Early Life and Education Beverly Buchanan (October 8, 1940 – July 4, 2015) was an African-American artist born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, United States. Her formative years were marked by a profound connection to the rural South—a landscape that would profoundly shape her artistic vision and thematic concerns. Growing up with her great-aunt and -uncle in Orangeburg, SC, Buchanan experienced firsthand the realities of segregation and poverty within Black communities. Walter Buchanan, her adoptive father and Dean of the School of Agriculture at South Carolina State College, instilled in her a dee…