William Christenberry

- Also known as
- William A. Christenberry, Jr.
- Bill Christenberry
- William Andrew Christenberry
- Born
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
- Died
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Biography
Born in Alabama. An artist of national acclaim, equally known for his photographs of the South and his disturbing sculptural pieces.
Nora Panzer, ed. Celebrate America in Poetry and Art (New York and Washington, D.C.: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994)
Works by this artist (1 item)
Videos
An interview with the artist William Christenberry. As a young man, William Christenberry often traveled the back roads of the South with his father. He studied painting as a graduate student at the University of Alabama until he discovered James Agees book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Christenberry was moved when he realized that the tenant farmers in Walker Evanss photographs were people he remembered from growing up near Hale County, Alabama. Although Christenberry creates many different kinds of art, ranging from photographs to drawings to sculptures, his experiences growing up in the South serve as the subjects for most of his artwork.