Ocean Springs Mississippi to Mobile Alabama

George Ohr, the mad potter of Biloxi, 'the greatest art potter on earth'.  Completely forgotten for 60 years until someone found a bunch of his pieces stored away in an old house. 

 Walter Anderson, part of Shearwater Pottery, liked to go out on the islands for weeks at a time by himself. And then hide away in a room back in Ocean Springs, where he painted the walls.  No one was allowed to go in the room.













Cloth painting constructions by Alan Shields, Mobile Museum

Thomas Moran, East Hampton, Long Island in the Mobile Museum of Art, completely empty on a Sunday morning...Also a Frederick Church and a boat lost in the ocean, the ultimate subject for an 11 year old boy.

 


 Walter Anderson painted ceramics in the Walter Anderson Museum, Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He worked at Shearwater with his brothers, sometimes he would go off the deep end, like the boat, and sometimes he just had to sleep under a boat on the island and be with the animals.

William "Willie" White at the Ohr Museum in Biloxi, and the Sandhill Crane refuge on a bit of remaining savannah in southeastern Mississippi.