McGuinness's photos show the artist in many settings on the Maine island he now calls home. Bryan brought elements of African art to award-winning collages and woodcuts on his own time, he made (and continues to make) other treasures. While the text forms a single narrative thread, the busy pages are laid out scrapbook-style on bright, overlapping rectangles of color, old family photos next to artwork next to call-outs of Bryan's words in large type. Bryan honed his skills, overcame racism and discouragement, and thrived throughout 20th-century tumult. Drawing every day, as a soldier during WWII he kept his art supplies in his gas mask (“There would have been a tumble of materials if I were ever in need of that mask!” he says). His Antiguan-born parents sang, kept birds and sheltered orphans they showed him how to resist convention and survive defeat. Well-loved illustrator Bryan's pictures and recollections tell of his lifelong devotion to making and sharing art.
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