Great River
Great River
Jennifer Drinkwater. Great River, acrylic on wood panel, 36” H x 48” W x 1.75” D, 2024.
Great River arrives wired and ready to hang. My genius husband Aaron Swanson carefully crafts each panel with high-quality wood, mounting a smooth plywood surface onto a sturdy, mitred wooden frame that provides depth and support to the painting. The sides of the panel are sanded and finished for smoothness.
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Twenty percent of this sale will support the Washington County Work Ready Association in Greenville, Mississippi. The mission of the Washington County Work Ready Association is to promote, support, and provide innovative programs that provide workforce development skill training for high demand and high growth industry sectors to residents of Washington County, Mississippi.
The community stories that inspired Great River:
In 1979, I was born in Greenville, a small town on the Mississippi River in the heart of the Delta. Our family lived in Greenville until I was eight and my brother was two, and then we moved 120 miles south to Jackson, Mississippi’s capital city. Before I was a year old, I had already met my two of my very best friends in Greenville, and after we moved, I would go back to the Delta two to three times a year for decades to visit them.
There was always something different about Greenville and the Delta in general. I knew this intuitively, but I couldn’t really put my finger on what it was until much later in life. My father, the consummate Southern storyteller, describes Greenville culture in a way that really rings true. In Jackson, a dinner party goes something like this. Folks arrive at six o’clock, eat dinner at six-thirty, and head home promptly by eight-thirty. In the Delta, folks are invited at six and arrive at eight, drink until dinner’s served at eleven, dance until two, home before dawn.
That, my friends, is the Delta. And just the tip of the iceberg.