02252cam a2200409 i 4500 512399126 TxGeo 20210827120000.0 201026s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020047749 9781635576597 hbk. 1635576598 hbk. (OCoLC)1191194941 TxGeo rda Rembert, Winfred. Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South / Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson. Artist's memoir of the Jim Crow. ©2021. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. xvi, 284 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movement, endured political violence, survived a lynching, and spent seven years in prison on a chain gang. Years later, seeking a fresh start at the age of 52, he discovered his gift and vision as an artist, and using leather tooling skills he learned in prison, started etching and painting scenes from his youth. Rembert's work has been exhibited at museums and galleries across the country, profiled in the New York Times and more ... In [this book], he relates his life in prose and paintings--vivid, confrontational, revelatory, complex scenes from the cotton fields and chain gangs of the segregated south to the churches and night clubs of the urban north"-- Provided by publisher. 20210924. Rembert, Winfred. African American painters Georgia Biography. Outsider artists United States Biography. Georgia Biography. Autobiographies. Kelly, Erin, 1976-, author. Stevenson, Bryan, author of foreword. QS5