James Fowler Cooper (1877-1954), born in Williamsburg County, SC, and attended the University of South Carolina. While there he studied under Elizabeth White. After graduating with a double major in English and Latin, he went on to study at the Art Student's League in New York. Afterwards, he began to explore etching and is predominantly self-taught in the medium. The ¾ Portrait exhibition features an aquatint by Cooper. Aquatint is an etching process which produces tonal atmospheric effects.

Beverly Grantham Derrick (b. 1952) was born in Charleston, SC. She has studied under artists such as Henry Caselli, Judy Betts, Alex Powers, Christopher Schink, Betty Edwards and Burton Silverman. Beverly Grantham Derrick’s work is found in numerous cooperate, institutional and private collections.

William M. Halsey (1918-1999) of Charleston, SC studied at the University of South Carolina and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He taught at the Gibbes Art Gallery, the Charleston School of Art, and helped found the Studio Art Department at the College of Charleston. Halsey painted a portrait of Gene Waddell, director of the Florence Museum during the years of 1969-1975.

Jill Hooper (b. 1970) was born in New York and is from North Carolina. Hooper’s portrait work follows a classical tradition in style and execution. She currently works intercontinentally between Charleston, South Carolina and London, England.

Alfred Heber Hutty (1877-1954) was born in Grand Haven Michigan and spent most of his childhood in Kansas City where he attended the Kansas City School of Fine Arts. Later, Hutty worked and lived alternately between New York and Charleston, SC. He was an accomplished printmaker, artist in multiple mediums and a leading figure of the Charleston Renaissance. A portrait by Hutty of Dr. William Henry Welch appeared on the cover of Time Magazine on April 14, 1930.

Hubert Shuptrine (1936-2006) was born in Chattanooga Tennessee and is one of seven Governor’s Arts Awards selected by the Tennessee Arts Commission. A skilled watercolor portrait artist, he attempts to capture “the sum of moments – past, present, and future infused into a single glance” through portraiture.

Elizabeth White (1893-1976) of Sumter SC was an etcher, painter, and illustrator. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, at Columbia University, and with Wayman Adams and Alfred Hutty. She supported her former student James Fowler Copper in his beginnings as an etcher by allowing him the use of her press.

Stephen Scott Young (b. 1957) born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He studied at Flagler College in St. Augustine and then at the Ringling College of Art and Design, in Sarasota, Florida. He is known for his watercolors and often frames his portraits in settings such as porches and steps.