Page numbers in italic type indicate illustrations.
Absolution, 33, 37–39, 186, 229
Abyss, 46
adolescents, 133, 138, 139, 140, 142–42, 147
African American, 33, 102, 104, 121, 138, 154, 165, 174, 202, 214. See also Gullah
Alfreda. See LaBoard, Alfreda
Alfreda (drawing), 112
Alfreda's World, 25, 74, 83, 118, 150, 158, 192, 237
Allerbescht Gallery, Telford, Pa., 80
American Watercolor Society, 55, 216
Amish, 1, 55–56, 57, 58–59, 78, 102
Amish Barn, An, 59
Amish Carriages, 58
Andrew, 96
Anliker, Roger, 63
Artist, 151
Bean Soup, 125
Beekeeper's Daughter, 4, 5, 25, 209
Bettina M. Whyte, 199
Birthday, 190
Black on Whyte, 84
Blue Umbrella, 202
Boneyard, 238
Boomer's Big Surprise, 88
Boomer Goes to School, 88
Boomer Under the Bed, from Boomer's Big Day, 87
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pa., 65, 133
Breezing By, 191
Cemetery, New Orleans, 21
Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 49
Chagrin Valley Little Theater, 55
Charleston, S.C., 83, 88, 92, 100, 191, 192, 216, 235
Charleston City Hall, 195, 196
Charleston Renaissance, The, 100, 188
children, 9, 81, 86, 92, 96–97, 128, 129–32, 135–37, 140–46, 148–49, 151
Chrisman's Lotus Pond, 217
Chronicle Books, 88
Church Picnic, 103
Cleveland Institute of Art, 60
Cleveland, Ohio, 49
Coleman, Smith, 25, 65, 68, 73, 186, 188
Coleman Fine Art, 188–89, 214, 216
Coming to Zion, 208
Constable, John, 74
Corky, 69
Cornstalks, 211
Cotton Man, 162
Crossing Bourbon, 225
Dayclean, 113
Devotional, 26
Disciple, 160
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 78
Down Bohicket Road (book), 25, 74, 123, 158, 206
Down Bohicket Road (painting), 94
Dr. Layton McCurdy, 196, 197, 198, 199
drawing, 5, 15, 25, 51, 54–55, 56, 58–59, 63, 121, 174, 235, 238. See also sketches
Dream of the Ancestors, 118, 119
Drummer Man, 175
Dunes, 85
Dürer, Albrecht, 73
Edgar, Walter, 96
Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Award, 237
End of High Tide, 10
Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, Johns Island, S.C., 25
Ethiopia, 229
Explorer, 9
Ferry, 47
Fifteen-Minute Break, 5, 6, 7, 184, 229
Finishing the Quilt, 111
Florence, Italy, 225, 226, 227, 229
frames, 25, 71, 73, 179, 186, 188, 195
Genesis, 218
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., 214
Gilded Quartet Fall, 30
Gilded Quartet Summer, 29
Gilded Quartet Winter, 31
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, S.C., 15, 133
Guardian Angel, 101
Gullah, 1, 56, 78, 102, 104, 138, 162, 174, 214, 229
Gullah Guide to Charleston, A, 192
Hamilton, Betty Verner, 189
Hans Brinker; or the Silver Skates, 78–79
hats, 3, 19, 63, 88, 121, 123, 124, 127, 142, 179, 206
Harvest Ball from Waltz of the Scarecrows, 88, 89
Hebron Church, 105
Hebron Saint Francis Senior Center, 92, 96, 102, 104, 105, 114, 123, 127, 128, 138, 158, 161
Heyward, Georgeanna, 121–23, 122, 179
Hidden, 27
High Hopes Word Picture, 50, 51
Hogg, Doug and Billie, 206, 209
Homecoming, 86
Homer, Winslow, 60, 73, 80, 83, 133, 165, 166
Hugo Sweater, The, 113–14, 115
Hurricane Hugo, 113
Hurricane Katrina, 170
Hurricane Warning, 203, 204, 205
Hutty, Alfred, 102
Indian Blanket, 74
Ironing, 23
Ivy, 75
Johns Island, S.C., 25, 55, 92, 150, 161
Johns Island Presbyterian Church, 114
Johns, Jasper, 147
Johnston, Henrietta, 191
Jubilation, 120
Kiawah Island, S.C., 92
Klimt, Gustave, 166
LaBoard, Alfreda Gibbs Smiley, 1, 102–4, 106, 107, 108, 112–15, 121, 138, 158
Lady Bug's View of the World, A, 48
landscape, 55, 57, 63, 69, 71, 73, 74, 76, 78, 80, 83, 92, 95, 199, 216–18, 220, 225, 226, 227, 236
Last Light, 239
Leaning, 236
Leaning Tree, 141–42, 143–45, 147
Lighting the Pumpkin, 77
Lindler, Katie, 214
Lipstick, 107
Listening to Someone's Story from The Color of Sky, 92, 93
Little Love, 42
Mama's Chores, 116
Mantegna, Andrea, 165
March, 82
Marsland, Tesha, 2, 6, 8, 12, 13, 15, 99, 100, 121, 138, 150, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161
Mary Whyte Art Educator Award, 214
Mayor Riley, 194
McCurdy, Layton, 196, 197, 198, 199
Medical University of South Carolina, 196
Miss Lewis in Pearls, 19
Morning Walk, Florence, 226
Mr. Noah, 222
Music Men, 11
New Book, 97
New Orleans, 222
News at Café du Monde, The, 222, 224
New Year, 180
Noah's Ark: The Landing, 73
oil painting, 196
Orange Hat, 124
Outbuilding with Chicken, 13
Overlooking Florence, 227
Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor, 15, 121, 133, 170, 195
Persimmon, 45
Philadelphia, 60, 83, 188, 217
Philadelphia Art Show, 78
photographs, 15, 88, 147, 150, 174, 196
Pineland, The, 200
Pinwheel, 129
Pit Man, 178
plein air painting, 19, 74, 203, 216
Portrait Society of America, 209
Praise House, 237
quilts, 1, 45, 78, 87, 104, 110, 114, 118, 119–20, 121, 123, 128, 129, 146, 147, 162
Raider, x
Reaching, 219
Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 78, 154
Rhode Island School of Design, 60
Riley, Joseph P., Jr., 194, 195–96
Rome, 60
Rooster, 43
Saint Michel, Paris, 54
Sargent, John Singer, 50, 60, 133, 134, 154
Scarecrow Self-portrait, 90
Seabrook Island, S.C., 1, 83, 88, 92
Sea Girt, N.J., 50
Sentinel, 163
September, 2
Shore Still Life, 62
Silverman, Burton, 209, 212–14, 213
Simmons, Philip, 192, 193, 199
Simplon Pass: Reading, 133, 134, 154
Sing Unto the Lord a New Song, 127
Sister Heyward, 121–22, 122, 214
Sliced Apples, 110
Smith, Alice Ravenel Huger, 199, 200, 203
Smith Bedford Coleman, Jr., 71
Snowball from Snowriders, 24
Society of Gilders, 188
Solo, 221
South Carolina Educational Television, 96
St. Michael's, Charleston, S.C., 92, 196
Steam Iron, 44
Summer Solstice, 8
Summertime, 203
Sunday Dinner, 108
Taylor, Anna Heyward, 188
Taylor, Mariah, 123, 126, 127, 128
technique. See watercolor
Teichner, Martha, 179
Temple University, Philadelphia, 60
Tending, 158
Tesha. See Marsland, Tesha
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 154
Tips, 185
Twirl, 98
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, 60, 63, 65
Veil, 181
Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill, 100, 102, 127, 199, 189, 199, 237
Wadmalaw Island, S.C., 204
Waltz of the Scarecrows, 88, 89
Wash Day, 79
Watching the Chess Game, 220
watercolor technique, 15, 25, 42, 60, 63, 121, 133, 154, 209, 238 wet-into-wet, 199–200, 203
Watercolor Portraits of the South by Mary Whyte, 15
Wednesday Chores, 109
When I Grow Old, frontispiece
Winter Field, 201
Whyte, Bettina M., 199
Whyte, Betty (mother), 49
Whyte, Donald (father), 50, 60
Whyte, Mary, xii, 57, 68, 212. See self-portrait books. See Alfreda's World, Down Bohicket Road, Working South, and Painting Portraits
children's books, 22, 63, 74, 87–93
dvd. See Watercolor Portraits of the South by Mary Whyte
gallery. See Coleman Fine Art
Winter Field, 201
Working South, 15, 74, 161–80, 182–87, 209, 220, 229
Wyeth, Andrew, 60, 63, 65, 121, 123, 133, 138, 170, 184
Wyeth, N.C., 65, 74, 76, 78, 88, 138