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Shrimp Boats

Maltby Sykes

1911-1992

Shrimp Boats

Oil on masonite

36 in x 47 7/8 in

1953

Now On View:

George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics, Spartanburg, SC

As Published In:

Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century, 2023

As Exhibited In:

Far Out, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, October 1, 2025–January 3, 2026

Southern/Modern: 1913-1955, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, July 1, 2023–February 1, 2025, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, January 25–April 28, 2024, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, July 14–September 29, 2024, Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, October 25, 2024–February 2, 2025

Surrounded by Forms: Abstracted Scenes from the Johnson Collection, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, January 18–April 8, 2023

What Lies Beneath: Masonite and American Art of the 20th Century, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS, July 15–December 15, 2019

Behind the Lines: Artist-Soldiers in the Johnson Collection, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, July 10–September 10, 2014

This is a Different Place: Works of Southern Modernism from the Johnson Collection, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, April 3–May 28, 2009

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