Exhibitions
Past
William H. Johnson :An American Modern
February 16, 2013 - May 12, 2013
Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries
William Henry Johnson (1901–1970) is a pivotal figure in modern American art. A virtuoso skilled in various media and techniques, he produced thousands of works over a career that spanned decades, continents and genres. Now, on view in its entirety for the first time, a seminal collection covering key stages in Johnson’s career will be presented in "William H. Johnson: An American Modern."
Defiant Beauty :The Work of Chakaia Booker
April 30, 2012 - April 30, 2013
Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden
Referred to as a "radial radical," the African American contemporary artist Chakaia Booker used tires as her primary material in constructing these large-scale sculptures on loan from Marlborough Gallery, Chelsea, N.Y.
Remixing History :Manolo Valdés
April 30, 2012 - April 30, 2013
Performing and Visual Arts Complex, University of Georgia
Spanish-born Manolo Valdés is known for his paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures, which draw heavily from Spanish art history through appropriating and simplifying familiar forms.
Americans in Italy
January 19, 2013 - April 21, 2013
Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II
Corresponding with an upper-level art history course taught by chief curator Paul Manoguerra, “Americans in Italy” features art objects dealing with Italian landscapes, people, buildings and life yet fashioned by American artists.
Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition
March 16, 2013 - April 21, 2013
Boone and George-Ann Knox I, Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook, Charles B. Presley Family, Lamar Dodd and Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Galleries
At long last, the Lamar Dodd School of Art's Master of Fine Arts degree candidates' exit show returns to the Georgia Museum of Art. This exhibition is always diverse in media and aesthetics and provides valuable real-world experience for the students.
From Savanna to Savannah :African Art from the Collection of Don Kole
January 19, 2013 - April 14, 2013
Dorothy Alexander Roush and Martha Thompson Dinos Galleries
Drawn from an extensive private collection of African art in Savannah, Ga., this special exhibition includes sacred, meaningful objects created by numerous peoples in sub-Saharan Africa.
Object in Focus :The Orpheus Relief Project
September 30, 2012 - March 31, 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.
Water Music
February 02, 2013 - March 10, 2013
Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery
Drawing from private collections and from the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art, “Water Music” will bring together diverse visual perspectives on the theme of water and the idea of water music.
Minna Citron :The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction
December 08, 2012 - March 03, 2013
Boone and George-Ann Knox I, Rachel Cosby Conway and Alfred Heber Holbrook Galleries
Organized by Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., and Christiane H. Citron, this retrospective exhibition features work by award-winning painter and printmaker Minna Citron (1896–1991). Citron’s New York-based career was long and distinguished, with numerous exhibitions worldwide and her works represented in the permanent collections of major museums in the United States and abroad.
John Haley :Berkeley School Abstract Expressionist
November 10, 2012 - March 03, 2013
Lamar Dodd and Charles B. Presley Family Galleries
Organized by the Monterey Museum of Art, John Haley: Berkeley School Abstract Expressionist includes abstract paintings by the American artist John Haley (1905-1991) from the collections of several private lenders. Haley studied with Hans Hofmann in Germany in the 1920s and became an important and influential art instructor at the University of California, Berkeley, one of the most innovative art departments in the country at that time.
De Wain Valentine :Human Scale
September 08, 2012 - January 27, 2013
Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries
From the late 1960s through the late 1970s, the Colorado-born but California-based artist De Wain Valentine made large-scale sculptures in polyester resin. Their simple shapes (discs, slabs, diamonds) belie the complex processes by which they were created, as Valentine had significant technical input into the chemical composition of the new material.
From Start to Finish: The Story of De Wain Valentine’s “Gray Column”
September 08, 2012 - January 27, 2013
Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery
This documentary tells the story, from conception to display at the Getty Center, of De Wain Valentine’s resin sculpture “Gray Column.”
All Creatures Great and Small
April 20, 2011 - January 23, 2013
Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta, Georgia
Paintings, sculptures and mixed-media creations by such folk masters as Howard Finster and Mose Tolliver and by such outstanding but relatively unheralded contemporary artists as Jim Lewis and Ted Gordon are on display in the Atlanta airport’s T gates.
George Beattie’s Agriculture Murals
August 01, 2012 - January 20, 2013
Patsy Dudley Pate Balcony
In 1956, George Beattie, an Atlanta-based artist, painted a series of eight murals that hung at the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s building in downtown Atlanta until 2011. The four that will be on display here address the state’s history of agriculture, beginning with a representation of the American Indians who originally lived in the region and including two that address slavery.
The Look of Love :Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection
October 06, 2012 - January 06, 2013
Dorothy Alexander Roush and Martha Thompson Dinos Galleries
Organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, “The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection,” is the first major exhibition of lover’s eye jewelry. Exquisite in craftsmanship, unique in detail, and few in number, lover’s eye miniatures are small-scale portraits of individual eyes set into various forms of jewelry from late-18th- and early-19th-century England.
Beyond the Bulldog : Jack Davis
November 03, 2012 - January 06, 2013
Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II
Perhaps best known in Georgia for his depictions of Southeastern Conference mascots tussling, Jack Davis (b. 1924) has had a lengthy career in illustration and cartooning, with an immediately recognizable style and an influence that extends far beyond his home state.
Francisco de Goya’s “Disasters of War”
August 18, 2012 - November 03, 2012
Alfred Heber Holbrook and Charles B. Presley Family Galleries
Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) is recognized as the foremost Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Perhaps his greatest achievement as a printmaker, this famous series of prints concentrates on the lengthy Peninsular War (1808–1814) between Spanish forces and the invading army of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Epic and the Intimate :French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection at the Snite Museum of Art
August 18, 2012 - November 03, 2012
Boone and George-Ann Knox I and Rachel Cosby Conway Galleries
Organized by the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, this exhibition, including works by Simon Vouet, Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jacques-Louis David, illustrates the history of French drawing from before the foundation of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1648 through the French Revolution of 1789 and its subsequent reforms of the 1800s.
The New York Collection for Stockholm
August 18, 2012 - October 28, 2012
Lamar Dodd Gallery
In the early 1970s, the New York-based group Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), looked to put together a collection of some of the most important American art of the 1960s, with the aim of donating it to a public museum. They chose 30 works in a variety of media and selected the Moderna Museet in Stockholm as the recipient because of its strong history of support for American contemporary art.
The South in Black and White :The Graphic Works of James E. Routh Jr., 1939–1946
August 25, 2012 - October 21, 2012
Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II
James E. Routh Jr. was born in New Orleans in 1918 and grew up in Atlanta. In 1936, Routh enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City to study painting, printmaking and lithography.
Prints and Drawings by Gerald L. Brockhurst from the Daniel and Rosalyn Jacobs Collection
June 30, 2012 - September 16, 2012
Dorothy Alexander Roush and Martha Thompson Dinos Galleries
In partnership with the Jacob Burns Foundation, GMOA serves as a repository of Gerald Brockhurst’s paintings, prints and drawings, as well as the archive of his correspondence and other written records.
Victory Lap :Time-Based Winners of the Kress Project
June 12, 2012 - September 07, 2012
Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery
This exhibition features video and audio winners and honorable mentions from the Kress Project, a two-year initiative celebrating the 50th anniversary of the museum’s Samuel H. Kress Study Collection that includes an international juried art competition and online exhibition of creative responses inspired by the Georgia Museum of Art’s Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings. It includes four works of video art, a recorded song and a taped dance piece.
Dürer and His Legacy
June 16, 2012 - August 12, 2012
Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II
This exhibition, held in conjunction with "A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery" and drawn from the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art, highlights prints of Albrecht Dürer, perhaps the most important Northern Renaissance artist and one of the most accomplished printmakers in Western art.
A Divine Light :Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
March 17, 2012 - July 29, 2012
Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries
Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tenn., and the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery in Greenville, S.C., “A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery” and its accompanying catalogue, which have been awarded financial support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, presents 28 works of art from one of the finest collections of Old Master paintings in the Southeast.
John Baeder
April 28, 2012 - July 22, 2012
Boone and George-Ann Knox I, Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook and Charles B. Presley Family Galleries
Raised in Atlanta, John Baeder (b. 1938) is best known for his photorealist paintings and prints of mid-century diners. Originally considered mere source material for his paintings, Baeder’s photographs have now emerged as stand-alone works of art.
Southern Folk Art from the Permanent Collection
April 28, 2012 - July 22, 2012
Lamar Dodd Gallery
In conjunction with "John Baeder," this special exhibition will feature works of southern folk art from the permanent collection.
Pattern and Palette in Print :Gentry Magazine and a New Generation of Trendsetters
March 17, 2012 - June 17, 2012
Dorothy Alexander Roush and Martha Thompson Dinos Galleries
A collaboration with undergraduate fabric design students at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, this exhibition takes as its inspiration Gentry magazine, a 1950s men’s lifestyle magazine that artfully captured nearly a decade of trends in menswear, with special emphasis on textiles and color.
Performing Identity :Marina Abramovic, Eleanor Antin, and Hannah Wilke
March 21, 2012 - June 10, 2012
Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery
This series showcases videos of performances dealing with issues of identity by three seminal artists of the 1970s and '80s.
Polly Knipp Hill :Marking a Life Through Etching
April 07, 2012 - June 03, 2012
Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II
American printmaker Polly Knipp Hill began working as an artist in the 1920s and garnered increased recognition in the decades that followed. Although she initially focused on European architecture, in her mature period her broad body of work grew to encompass poignant, amusing and slightly satirical genre scenes that reflected American culture.
To Make a World :George Ault and 1940s America
February 18, 2012 - April 16, 2012
Boone and George-Ann Knox I, Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook and Charles B. Presley Family Galleries
This is the first major exhibition of Ault’s work in more than 20 years and includes 47 paintings and drawings by Ault and his contemporaries. It centers on four paintings Ault made between 1943 and 1948 depicting the crossroads of Russell’s Corners in Woodstock, N.Y
Georgia Bellflowers :The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas
January 14, 2012 - April 15, 2012
Lamar Dodd Gallery
Henry Eugene “Gene” (or “Shorty”) Thomas (1883–1965) worked from his home in Athens, Ga., as an antiques dealer and furniture maker for more than four decades. The first exhibition devoted to this artist and his work, "Georgia Bellflowers" documents Thomas’ roles in the Colonial Revival in the United States, in the history of the study of decorative arts in the South and as a 20th-century Georgia craftsman.
Will Henry Stevens
January 21, 2012 - March 25, 2012
Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II
In 2001, The Will Henry Stevens Memorial Trust via Janet Stevens McDowell, the artist’s daughter, presented the Georgia Museum of Art a large gift of diverse work by the American painter. Stevens was born in Vevay, a small Indiana town along the Ohio River between Louisville and Cincinnati. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy, run by Frank Duveneck, worked at Rookwood Pottery and attended classes at the Art Students League in New York with American Impressionists William Merritt Chase and Jonas Lie.
Responses in Time :Video Submissions to the Kress Project
February 29, 2012 - March 18, 2012
Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery
This exhibition features videos submitted to the Kress Project, a competition and online exhibition of creative responses inspired by the Georgia Museum of Art’s Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings. The Kress Project is organized by the Georgia Museum of Art and made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Visit http://www.georgiamuseum.org/kressproject for more details and to see submissions in other media.
Introduction to the Centers
December 03, 2011 - March 04, 2012
Dorothy Alexander Roush Gallery
One of the key elements in GMOA’s expansion was the construction of its Study Centers in the Humanities, four named units containing archives that supplement the museum’s collection and promote hands-on research. This small exhibition serves as an introduction to the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts.
Lycett China
December 03, 2011 - March 04, 2012
Martha Thompson Dinos Gallery
Edward Lycett (American, b. England, 1833–1910) was an important porcelain painter who immigrated to New York from Great Britain in 1861. By the early 1880s, Lycett and his family had settled in Atlanta and opened a studio devoted to porcelain decoration with the ancillary mission of educating young women.
Dale Nichols :Transcending Regionalism
December 17, 2011 - February 27, 2012
Virginia and Alfred Kennedy Gallery
Organized by the Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in David City, Neb., this retrospective exhibition presents Nebraska native Dale Nichols’ nostalgic images of rural America. Paintings dating from 1935 to 1972 establish Nichols not only as a regionalist in the company of such great artists as Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, but one who transcended the confines of the genre to achieve universal success.
Images of the Midwest from the Collection
December 17, 2011 - February 27, 2012
Philip Henry Alston Jr. Gallery
This special, temporary display complements "Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism" and features images of the Midwest by American artists.
Bill Viola :Collected Work, 1977–80
December 03, 2011 - February 19, 2012
Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery
Pioneering video artist Bill Viola helped make the medium vital to contemporary art in the 1970s and 1980s and remains among its most important practitioners.
Quiet Spirit, Skillful Hand :The Graphic Work of Clare Leighton
November 19, 2011 - February 03, 2012
Boone and George-Ann Knox I, Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook and Charles B. Presley Family Galleries
Organized by the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, N.C., this exhibition includes images from the Mint’s Pratt Collection, one of the largest collections of Clare Leighton’s work in the country and spans Leighton’s career from 1923 to 1965. “Quiet Spirit, Skillful Hand: The Graphic Work of Clare Leighton” provides a full survey of Leighton’s career, from her earliest prints in the 1920s that depict the labors of the English working classes to a selection of her rarely seen watercolors.
Horizons
January 29, 2011 - January 31, 2012
Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden
An installation of “Horizons,” by the Icelandic artist Steinunn Þórarinsdóttir (pronounced Stay-nun Thorens-daughter), will inaugurate GMOA’s Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, which is dedicated to women sculptors. Previously installed in such contexts as fields, forests, galleries and gardens, 12 androgynous, life-sized, cast-iron figures are connected as a group by a polished glass band inserted across each figure’s chest.
Buon Natale :Holiday Prints by Libby Bailey
November 12, 2011 - January 08, 2012
Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II
This exhibition features Libby Bailey’s holiday woodcuts, which have a distinctly Italian flavor. A Georgia native and an art history professor at Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga., Bailey has studied art in Cortona and Florence, Italy, and has recently begun to study art in England, France and Germany.
Originality by Subscription :l’Estampe originale
November 19, 2011 - December 31, 2011
Lamar Dodd Gallery
This exhibition of works on paper from the museum’s permanent collection, originally printed in l’Estampe originale, a quarterly started in March 1893 in France, focuses on the circumstances that coalesced to make the quarterly such a success.
Edmund Lewandowski : Precisionism and Beyond
September 10, 2011 - December 04, 2011
Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries
Midwestern artist Edmund Lewandowski (1914–1998) was an influential painter and art educator known for his images of industrial, urban and architectural subject matter. Organized by the Flint Institute of Arts, “Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond” surveys all aspects of Lewandowski’s oeuvre, which includes a wide array of subjects in varied styles and media.
Anthony Goicolea “snowscape”
January 30, 2011 - November 30, 2011
Patsy Dudley Pate Balcony and Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery
Anthony Goicolea was born in 1971 in Atlanta, Ga., and is currently based in Brooklyn, N.Y. He obtained a BA in art history and a BFA in painting from the University of Georgia and an MFA from the Pratt Institute. As part of the Georgia Museum of Art’s reopening, he has created an original photo mural and video installation.
Introduction to the Centers
August 15, 2011 - November 20, 2011
Dorothy Alexander Roush and Martha Thompson Dinos Galleries
One of the key elements in GMOA’s expansion was the construction of its Study Centers in the Humanities, four named units containing archives that supplement the museum’s collection and promote hands-on research. This small exhibition serves as an introduction to three of the four: the C.L. Morehead Jr. Center for the Study of American Art, the Jacob Burns Foundation Center (devoted to the study of prints and drawings) and the Pierre Daura Center.
Hot Metal and Cool Paper :The Black Art of Making Books
August 27, 2011 - November 06, 2011
Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery I
This focused exhibition presents works by private presses, including books printed by LaNana Creek Press (Charles D. Jones, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas), the Press of the Nightowl (Dwight Agner, Athens, Ga.) and Tinhorn Press (Chuck Robertson, Atlanta, Ga.).
American Letterpress : The Art of Hatch Show Print
August 27, 2011 - November 06, 2011
Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook, Charles B. Presley Family and Lamar Dodd Galleries
This exhibition illustrates the fascinating fusion of art with popular culture and music history. Featuring the work of one of the nation’s oldest and continuously printing shops—Nashville, Tennessee’s Hatch Show Print—it highlights the uniquely American posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs and stock car races to the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley and Herbie Hancock.
Fleeting Pleasures :Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art
August 31, 2011 - October 30, 2011
Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II
Drawing from the outstanding collection of works on paper at the Georgia Museum of Art, this exhibition will provide a history and overview of Japanese woodblock prints or ukiyo-e—literally, pictures of the floating or fleeting world. As their name suggests, these landscapes, cityscapes and scenes of domestic life were intended to emphasize the impermanence and fleeting beauty of the world around us.
Lamar Dodd :Paintings and Drawings
July 02, 2011 - August 28, 2011
Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries
Lamar Dodd––teacher, arts administrator, advocate and artist––rebuilt and revitalized the University of Georgia's art department beginning in 1937. He was the most recognized artist of his generation from the state of Georgia and is considered the "godfather" of the Georgia Museum of Art.
The Art of Disegno :Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art
May 14, 2011 - August 07, 2011
Boone and George-Ann Knox, Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook and Charles B. Presley Family Galleries
This selection of 53 works on paper produced in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries by such renowned artists as Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Parmigianino draws largely on the collection of Giuliano Ceseri, on long-term loan to the Georgia Museum of Art.
American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection
May 14, 2011 - August 07, 2011
Lamar Dodd Gallery
This exhibition features American watercolors from the mid-19th century to the 1970s from the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art. Paintings by Jasper Francis Cropsey, William Stanley Haseltine and Frederic Remington demonstrate the importance of the medium in American 19th-century art while American moderns Charles Burchfield, John Marin and Andrew Wyeth represent true masters of watercolor.
Stone and Steel :Small Works by Beverly Pepper
January 30, 2011 - July 29, 2011
Dorothy Alexander Roush and Martha Thompson Dinos Galleries
Approximately 20 small works in steel and such materials as onyx, porphyry, marble and granite by American sculptor Beverly Pepper as well as small-scale models of her site-specific work “Ascension,” which is permanently installed in the quad between the museum, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, the Performing Arts Center and the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
Dalí Illustrates Dante’s Divine Comedy
April 10, 2011 - June 19, 2011
Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries
Dalí considered this project to be one of the most important of his career. Organized by the Las Cruces Museum of Art in New Mexico, this exhibition contains all one hundred prints from Salvador Dalí’s “Divine Comedy” Suite and is part of a ten-city national tour developed and managed by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services.
The American Scene on Paper :Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection
January 30, 2011 - May 01, 2011
Boone and George-Ann Knox, Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook, Charles B. Presley Family and Lamar Dodd Galleries
“The American Scene on Paper” includes 153 prints and drawings by American artists from across the country, mostly working between the wars. Smaller versions of this exhibition traveled to the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C., and to the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ga., in 2009.
Tradition Redefined :The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art
January 30, 2011 - March 28, 2011
Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries
Seventy-two works by 67 black artists who typically have not been recognized in the traditional narratives of African American art make up “Tradition Redefined,” an exhibition organized by the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park.