Exhibition Closing - The Nature of the Man: Landscapes from the Childhood of Jimmy Carter by John L. Cleaveland, Jr.

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
Atlanta, GA

The Nature of the Man:                         
Landscapes from the Childhood of Jimmy Carter by John L. Cleaveland, Jr.
Inspired by Carter’s memoir An Hour Before Daylight

Twenty-one paintings of places that were part of the visual world of Jimmy Carter’s childhood in rural Sumter County, Georgia. This exhibition brings the viewer to places that were part of the environment that shaped Carter’s childhood and tied his roots to the land – land that became the foundation for a way of life.