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Abraham Lincoln
pen and ink
8 x 10 on Bristol board
Nathan Bedford Forrest is one of the most interesting and vexing characters to come out of the Civil War. He was a soldier of uncommon courage and undoubted genius, but his history of slave-trading before the war and association with the Ku Klux Klan after the war — as well as his presence at the Ft. Pillow massacre — does little to endear him to the modern age. Yet he has defenders, many of whom are adamant about his symbolizing the best of the Confederacy.
I drew this pen and ink to accompany a review of a book by Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill titled The Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest on The Writing Wright.
I did this drawing to accompany an short essay on the Writing Wright.
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Charles Dickens
pen and ink, 11 x 14 on Bristol Board
Jim Stovall
Copyright 2008 all rights reserved
This pen and ink drawing of John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost of the Confederate Army, was done to accompany a review of The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend by Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill. The review appears on the Writing Wright blog.
A short audio interview with author Ed Caudill is included with the review.
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John Singleton Mosby
pen and ink
11 x 14 Bristol board
Copyright 2008 by Jim Stovall
(This image may not be reproduced in any form without permission.)
Just created a fan page for The Writing Wright on Facebook.
The Writing Wright is a book of essays, quotations and snippets about writing, the language, journalism and the writing life. The book is illustrated with the author’s pen and ink drawings.
Doing the fan page once wasn’t too hard. I’m sure when I do it again, it will be even simpler.
I loaded a few of the drawings that are in the book into the first photo album, and I’m going to take some screen shots of a few of the pages and put them in another album. I also wrote on the Wall and started a discussion thread.
Before long, I’ll figure out how to invite folks to become a fan. Probably won’t do that until ordering info comes through from Amazon.
Meanwhile, you can head over that way and see what’s up.
The “See Ruby Falls” barns are rightly famous because there were so many of them, and so many — even though faded — can still be seen. But take a drive through just about any rural area of America where 50-year-old farming structures are still standing, and you’ll find that barns pitched more than tourist attractions. A farmer could get a good paint job for the barn by agreeing to tout a product. For the advertiser, it was cheap. A little paint and a few hours of a painter’s time, and the advertiser could have a large billboard that would last a lifetime. You don’t see these too much any more, and the landscape is less interesting without them.
Mail Pouch barn
Price: $75
11 x 14, pen and ink and colored pencil, on Bristol board
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Bidgood Hall is a quiet giant of a building on the west side of the Quad at the University of Alabama. It is part of the business college complex and at any time of the day when the University is in session, it is covered with students. Rarely does it have a peaceful moment, as depicted in this pen and ink drawing.
This minimalist pen and ink drawing attempts to capture the building’s calm strength.
Price: $125
(This is an original piece, not a print.)
11 x 14, Pen and ink on Bristol board
Price: $125
(This is an original piece, not a print.)
Toumey Hall was constructed in 1888 and is currently the home of the Blount Undergraduate Initiative at the University of Alabama. For more than 70 years, from 1926 to 1999, it was the home of the University’s Army ROTC unit.
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