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The Gallery
Sharecroppers' Son,
Eyewitness to an Era
By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH
A self-taught African-American painter from Spartanburg, S.C., Johnnie Lee
Gray (1941-2000) would give his pictures to friends or sell them locally for
prices in the low three figures, often over the objections of his wife, Shirley Sims Gray, the family breadwinner. When necessity dictated, he would take work as a carpenter or at the local textile mill. But in his mind and hers, Gray was always an ar (showing 500 of 6532 characters). |
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