All Creatures Great and Small

Part of the Airport Art Program, Department of Aviation, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, this special exhibition from the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection and the collection of Atlanta collector Carl Mullis featured works of art depicting animals created by American self-taught artists. 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 were on display in the Atlanta airport’s T gates for more than a year. The majority of artists featured have spent their lives in the South, including the following artists from Georgia: Michael Crocker, Finster, Willie Jinks, R.A. Miller and O.L. Samuels.