This story was updated on Monday, May 5 at 11:10 a.m.
When Georgia-based artist John Cleaveland read Jimmy Carter’s 2001 memoir “An Hour Before Daylight,” it resonated with him deeply. He has since read the book several times, striking a new chord within him each time.
This memoir inspired his work on view at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum, “The Nature of Man: Landscapes from the Childhood of Jimmy Carter.” They are realistic landscape paintings of various locations special to Carter’s childhood in Sumpter County, Georgia.
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