Rembert Winfred 1945 2021 (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st ed. color illustrations, 117p. Softcover in original wrapper. 31 cm. Foreword by Michael Botwinick. Essays by Irma Watkins-Owens and Clifton Watson, Roger Panetta, Ellen Keiter and Bartholomew Bland. There is even a section titled "Works in Amazing Grace, with Reminiscences by Winfred Rembert in Conversation with His Friend Philip McBlain." Catalog for an exhibition at Hudson River Museum Jan. 21-May 6, 2012 after which it traveled to at least six other museums and Galleries including Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama. There was no hardcover edition. Now hard to find.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd printing. color illustrations, 40p. Pictorial hardcover. dj. 26 cm. An attractive children's book. Illustrated by eleven of Rembert's paintings on leather. Also features a poem ("Don't Hold Me Back") by Nikki Giovanni. Glued not stitched by a Peruvian printer so preserving the binding suggests care in handling and opening. This book is long out of print. Rembert, a self-taught African American artist who was born and raised in Southwestern Georgia, used these pictures and the accompanying text to share his recollections of his difficult early years growing up in Southwestern Georgia. If you have never seen a Rembert painting, this book introduces you to a remarkable talent who displayed some of his paintings on the walls of our office from the time he started producing his wonderful art in 1997 until his death 24 years later.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st ed. some color photos, 24 unnumbered interior page plus softcover wrapper. 26 cm. The 2015 dinner celebrated the previous year's reform and advocacy work by EJI and honored Winfred Rembert and Piper Kiernan as formerly incarcerated persons who had achieved remarkable success since leaving prison. A portion of Rembert's first "All Me" picture was illustrated in full color on the memorable front cover. This program contains full-page biographical information for each of the honorees. Bryan Stevenson, the founder and Executive Director of EJI, wrote the Foreword to "Chasing me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South" by Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly which was awarded the 2022 Pulitizer Prize in Biography. Stevenson's Foreword to the book devotes two of its last paragraphs to Winfred's attendance and loving remarks about his wife Patsy at this dinner.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st ed. color illustrations, 40p. Pictorial hardcover. dj. 26 cm. An attractive children's book. Illustrated by eleven of Rembert's paintings on leather. Also features a poem ("Don't Hold Me Back") by Nikki Giovanni. Glued not stitched by a Peruvian printer so preserving its condition suggests care in handling and opening. This book is long out of print. Rembert, a self-taught African American artist who was born and raised in Southwestern Georgia, used these pictures and the accompanying text to share his recollections of his difficult early years growing up in Southwestern Georgia. If you have never seen a Rembert painting, this book introduces you to a remarkable talent who displayed some of his paintings on the walls of our office from the time he started producing his wonderful art in 1997 until his death 24 years later. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st ed. color illustrations, 40p. Pictorial hardcover. dj. 26 cm. INSCRIBED by Rembert on the title-page ("To Charlie and Charlotte from Winfred Rembert 11-23-03 enjoy this book"). An attractive children's book. Illustrated by eleven of Rembert's paintings on leather. Also features a poem ("Don't Hold Me Back") by Nikki Giovanni. Glued not stitched by a Peruvian printer so preserving its condition suggests care in handling and opening. This book is long out of print. Rembert, a self-taught African American artist who was born and raised in Southwestern Georgia, used these pictures and the accompanying text to share his recollections of his difficult early years growing up in Southwestern Georgia. If you have never seen a Rembert painting, this book introduces you to a remarkable talent who displayed some of his paintings on the walls of our office from the time he started producing his wonderful art in 1997 until his death 24 years later. Signed.…