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Article: Southern exposure: a current career survey of works in diverse mediums by William Christenberry shows him continually revisiting sites in his native Alabama, a lifelong artistic obsession.(Biography)
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- Art in America
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- May 1, 2007
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William Christenberry is best known as a photographer of the vernacular South--country churches, graves, signs, shacks and tumbledown buildings whose slow decline he records in series of photographs taken over a period of years, sometimes decades. But the first work a visitor encounters upon entering the exhibition "Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is a sculpture, constructed from illustration board and wood, in the form of a simple white church that sits on a pedestal covered in red Alabama dirt. The 44 1/2-inch-tall sculpture, dated 1974-75, resembles a scaled-down model, with well-defined wooden shingles and a pair ...
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October 29, 2000 ;
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... ... the center of the exhibit, William Christenberry Jr.--a professor at the Corcoran ... images are stark, distant, wistful. Christenberry's quiet, ghostly work is surrounded ... pencil-on-wood drawing of a mule by Christenberry's grandfather, Daniel K. Christenberry ...
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