bob Shacochis, Wilfrid Sheed, Isaac B. Singer, Patrick D. Smith, Robert Stone, Peter Taylor, Richard Wilbur, Charles Willeford and Joy Williams.

Images:

• Jimm Roberts, Robert Rauschenberg, Captiva, 1987.
• Jimm Roberts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Coral Gables, 1988.
• Jimm Roberts, Carl Hiaasen, Plantation, 1990.
   

Event Pricing

• Admission: $8.00

Intended For

• Youth and Family
• Teachers