Literary icon Flannery O’Connor is best known for her Southern Gothic fiction and short stories including “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Wise Blood,” but she was also a visual artist.
Stored privately for decades by family and friends, 39 of her visual art works never seen by the public will be unveiled for one day at her alma mater, Georgia College & State University, in March. It’s planned as part of a monthlong centennial celebration of her birth in 1925. Titled “Flannery the Visual Artist,” the exhibition, ranging from oil paintings and wood-burned illustrations to linoleum-block prints and a self-portrait, will show visitors a new side of O’Connor.
