Galley artis Dusti Bongé's works Where the Shrimp Pickers Live (1940) is included in the group exhibition Southern/Modern at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens Georgia. The exhibition is the first project to survey comprehensively the rich array of paintings and works on paper created in the American South during the first half of the 20th century. Featuring more than 100 works of art drawn from public and private collections across the country, it brings together a generation’s worth of scholarship. The exhibition takes a broad view of the South, considering artists who worked in states below the Mason-Dixon line and as far west as those bordering the Mississippi River. It is structured around key themes that cut across state lines and take an inclusive view of the artists working in the region. It also includes a number of major artists from outside the region who produced significant bodies of work while visiting. Southern/Modern provides the fullest, richest and most accurate overview to date of the artistic activity in the South during this period and illuminates the important and hitherto overlooked role that it played in American art history.