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Contributors

Angela D. Mack snapshot Angela D. Mack
Deputy director for curatorial affairs,
Gibbes Museum of Art
Charleston SC
    Angela D. Mack has written and produced numerous exhibition catalogs, including Edward Hopper in Charleston, Framing a Vision: Works by Linda Fantuzzo and Manning Williams, Henry Benbridge (1743-1812): Charleston Portrait Painter, In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad, 1740-1860, Corrie McCallum: A Life in Art and Merton Simpson: The Journey of an Artist. Her essay in the 2001 publication Charleston in My Time: The Paintings of West Fraser is the first comprehensive survey of landscape painting in South Carolina.
     


Maurie D. McInnis snapshot Maurie D. McInnis
Director of American Studies and
associate professor of Art History
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA
    Maurie D. McInnis is a contributing author for the catalog and guest curator for Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art at the University of Virginia Art Museum (Charlottesville, VA). She is also author of The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston (2005).
     


Alexis L. Boylan Alexis L. Boylan
Coeditor, Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art
    She is currently working on two book projects: one about the Ashcan School and another about the contemporary artist Thomas Kinkade.
     


Stephen G. Hoffius Coeditor, Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art
    Stephen G. Hoffius is an independent writer and editor. The former director of publications for the South Carolina Historical Society, has now edited three books for the Gibbes Museum of Art. As an author, he is finishing books on the great Charleston earthquake of 1886 (with Susan Millar Williams) and on Northerners who have bought coastal South Carolina plantations (with Robert B. Cuthbert).