Exhibitions
On View
Object in Focus :The Orpheus Relief Project
September 30, 2012 - June 16, 2013
Samuel H. Kress Gallery
This project involves the public exhibition and interdisciplinary study of an important but little-known ancient marble relief sculpture with vestiges of ancient painting, which is in the David M. Robinson Memorial Collection of Greek and Roman Art at the University of Mississippi Museum. Mark Abbe, assistant professor of ancient art at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art serves as designer of the project, which will involve working with UGA’s Center for Applied Isotope Studies, department of chemistry and department of classics.
Cityscapes by Ben Aronson
May 04, 2013 - June 30, 2013
Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II
Perhaps best known today for depictions of men on Wall Street, Ben Aronson also creates eloquently expressive cityscapes.
Deaccessioning Bernard Smol
May 25, 2013 - July 07, 2013
Martha Thompson Dinos Gallery
This exhibition will feature five paintings by the French artist Bernard Smol (1897–1969) that are currently in the museum’s collection. Due to limited storage space and evolving collecting philosophy, the museum staff has decided to “deaccession,” or remove from its collection, all but one of the works. Visitors will be able to vote on which one they would like the museum to keep, and the curatorial staff will take those votes into consideration
Face Jugs :Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina
May 04, 2013 - July 07, 2013
Dorothy Alexander Roush and Martha Thompson Dinos Galleries
Decorative arts historians coined the term "face jug" to refer to a pottery type created by the African American enslaved community in the Edgefield district of South Carolina. The small vessel is turned stoneware with facial features—wide eyes and bared teeth—made of kaolin, a locally sourced clay.
Fashion Independent :The Original Style of Ann Bonfoey Taylor
June 01, 2013 - September 15, 2013
Virginia and Alfred Kennedy, Philip Henry Alston Jr., Boone and George-Ann Knox I, Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook, Charles B. Presley Family, Lamar Dodd and Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Galleries
Ann Bonfoey Taylor (1910–2007) created a life that personifies what an American woman can be—Olympic skier, championship tennis player, licensed pilot, successful skiwear designer, skilled sportswoman—but above all, she was a style icon.
Belleek Porcelain from the Collection of Linda N. Beard
Wall case gifted by Linda N. and Larry H. Beard, permanent collection galleries
This periodically rotating exhibition of Belleek porcelain comprises masterworks from the comprehensive and noted collection of Linda N. Beard. The roots of Belleek porcelain production lay in the lands of John Caldwell Bloomfield, who in 1849 had a geologic survey of his property in the village of Belleek, County Fermanagh, in what would later become Northern Ireland, that revealed rich deposits of minerals.jam
Permanent Collection
With the completion of Phase II, 13 new galleries now house a significantly larger portion of the Georgia Museum of Art's permanent collection, including many of the 100 American paintings that made up Alfred Heber Holbrook's founding gift, with which the museum first opened its doors in November 1948. Holbrook's vision of permanently exhibiting treasures from the museum's collection is, at last, realized.