The Knoxville Museum of Art will present Vision, Language, and Influence: Photographs of the South by Baldwin Lee, Walker Evans, and Eudora Welty from May 14 through August 1.
     Vision, Language, and Influence brings together for the first time the work of three photographers of the American South over a 50-year period.
     Walker Evans (1903-1976) is represented by incisive images of Alabama sharecroppers stemming from his epic collaboration with James Agee on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
     Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern writer and photographer who traveled across Mississippi in the 1930s and early 1940s taking photographs and documenting rural and small-town life in her home state.  
     Baldwin Lee (born 1951) is a professor of photography at the University of Tennessee, and a former assistant to Walker Evans.  Complementing the 50 or so works by Evans and Welty are more than 30 of Lee’s images of African-American life in the South taken during the 1980s with the support of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.  
      Vision, Language, and Influence was organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art in collaboration with Baldwin Lee.
      A members-only preview party is scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 13 which will include a gallery talk by Artist Baldwin Lee and Alexis Boylan, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Tennessee.
     The museum is located in downtown Knoxville at 1050 World’s Fair Park and is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.  
     For more information, contact Angela Thomas at (865) 934-2034 or go to www.knoxart.org.

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