Bert Long

The Artist's Journey

Thomas McEvilley

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Houston Artists Fund
13 September 2016

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Painting & paintings; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs

Bert Long: The Artist's Journey encapsulates the life and art of Bert L. Long Jr. (1940-2013). Thomas McEvilley opens the book by describing his chance encounter with Long on a Houston street in 1980. An African American artist who grew up in Houston's Fifth Ward, Long was an energetic and enthusiastic artist who was trained as an executive chef and came to his art through his growing ability to carve ice and make decorative food in the hospitality industry. Long's work gained a wider audience as his reputation grew in the burgeoning Houston art scene of the 1980s and 1990s through alliances with many friends, chief among them his fellow sculptor James Surls. Long made hundreds of paintings and sculptures, including ice sculptures, and took tens of thousands of photographs during his lifetime. He had the opportunity to travel extensively, including trips to both Rome and the countryside of Spain, where he lived and worked. Bert L. Long Jr.'s work, which straddles the worlds of fine art and outsider art, can be found in many collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia; Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont; Jack S. Blanton Museum, Austin; and others in the United States and Europe.

By: Thomas McEvilley
Imprint: Houston Artists Fund
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 483g
ISBN: 9780967439549
ISBN 10: 096743954X
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 13 September 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas McEvilley (1939-2013) was an art critic, poet, novelist, scholar, and art historian at Rice University and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He was an expert in the fields of Greek and Indian culture and the history of religion and philosophy. He published books and essays on Greek and Indian poetry, philosophy, religion, and contemporary art and culture.