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Roosevelt

Etching on paper
Support size: 22 3/8 x 28 inches; Image size: 17 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches
2003

As exhibited in:
Beyond the Illustration, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 2024

Saunders was a proficient and creative printmaker and a distinguished professor, but even his mature works hearken back to his boyhood dream of drawing comics. As he once remarked of his early art interests, “I didn’t know what high art was, and I didn’t care. I loved the funny papers.” Saunders notably collaborated with William Faulkner to provide illustrations for the stories The Bear and Spotted Horses. As a dedicated storyteller, with a preference for etching, aquatint, and lithography, Saunders has created a body of work that embraces layered and sometimes symbolic imagery related to his experiences as a Southerner.

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