Charles McGee: Seeing Seventy by Shinners, Jacqueline; MaryAnn Wilkinson, essays - 1994

Staple-bound, card wraps, 21.5 by 27.7 cm, 32 pp., illus. in color. Only the faintest signs of shelf wear to the wraps. Published to celebrate an exhibition for the artist's seventieth birthday, this booklet features McGee's "Noah's Ark" series. McGee (1924 –) was born in South Carolina but moved to Detroit when he was 10. In 2008, McGee was named the first Kresge Eminent Artist, administered by the College for Creative Studies (Detroit), and in early 2019, Michigan Legacy Art Park announced that McGee would receive its 2019 Legacy Award "in recognition of a lifetime of achievements and influences as an artist, teacher, advocate and global citizen."