But she also made and began showing abstract paintings, encouraged by Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden.
Her turn to sculpture began in New York.
The artists Ana Mendieta, who helped organize the show, and Howardena Pindell, whom it also featured, were among her friends.
By then, however, she had resettled in small-town Georgia — first Macon, then Athens — beginning a fade from view in the New York scene that was later compounded by ill health.
But the South held her heart and concerns, and in Georgia her sculpture added scales, materials and methods, in tune with the land and its stories.
Persons:
Buchanan, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, frustulas, Ana Mendieta, Howardena Pindell
Organizations:
Columbia University, Bronx and, —, Georgia
Locations:
New York City, Bronx, Bronx and New Jersey, New York, United States, A.I.R, Macon, Athens, Georgia