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01674aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 611B7FF4EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210722010305 008 190611s2019 lau 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1939905508 020 $a 9781939905505 040 $a MDK $b eng $e rda $c MDK $d TnLvILS $d CoBoFLC $d SKYRV $d SILO 043 $a n-us-md 100 1 $a Gidney, Craig Laurance, $d 1967- $e author. 245 12 $a A spectral hue / $c Craig Laurance Gidney. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Petaluma, CA : $b Word Horde, $c ©2019. 300 $a 215 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland, has played host to a loose movement of African-American artists, all working in different media, but all utilizing the same haunting color. Landscape paintings, trompe l'oeil quilts, decorated dolls, mixed-media assemblages, and more, all [feature] the same peculiar hue, a shifting pigment somewhere between purple and pink ... Graduate student Xavier Wentworth has been drawn to Shimmer, hoping to study the work of artists like quilter Hazel Whitby and landscape painter Shadrach Grayson in detail, having experienced something akin to an epiphany when viewing a Hazel Whitby tapestry as a child"--Back cover. 650 0 $a African Americans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African American artists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Artists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Colors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Magic $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fantasy fiction. 651 0 $a Maryland $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722063409.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=611B7FF4EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search