History Made Art—Painting the Battle of Hanging Rock

Sunday, May 19 at 3 p.m.

Society Meeting in the County Council Room
At the Kershaw County Government Center
515 Walnut Street, Camden, SC

Artist Boyd Saunders, above at work in his studio, will speak at the KCHS program in Camden on his process and research in creating his painting The Battle of Hanging Rock, which is on exhibit at the South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC.

At our May 19 program in Camden, open to the public, you will also learn about the Battle of Hanging Rock itself, an action near the present Kershaw-Lancaster boundary that is part of our Revolutionary history, fought 10 days before the Battle of Camden.

You will also learn more about the artist himself, a colorful raconteur and world-exhibited artist who is the subject of a new book, below,  A View from the South: The Narrative Art of Boyd Saunders, by Thomas Dewey II. More on this book.

Below, at the South Carolina State Museum viewing Boyd Saunders’ painting The Battle of Hanging Rock, the Ken Brown family. The painting is on the fourth floor, Cultural History section on the Revolution. More on the museum.

About Joan and Glen Inabinet

Joan A. Inabinet and L. Glen Inabinet are co-authors of A HISTORY OF KERSHAW COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA (2011, University of South Carolina Press) and active in the Kershaw County Historical Society in Camden, S.C.