Sources

Unless otherwise noted all quotations are derived from interviews or e-mails with the author.

 

P. 6:	“Many of the ideas for my paintings.” Down Bohicket Road, with a foreword by Angela Mack (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012), 5.
P. 15:	“No accomplished artist.” Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2011), 26. “Watercolor, as any of the serious arts.” Painting Portraits, 47.
P. 25:	“You don't think about the hours.” Dave Munday, “Artists Donate Time, Talents,” Post and Courier, March 1, 1999. “Watercolor is the essence of the human spirit.” Painting Portraits, 9.
P. 42:	“I believe having the creative ‘idea.’” Painting Portraits, 45. “Some works take time to evolve.” Down Bohicket Road, 6.
P. 50:	“I started painting people in watercolor.” Painting Portraits, 9.
P. 56:	“It wasn't the ‘quaintness’ of the Amish.” Alfreda's World (Charleston: Wyrick & Company, 2003), 3–4. “A virtuoso in the watercolor medium.” Florian Lawton, http://www.fklfoundation.org/content/FKL_Media-Release_11.2009.pdf
P. 60:	“Gave her a copy of David McCord's 1971 book.” David McCord, Andrew Wyeth (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1971). “I did a still life with some of my mother's tea cups.” Elsa McDowell, Charleston Post & Courier, June 26, 1992.
P. 69:	“Anyone can do a good likeness.” Helen Cullinan, “Portrait Painter Returns Home,” Plain Dealer, June 26, 1992. “I knew I wanted to paint.” Painting Portraits, 143.
P. 80:	“If I heard it once, I heard it fifty times.” Jill Wendlin, “Every Day Subjects Provide Inspiration For Souderton Artist,” Morning Call Lehigh Valley's Newspaper, June 11, 1987. http://articles.mcall.com/1987-06-11/news/2572503_1_mary-whyte-great-masters-tyler-school
P. 83:	“Of all my paintings not one of them.” Watercolor Portraits of the South with Mary Whyte. DVD. Loveland, Colo.: American Artist and Interweave, 2011. “We knew that we had to move.” Alfreda's World, 1.
P. 87:	“Boomer's ready for his morning walk.” Constance W. McGeorge, Boomer's Big Day (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994).
P. 92:	“Here I was, a little Yankee girl.” Interview on Walter Edgar's Journal, South Carolina Educational Television/Radio, January 27, 2012.
P. 102:	“that Charleston had more free advertisement.” Elizabeth O’ Neill Verner, “An Autobiography,” unpublished manuscript, Verner papers, South Carolina Historical Society, 14.
P. 103:	“The first time Miss Mary come to the center.” Down Bohicket Road, 89.
P. 104:	“Because I want to paint.” Alfreda's World, 5. “This place wasn't lushly overgrown.” Alfreda's World, 49 and 52.
P. 113:	“Child, you best be getting over that one.” Alfreda's World, 32.
P. 114:	“We are like scraps of fabric.” Down Bohicket Road, 15.
P. 121:	“Although the soft edge of the steam is appealing.” Painting Portraits, 105. “Everyone's skin color has a predominance of red.” Painting Portraits, 118.
P. 123:	“I had no idea at the time.” Down Bohicket Road, 15.
P. 128:	“Wha-ha-ha! Is da’ me?” Alfreda's World, 41. “In Mariah's time.” Alfreda's World, 68. “working with children as models.” Painting Portraits, 154.
P. 133:	“Color helps to create the illusion.” Painting Portraits, 111.
P. 142:	“Adolescence, that wonderful age.” Robert E. Trea, “Mary Whyte's Art Engenders Critical and Popular Success,” Today's Spirit, June 20, 1985.
P. 147:	“Painting is so much more than learning.” Painting Portraits, 139. “Take an object.” Jasper Johns, sketchbook, quoted in Riva Castleman, Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1986), 22–23. “but with caution. I use photographs.” Painting Portraits, 82.
P. 150:	“each tree has a uniquely different character.” Down Bohicket Road, 10.
P. 154:	“worked quite rapidly on damp paper.” Painting Portraits, 18.
P. 162:	“These paintings are not meant to be biographies.” Mary Whyte: Working South, with a foreword by Martha Severens (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2011), 9.
P. 170:	“He, like many before him.” Working South, 45. “The background is one of the single most important elements.” Painting Portraits, 127. “We stand just outside the low doorway.” Working South, 72.
P. 174:	“I traveled without interests beyond those of getting material.” Thomas Hart Benton, An Artist in America (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1983), 77.
P. 179:	“His is the only movie theater for miles around.” Martha Teichner, “Artist Mary Whyte's Labor of Love,” CBS Sunday Morning, September 5, 2010.
P. 184:	“Kelly Hendon was born into the business.” Working South, 61–62. “I kept working my way south.” Working South, 4.
P. 188:	“When I had an art gallery.” Patra Taylor, “Preserving Charleston's Treasures.” http://www.discovercharleston.com/arts-antiques/preserving-charlestons-treasures.htm.
P. 192:	“I've always looked at painting people's portraits not as work.” Painting Portraits, 151. “My instrument is an anvil.” Robert Behre, “Renowned Charleston Blacksmith was 97,” Charleston Post & Courier, June 23, 2009.
P. 194:	“Backgrounds can be made to look near or far.” Painting Portraits, 128.
P. 199:	“She mastered the technique of watercolor.” Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, in Alice Ravenel Huger Smith of Charleston, South Carolina: An Appreciation on the Occasion of Her Eightieth Birthday (Charleston: privately printed, 1956), 28.
P. 200:	“Painting wet-into-wet is the most dramatic.” Painting Portraits, 54.
P. 206:	“Trudy, another one of the seniors.” Down Bohicket Road, 43–44.
P. 209:	“are in the business of raising things: bees, collards, tomatoes, grapes.” Working South, 5.
P. 238:	“Every place, every person.” Artist's Magazine, May 2003.
P. 238:	“subject matter is neither pretty.” Mary Whyte, An Artist's Way of Seeing (Charleston: Wyrick & Company, 2005), 39.