A Southern Requiem: The Life and Art of William Christenberry William Andrew Christenberry Jr., born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1936, was an artist whose work became a poignant meditation on memory, place, and the slow decay of the American South. His artistic journey wasn’t one of immediate revelation but rather a gradual unfolding, deeply rooted in his childhood experiences within Hale County, Alabama—a landscape that would become b…