[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 111 (Thursday, September 5, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S8295]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        CELEBRATED ARTIST AND NATIVE TENNESSEAN HUBERT SHUPTRINE

 Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, it is a wellspring of pride for the 
people of Tennessee that Hubert Shuptrine is a native son. Born in 
Chattanooga in 1936 and graduated from the University of Chattanooga in 
1959 with a degree in fine arts painting, Shuptrine is one of the most 
celebrated American painters and watercolorists of the last several 
decades.
  From the Low Country of the Carolinas to the Hill Country of Texas to 
the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, Hubert Shuptrine's paintings 
have captured the rustic beauty of the American South. His love for the 
people of these places--and the places themselves--shines so strongly 
that one cannot help but share his affection.
  What lends such power to Shuptrine's paintings is that they are not 
conjured from his mind, but grounded in truth. He traveled more than 
15,000 miles to meet and talk with the people of the South when 
illustrating his first and highly successful book, Jericho: The South 
Beheld.
  With a stroke of light, a sliver of shadow or a strategically placed 
prop, Shuptrine sketches the life stories of his subjects. They are 
pure, simple and unrushed people--a former field hand resting on her 
front porch, a widower centenarian living off his land, a basket weaver 
practicing her craft.
  Shuptrine's wife, Phyllis, once said, ``A good portrait is like a 
biography.'' Clearly Hubert Shuptrine has adhered to this code 
throughout his career. He is an exceptional biographer not only of 
people of the South, but the South itself.
  Though the South has changed irreversibly since Jericho was published 
nearly 30 years ago, the truth and beauty of the people and places of 
that time will never be lost. For it has been captured and will be 
honored in perpetuity by a native son of Tennessee, Hubert 
Shuptrine.

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