![]() While in prison, a man named TJ taught him how to carve wallets out of leather, a skill that he would use decades later in his embossed leather paintings.Īfter his release, Rembert and Patsy married and they moved to New York, then Connecticut, where he worked a variety of jobs. Remarkably, he met his wife while building roads and bridges in rural Georgia as part of his prison sentence. He spent the next seven years in a chain gang. They stuck him with a knife but did not kill and burn him as he had anticipated. A year later, he escaped but was caught and hung up by a group of deputy sheriffs. In 1966, after a demonstration in Americus, Georgia, Rembert was arrested and put in jail without being charged. He would go on to be a nationally recognized artist, and his biography - Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist?s Memoir of the Jim Crow South - was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. Winfred Rembert 4-23-11"īorn in rural Georgia, raised in a community tied to the cotton fields, Winfred Rembert survived a childhood of poverty in the segregated South of the 1940s. ![]() When I was a little boy I watched Egg and tried to copy his style. A great Dancer whose nick-name was Egg inspired me to do this picture. "To My Good Buddy Richard from Bridgeport Ct. ![]() ![]() Couple Dancing, inscribed bottom right "Winfred Rembert", dye on carved and tooled leather, 33-1/4 x 18-3/4 in. ![]()
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