Billy Morrow Jackson: Interpretations of Time and Light (Visions of Illinois)

Here are nearly a hundred
stunning reproductions (three-quarters in full color) of many of the Illinois
prairie landscapes, as well as the cityscapes, townscapes, interior views,
works with social and political themes, and murals done by Jackson over
the past forty years, all of them reflecting his fascination with the
subtle yet pervasive impact of time and light on art and on life.
Howard Wooden surveys Jackson's
stylistic and technical developments as an artist, beginning with his
early black-and-white woodblock prints executed in Mexico in 1949 and
1950 and ending with three large murals painted in the late 1980s, one
of which adorns the Illinois State Capitol.
Jackson's work, which hangs
in the National Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, and
the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and in many other museums
across America, feature images derived, but not copied, from reality.
A brief essay by Jackson on his painting technique appears in an appendix.