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 pove…