Churches: Photographs & Watercolors (H641/Mrc) - Hardcover

The book of "Churches" presents Don Smith's paintings and Roy Ward's photographs of community churches in Northeast Georgia giving the book of historical, social, and artistic significance. American churches are a central part of life in the communities of this country, and the once-familiar buildings are disappearing from the townships of our rural heritage. Smith and Ward separately recorded such buildings in paintings and photographs and appear here for the first time. No collection makes a more profound sociological comment on our recent past.

Roy Ward was born 1922, reared and attended school in Watkinsville, Georgia. University of Georgia graduate 1943; Medical College of Georgia, 1947. He worked as a physician in Athens, Georgia, Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, DC, and Atlanta, Georgia. He was in private practice as a family physician in Watkinsville, Oconee County, Georgia, from 1957 to gradual retirement after 50 years. His print-work and photography has been exhibited in Macon Georgia Museum of Arts and Sciences and in the Birmingham Alabama Art Museum.