Working South, an exhibition of dozens of Mary Whyte’s masterful, large-scale watercolors, is a sympathetic portrayal of the urban and rural working class of the South whose jobs are gradually disappearing, outmoded by the passage of time or lost to foreign competition. Whyte tells tales of the forgotten and overlooked—everyone from a textile worker and shoe shine man to an elevator operator and tobacco farmer—through the endlessly difficult and unforgiving medium of watercolor. Watercolor artist Mary Whyte, a teacher and author, as well as a painter, has gained national recognition through her figurative paintings. Her portraits are included in numerous corporate, private, and university collections, as well as the permanent collections of South Carolina's Greenville County Museum of Art and Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston. Her paintings have been featured in International Artist, Artist, American Artist, Watercolor, and