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Fall1980 Volume6 Number3 Commission Receives Bee Sword

by Rodger E. Stroup

On July 21, 1861, Brigadier General Barnard Elliott Bee, a native South Carolinian, was mortally wounded dur­ ing the first Battle of Manassas. According to the account of his death in the Charleston Mercury two days later, "in his dying hand, on the field in which he fell, he grasped the sword which South Carolina had token pride in presenting him." With the assistance of an anonymous donor, the South Carolina Museum Commission recently acquired that sword for exhibit in the future State Museum. Barnard E. Bee was born in Charleston in 1823, the son of Colonel Barnard E. Bee and the grandson of Thomas Bee, the first federal judge of the state of South Carolina. In 1833 the Bee family moved to Pendleton where they main­ tained a residence until after the Civil War. After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1845, Bee received the rank of brevet second lieutenant. He was immediately ordered to Texas, where he served during the military occupation of the territory. During the Mexican War he participated in the battles of General Barnard E. Bee, CSA Palo Alto, Resaca de Ia Palma, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo (in sword does not reveal the wear which would occur in one which he was wounded), Contreras, Churubusco, normal day's use under battle conditions. Chepultepec and Garita de Belen. He later received the The history of presentation swords in the United States sword in recognition of his service in those actions. begins with the Revolution when the Continental Congress At the conclusion of the war with Mexico, Bee was authorized the purchase of swords for presentation to of­ assigned to various army posts on the frontier. By 1861 he ficers in recognition of their service to the American effort. had attained the rank of captain and was serving at Fort However, the practice did not really take hold until after Laramie in the Dakota Territory when he resigned to join the War of 1812, and it remained a popular form of recogni­ the Confederacy. Initially given the rank of major, Bee was tion for military heroes until it gradually died out after quickly promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the World War I. The years during and following the Civil War provisional army and was given command of the Third were the most prolific in the history of the American Brigade of the Army of the Shenandoah, under Brigadier presentation sword. General Joseph E. Johnston. At the first Battle of Manassas In the years following the Mexican War the South Caro­ Bee is credited with having given "Stonewall" Jackson his lina legislature commissioned at least seven presentation nickname. With Jackson's brigade under heavy fire from swords. Between 1847 and 1853 swords were presented to the Union forces, Bee remarked, "look at Jackson's Brigadier General Pierce Mason Butler, Brigadier General brigade! It stands there like a stone wall." After he was James Shields, Colonel A. H. Gladden, Colonel Benjamin wounded, Bee was carried from the battlefield to a small Huger, Brevet Captain Barnard E. Bee, Brevet Captain cabin nearby where he died the following morning. Even James Stuart and naval Captain Duncan N. Ingram. Of the though several contemporary accounts relate that Bee was seven, the location of the Butler, Shields, Gladden and Bee carrying the presentation sword at the time he was shot, it swords is known. While all four were ordered from the is doubtful that this is the case. Most likely this information Ames Manufacturing Company in Chicopee, Massachusetts, was propaganda, because a physical examination of the each weapon has distinct features. The Bee sword is the

News is published three times a year, in the winter, The South Carolina Museum Commission spring, and fall, by the South Carolina Museum Commission Guy F. lipscomb, Jr., Chairman ...... Columbia (At Lorge) and is edited by Overton G. Ganong. The Commission is a Mrs. Donald H. Burch ...... Cheraw (District 5) state agency established to plan, build, and operate a state Mrs. Jenkins Street Crayton ...... Columbia (At Lorge) museum of cultural history, natural history, science, and art. Mrs. Edward P. Guerard ...... Georgetown (District 6) Fall 1980 Volume 6 Number 3 Arthur Magill ...... Greenville (District 4) Mrs. John F. Rainey ...... Anderson (District 3) Cover photo: The hilt of the Bee presentation sword, sur­ Dr. leo F. Twiggs ...... Orangeburg (District 2) mounted by a bust of John C. Calhoun. (See story above.) David B. Verner ...... Charleston (District 1) 2 !-.;;cij';~... ~b:~..?F.... ~ - ·J;h~~ia·~~ft?;;;;;'.·~~l"".;-· •.!!'Y...... ~!':'.~·~ ..... I!!'f,.'?-.J~~-.-·-.~ ..... -~-.~ ...... 0 ~ · - ~~ ~~IA· 5'du... ~~~~:mt1'S»

latest of the group, having been authorized in 1853, and it panels are outlined and held in place with half-round strips exhibits several distinct variations from the others. of silver gilt (silver that has been gold plated). The pommel In 1853 the South Carolina General Assembly passed is a three-dimensional bust of John C. Calhoun in silver gilt. the following joint resolution: The blade is a standard steel militia-officer blade with a Resolved, That this General Assembly highly ap­ single fuller and still has the original engravings of leaves preciates the patriotic and meritorious conduct of her and military trophies. The scabbard is gilt brass with silver gallant son, Brevet Captain BARNARD E. BEE, of the gilt mounts, which are elaborately cast with motifs of U.S.A., as discharged in the engagements at Palo Alto, shields and foliage. Between the upper and middle mounts Resaca de Ia Palma, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Con­ is a gold plate which contains the following inscription: treras, Churubusco, Chepultepec, and the city of Mex­ Presented by the State of South Carolina to her ico. Gallant Son, Brevet Capt. Barnard E. Bee of the U.S. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be re­ Army, in testimony of her high appreciation of his quested to provide a suitable sword and present the Patriotic and Meritorious Conduct as displayed at Palo same on behalf of this State as a testimonial of its Alto, Resaca de Ia Palma, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, estimation of that distinguished officer. Contreras, Churubusco, Chepultepec, and Garita de The sword that Governor John l. Manning ordered for Belin (sic)- during the War with Mexico. Barnard Bee is a standard militia style with an ornately After Bee's death in 1861 the sword was given to his decorated hilt. The cross guards consist of three square brother Hamilton Bee of San Antonio, Texas. Except for a strips that are intricately twisted and bound. The rococo­ period of 30 years, when it was inexplicably lost, the sword shaped shell guard is emblazoned with a silver palmetto has remained in the possession of the Bee family. Now, tree. The grip is composed of eight silver panels engraved after more than a century, this fine weapon is once more at with foliage, palmetto trees and a French style liberty cap, home in the Palmetto State. a feature common to all four of these swords. The silver Wanted: Campaign '80 Mementoes

In the fall of even-numbered years, the hearts of millions of Americans turn to thoughts of politics. With their hoopla, color, and pageantry, the biennial state and nation­ al political campaigns are as distinctively American as the proverbial apple pie. And they generate an enormous quantity of promotional paraphenalia- signs, placards, posters, ribbons, buttons, streamers, bizarre hats, and countless other items bearing the names and likenesses of favored candidates. Millions are produced, but nearly as many are thrown away as soon as the elections are decid­ ed. Such items are likely to become rare within a very few years.

~ The Museum Commission wants to keep a material rec­ ord of state-wide and national campaigns in South Carolina: the races for Governor, lieutenant Governor, U.S. Con­ gress, U. S. Senate, and President. We are also interested in acquiring interesting types of promotional material used in whatever campaign, as long as they relate to South Caro­ century ot change in the material culture of campaigning. lina. For this reason, we ask our readers to consider Needless to say, we are also interested in obtaining donating their buttons, ribbons, campaign hats, and what­ examples of this material from earlier elections. We would not to the State Museum. By starting now, we can in a hun­ appreciate any information our readers could give us on the dred years have an outstanding collection that epitomizes a whereabouts of such things. 3 Mash Cache Trashed

by Linda M. Knight

The still, as it looked before its dismantling. one was available for our collection," said Rodger Stroup, Moonshine is as traditionally Southern as grits and curator of history. " The agents allowed us to remove the fried chicken. All have inspired verse and prose and are still itself and various paddles and jugs. They destroyed truly the material of legend. There's a little difference everything remaining, including ten 55-gallon drums of though- grits and chicken are legal. moonshine ain't. But mash." legal or not, moonshine-making is part of our state's heri­ Moonshine-making takes a lot of time and more than a tage. It's been going on for generations and will probably little cunning, but the process itself is relatively simple. continue as long as folks have a hankering for corn Finely ground corn is mixed with water and sugar to make a squeezin's. mash. After " working," that is, fermenting, for a few days, Of course, distilling whiskey in the woods is frowned this mixture is boiled in the still. Steam billows into the cap upon by the federal government (a.k.a. " the feds" ) and the and down the long thump rod to the bottom of the thump state of South Carolina doesn't think much of it either. barrel. From there the steam bubbles up through cold Agents of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission do mash, eliminating much of the water from the vapor. The their best to discourage the practice. They recently dis­ remaining alcohol steam then travels through the short covered a still tucked away in Newberry County and seized thump rod to the copper worm, which coils down through a it on August 2. Standard operating procedure usually in­ drum of cold water called the flake stand. As the steam volves photographing the evidence, then smashing the still goes through this chilled tube it condenses into liquid - the and dumping the mash. Fortunately, the agent-in-charge moonshine. The liquor drips out through a funnel lined with offered the apparatus to the Museum Commission before it filtering material and into a jug. Ya-hoo! Mountain dew! was destroyed. Thanks to the ABC Commission, the future It is to be hoped that the Newberry moonshiner who South Carolina State Museum will have a genuine whiskey lost his still bears us no animosity but instead feels pride still (for exhibit purposes, of course). that he contributed to an interesting exhibit at the future " We've been hoping to acquire a still typical of South South Carolina State Museum. His still has already achieved Carolina for over a year. We had requested that the notoriety: it was exhibited at the State House during the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission let us know when month of September.

Short thump rod

- Worm An ABC Commission agent axes am Sketch by Lindo Knight the " great still bust." 4 The new program administrator for state-wide services is Linda M. Knight, who comes to us with four years' experi­ ence in museum work at the Historic Columbia Foundation. A native of Michigan, Mrs. Knight has lived in Columbia for the last nine years. She was graduated from Spring Valley High School and from the University of South Carolina, cum laude, with a degree in history. In 1976 she went to work for the HCF as curator of education. She was in charge of community education programs, school programs, volun­ teer recruitment and training, and public relations. Having worked for a small museum with a limited budget, she is Linda M. Knight I able to understand the problems of the many small and emerging museums in our state. Our administrative program also has two new faces: Darlene Barnes, who joined us last May as clerk-typist and Melvin L. Mills, who recently replaced Sharon H. Sargent as our accounting clerk. Ms. Barnes is a native of the Big Apple -New York City- but has lived in the Palmetto State for 20 years. She is a graduate of St. Stephen High School in St. y Stephen, South Carolina, and has an Associate degree in secretarial science from Columbia Junior College. She is single. Mr. Mills, who hails originally from St. Louis, Melvin l. Mills Elizabeth H. Simmons Missouri, is a recent arrival in South Carolina, having worked previously for the Department of the Navy and the Staff Changes Department of Justice in Washington, D. C. While handling The last few months have seen quite a few changes in fiscal affairs for our agency, he will be pursuing a our staff lineup. New people have moved into our state­ Bachelor's degree in accounting at USC. He and his wife wide services, accounting clerk, and clerk-typist positions, Debra have one child. and we have also filled a new position, that of public in­ Our new public information coordinator is Elizabeth H. formation coordinator. Simmons. Mrs. Simmons is also a transplanted South Caro­ Last August Hedy Hartman, who since 1977 had been linian, originally from Atlanta, Georgia, but she has lived in our program administrator for state-wide services, re­ Columbia for 11 years. A graduate of Stephens College in signed in order to return to school. She has headed into the another Columbia- Missouri- she has handled public re­ land of smoking volcanoes to enroll at the University of lations duties with a number of social, service and Washington, where she will be pursuing concurrent de­ charitable organizations. She will be in charge of planning grees, a Ph.D. in anthropology and a M.B.A. in the adminis­ and implementing public information programs to "get the tration of non-profit institutions. word out" to the people of the state about the work of the Ms. Hartman's work has been of great benefit to the Museum Commission and our plans for a State Museum. Museum Commission and to the museums of the state. We Mrs. Simmons is married to Pelham W. Simmons and is wish her well in her studies and expect her to go far in the the mother of three children. To all these new staff museum profession. members we wish a hearty welcome.

State South Carolina artists and artists who have done substan­ tial work in the state. Most of the purchases are chosen Art Collection from the juried Arts Commission Annual Exhibition. Any to Show South Carolina artist may submit works to the jurors for possible inclusion in that exhibition. Since the Acquisition 1' in Orangeburg Committee of the Arts Commission, which makes the selec­ tions, has collected a wide variety of media and styles, the collection represents a cross-section of artistic activity Art aficionados throughout the state, take heed. This in the Palmetto State over the last 13 years. fall a "happening" is planned at the new I. P. Stanback While the Arts Commission owns the works, the South Museum on the campus of South Carolina State College in Carolina Museum Commission is responsible for the care Orangeburg. The entire State Art Collection- 160 works and exhibiting of them. Nine of the South Carolina Museum by 120 artists- will be on exhibit, the first time the whole Commission traveling exhibitions consist of works from the collection has been displayed in one exhibition. The show State Art Collection divided by category: oils, acrylics, opens October 12 and will run through November 23. watercolors, mixed-media, graphics, sculpture, ceramics, The State Art Collection consists of works purchased by photographs, and recent accessions. Now, for the first time, the South Carolina Arts Commission from living native all the sections of the collection will be displayed together. 5 New Commission Member

We would like to extend a warm welcome to and now resides in Cheraw. She is a retired medical Gwynndolyne Burch, appointed in May to the South secretary who enjoys playing lots of golf in her free time. Carolina Museum Commission. She succeeds Marvin Trapp We are pleased to have Mrs. Burch as a Commission as the District 5 representative. member and look forward to working with her toward the Mrs. Burch is a native of Chesterfield, South Carolina, accomplishment of a State Museum for South Carolina.

Museum Shorts

In late October and early November, the Historic Columbia Founda­ cycles, nuclear waste, energy conservation, and alternate energy sources. tion will conduct its annual Christmas workshops, which teach the art of Two of the new exhibits that are particularly popular are the computerized making 19th-century Christmas decorations. The workshops are free for energy quiz and a home energy computer. Both provide thought-provoking members and cost $3.00 for non-members. Interested persons should con­ information on home energy use. Another exhibit, called " Pedaling Con­ tact the Foundation at 1616 Blanding Street, Columbia 29201 or call servation," employs a bicycle generator and other props to demonstrate (803) 252-7742. such energy concepts as work, conversion, efficiency, conservation, and The theme for the 1980 Christmas Candlelight Tours at Historic load management. Columbia Foundation is "Memories of Christmas." Each house will have an The Barnwell County Museum has announced a number of recent individual theme. At the Robert Mills House it w ill be " Here We Go a­ acquisitions. Last March the museum purchased an acrylic painting enti­ Wassailing! " The Hampton-Preston House will feature " A Christmas Feast" tled " Country Scene," by Jim Harrison of Denmark, S.C. The picture was and the Woodrow Wilson House " A Christmas Musicale." The tours will be painted in rural Barnwell County last year. The museum has also acquired held on December 2-5, 5 :30 to 8 :30p.m . Admission free. one of the South Carolina Watercolor Society selections, " Simkin's Seed Store on Sunday Morning," by Joe S. Jones, an artist from Bamberg, S. C. In Finally, the Foundation announces that Mrs. Salley Mcinerney has addition to the two paintings, the museum has obtained, on indefinite joined the staff as curator of education. Mrs. Mcinerney graduated from loan, a number of Indian artifacts, including two large Savannah burnished the University of the South in 1978 with a BA degree in political science bowls used as covers for burial urns. and a minor in studio art. She is a Columbia native and is married to Michael P. Mcinerney. coordinator of Madison Hall. Last summer the Fort Jackson Museum became the eighth Army museum to be certified by the Department of the Army's Center of Military The L. L. Smith Geology Museum at the McKissick Museums History. announces two new exhibits. One is a " hands-on" exhibit that gives The Center's Museum Certification Committee praised the Fort visitors a chance to handle a selection of fossils and minerals. Visitors in Jackson Museum for its high level of " professional excellence" in security, wheelchairs will find that the objects have been arranged with their needs storage and documentation procedures and recommended unanimously in m ind. On November 1 a .setond new exhibit will open, featuring the that the museum be certified. Burham Colburn collection of cut gemstones. The collection contains The Fort Jackson Museum has evolved from meager beginnings six outstanding examples of rubies, sapphires, opals, amethysts and garnets. years ago into a center for military and local history. Its holdings number The Preservation Society of Charleston will sponsor a special art more than 6,000 artifacts including materials related to Andrew Jackson, auction on Saturday, October 25, 1980, at the Carolina Yacht Club, 50 East uniforms and weaponry from the Civil War to Vietnam, and Fort Jackson Bay Street, Charleston. The silent auction will take place from 10 a .m . to newspapers dating back to 1917. 2 p.m ., followed by cocktails at 7 p.m. and the auction at 8. There will be a The Greenville County Museum of Art opened the new addition to $10.00 donation, applicable to any purchase. All proceeds will go toward the Museum School of Art on September 7th. The new facility, begun in preserving Charleston's architectural heritage. For additional in­ June of 1979, contains 15,000 square feet of floor space. It was designed formation please contact the Society at P. 0 . Box 521 , 147 King by the same architects who designed the Greenville County Museum of Street, Charleston 29402 or call (803) 723-4381 . Art, Craig, Gaulden & Davis of Greenville, S. C. Printmaking, drawing, The Bob Jones University Planetarium will present three shows painting, advertising design, weaving, photography, film making, over the next few months. In October and November the show will be the sculpture, pottery and metal design will all have their respective working " Stars of Autumn." "The Star of Wonder" follows in December and " The spaces within the school. Stars of Winter" in January. licensed by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, the Museum School of Art offers degrees in fine and applied arts. For more in­ The Florence Museum has a new exhibit aimed at the adolescents of formation contact the Museum School of Art Registrar at (803) 271-7570. the Pee Dee area. It is called " The Drug Scene" and was done in coopera­ tion with the local police department and sheriff's office. The cased ex hib­ Within the last year Brook green Gardens acquired four new pieces its discuss the drugs of the older generation along with those of the young of sculpture and commissioned the 1980 Membership Medal. The four and show what happens to people of all ages when they abuse drugs. works are "Otters Playing" and " Spring," by Joseph l. Boulton, "Resting Butterfly," carved in serpentine stone by Cleo Hartwig, and ''long Long Several tidbits come to us from the Columbia Museums of Art and Thoughts," a bronze by Charles Parks, who created the statue of James F. Science. The Weekend Gallery is now open in the " depot," the small brick Byrnes located on the State House grounds in Columbia. " Resting Butter­ building behind the museum. The purpose of the gallery is to offer Colum­ fly" received the Ell in P. Speyer Prize of the National Academy of Design in bia area artists a place to exhibit their work to the public on a regular 1979. basis. Artists may sign up for an exhibition either singly or as a group. Contact Nina Parris, chief curator, at the Museum. The subject of the 1980 Membership Medal is the Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, known as the " Swamp Fox." Granville W . Carter, the In October a new sales shop will open, featuring books, cards and current president of the National Sculpture Society, was commissioned by crafts. The Museums of Art and Science also announce new opening hours. the Trustees of Brookgreen Gardens to execute this work. The obverse of No more will the doors be closed on Mondays. The new times are 10 a .m . the medal depicts Marion on horseback leading his men. Below is a laurel to 5 p.m . Monday through Friday, 1 p.m . to 5 p.m . Saturday and Sunday. spray signifying his victories and on either side are his birth and death The Keowee-Toxaway VIsitors Center, marking its eleventh dates. Fulfilling a dual role, the reverse of the medal shows a fox in the anniversary this year, has restructured its tour "The Story of Energy" to swamp devouring a snake. This represents both the wildlife of the region include exhibits on a number of timely topics: the nuclear and coal fuel and the defeat of the British "snake" by Marion, the " Swamp Fox." 6 Thomas Walter Subiect of Fifth Museum Bulletin The South Carolina Museum Commission has recently the Flora Caroliniana. There is a list of plants Walter published the fifth booklet in its Museum Bulletin series. described and of those that presently bear his name. The Whereas the previous bulletins have dealt exclusively with list enables the reader to place Walter's work in the per­ natural history, the latest combines natural history with spective of 18th-century botanical science. history. Its subject is Thomas Walter, an 18th-century botan­ The bulletin is illustrated with maps and photographs ist in South Carolina. His major work, Flora Caroliniana, showing the location of Walter's garden, his grave, and a ., was the first taxonomy of South Carolina plants to use the number of the specimens he collected, which are now in the Linnean system of classification, the basis for modern British Museum of Natural History in London. descriptive biology. Despite Walter's signal contribution to Readers may purchase a copy of Mu.seum Bulletin No. 5 the development of botanical science in America, little has by sending $2.00 to the South Carolina Museum Commis­ 1 been known of his life. The author of the bulletin, David H. sion, P. 0. Box 11296, Columbia, S.C. 29211. Copies of Rembert, associate professor of botany at the University of previous bulletins are also available. South Carolina, has filled in some of the missing details. The South Carolina Museum Commission is pleased to From a variety of primary sources he has sketched a man have published this bulletin, which neatly merges the who, far from being a reclusive scientist, was very much in­ disciplines of history and natural history. In the future it volved in the society and politics of low-country South plans to continue publishing worthwhile papers dealing Carolina during the era of the American Revolution. with the social history, material culture, natural history, Rembert's main focus, however, is on Walter the botan­ science, and art of the Palmetto State. ist, and much of the bulletin is devoted to a discussion of

Naturescene Returns

Naturescene, the popular series of televised nature day. (Check your local listing for times.) walks guided by Rudy Mancke, curator of natural history for Last season Naturescene tallied two notable achieve­ the SCMC, returns to ETV this fall with an exciting array of ments. The segment entitled "Winter Beaches" was award­ new shows. The programs will take viewers to many differ­ ed a certificate of merit from the Southern Educational ent natural areas around the state, from mountain woods Communications Association, and the program itself was cloaked in the hues of autumn to the dark recesses of caves adopted as a teaching tool by the S.C. Department of and sinkholes, from the shifting sands of the seashore to a Education. Twenty-one of the shows will be used in the solid rocky outcropping in the Piedmont, from a Carolina schools this year, with lesson plans written by Rudy Mancke bay to the murky waters of the Cooper River. A number of and published by the South Carolina Instructional Television shows will be done in the state parks- places all of us can network. visit. Others will focus on wild creatures we ore likely to en­ The success of Naturescene demonstrates the educa­ counter when we step outdoors, such as snakes, insects, tional potential of cooperative programs combining the and spiders. resources and talents of the State Museum, ETV, and the Last year Naturescene appeared once a month. This Department of Education. We are looking forward to more year viewers will get a double treat, as different shows will of such cooperation in the future. be aired on the first and third Thursdays of each month at The new series starts in October. Plan to tune in ... 8:00p.m. Better yet, those who fail to catch a Thursday we're convinced that you'll be glad you did. show will get a second chance to see it the following Satur- Donors

We would like to recognize the people and institutions Harry R. E. Hampton Jock A. Meyer who over the last few months have generously donated Columbia Winnsboro objects to our collections. Their interest, support, and Cleveland A. Huey Gerard W. Rinaldi generosity have measurably assisted us in our efforts to Columbia Stamford, Connecticut Thomas l. Johnson Kathleen l. Sloan create a State Museum for South Carolina. Columbia Charleston G . Wayne King Rodger E. Stroup Florence Columbia William P. Baskin W.l. Chapman Eunice H. leonard louise Tote Bishopville lexington Columbia Columbia J. Corter and Virginia R. Boys Hunter l. Clarkson Robert Mackintosh Pauline P. Webel Columbia Columbia Columbia Glen Head, New York louise T. Burgdorf Philip W. and Isabel S. Fairey Agnes B. Mclellan Paul and Caroline Whitlock Springfield St. Matthews Columbia Cottageville Annelle Burriss Geneva R. Hamilton Capt. Fitzhugh McMaster Dr. James P. Wilson Columbia Mt. Pleasant North Chatham, Massachusetts Austin, Texas 7 Museum Happenings Around the State The Rice Museum Designed to keep readers in touch with museum Georgetown activities state-wide, the Museum Happenings column is a November 28-January 1 regular feature of our newsletter. In it we print information Georgetown Watercolor Society Annual Exhibit on special events, exhibits, and programs sent to us by Greenville County Museum of Art museums and museum-related institutions in our state. Greenville October 1-December 14 Barnwell County Museum October 18-November 16 Primitive Art in Piedmont Barnwell Edison (Science Museum) Collections November October 19-November 12 October 12-January 11 South Carolina Railroad Stations (from Virginia Warren Smith, photographic Animals in the Arts the S.C. Museum Commission) portraits October 26-December 7 Twenty Original Paintings by Sallie November 2-30 Baskets Middleton of Asheville, North American Watercolor Society December 13-January 4 Carolina November 16-January 4 Queena Stovall, paintings December Thomas Cooper, etchings December 20-February 1 South Carolina's State Park System November 20-January 4 Sally Mann, photography (from the S.C. Museum Commission) Crafts Invitational Sam Wang, photography January December 2-undetermined date January 10-February 4 Indians of South Carolina (from the S.C. Josef Albers, color portfolio Museum Commission) Robert Nelson, graphics December 14-January 1 8 Marlboro County Library January 18-March 29 American Abstract Artists Bennettsville Jamie Wyeth Exhibition January 7-February 15 November-December The Museum Fritz Eichenberg, woodcuts Tom Goforth, paintings and sculpture Greenwood January 23-February 15 November January Carolinians in New York SCMC lighting Collection S.C. State Art Collection, paintings and McKissick Museums, USC December graphics, mixed media (from the Columbia SCMC) Wildflowers of South Carolina September 1 through December Charles Towne Landing 1670 January Architectural Development at USC, Charleston South Carolina State Art Collection, 1805-1980 December 13 ceramics and sculpture September 3-December 8 Annual Christmas Tree lighting 1. P. Stanback Museum, S.C. State College The Afro-American Tradition in Orangeburg December 22-23 Decorative Arts (from the Cleveland October 12-November 23 Children's Days, educational tours and Museum of Art) The State Art Collection, the first collec­ games (special charge) October 7 -May 30 tive display of the 160 works pur­ Glbbes Art Gallery South Carolina Goes to War, 1776-1865 chased by the state from S.C. artists. Charleston October 20-May 26 December 1-January 30 September 16-November 9 Everyday life in Colonial South Carolina Black History of the Charleston District Permanent Collection: Conservation, November 9-December 19 Problems and Perspectives Pickens County Art Museum American Paintings: The Landon Pickens October 1-November 9 Collection November Architecture of Charleston: Meanings Erskine College Exhibition Center Photography by Sam Wang and Interpretation Due West Clay by Michael Vatalero October 10-November 9 November 3-25 December Georgia O 'Keefe and Her Circle Danish Museum Posters Bedcovers and Baskets November 15-December 14 December 1-16 January Sindhi Tombs, and Textiles from the Maritime Photos of Georgetown County Watercolors by Beverly Grantham and Collection of Ethel Jane Bunting low Country Baskets (Both exhibits from Ray Youngblood January 6-February 4 the S.C. Museum Commission Converse College, Milliken Gallery Richard Hagerty January 8-30 Spartanburg David Halsey Painting and Sculpture by Alan November 3-25 January 6-February 8 MacTaggart and Roger Wohlford leslie Exton, visiting artist 1981 Springs Mills Traveling Art Show Florence Museum December 1-31 Presbyterian College, James H. Thomason Florence Contemporary Prints: The Monotype and Gallery November Popular Image Clinton Peggy Howe, paintings Sumter Gallery of Art November November-December Sumter Betty Fryga, one-person show Fiber Industries Industrial Exhibit November 2-23 January December S.C. Watercolor Society Traveling Guy Allison, one-person show Abstracts by Paul Granger Exhibition Columbia Museums of Art & Science January November 30-December 21 Columbia Eleanor Spruill, watercolors Dolores Carvalho, textiles October 12-November 9 Nancy Schweder-Petterson, pottery Seibels, Bruce Exhib_ition S.C. Museum Commission Nonprofit Org. P.O. 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