Collection

View many of our works in the Georgia Museum of Art's searchable database.

Since the museum first opened to the public in 1948 with a collection of 100 American paintings, it has amassed a permanent collection of varied media, artists, cultures, and time periods. Just like our collection of art, the database continues to grow as we add and update records for objects in the collection.

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American Art

American painting is the focus of the Georgia Museum of Art’s collection of American art, which began with a donation of 100 American paintings by the museum’s founder. Nineteenth-century works include those by George Cooke, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, George Inness, Elizabeth Ja...

Thompson Collection

The Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection of African American Art includes the work of both celebrated artists and artists considered emerging, regional or lesser known. In 2012, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson donated 100 works to the Georgia Museum of Art from their prominent collection of wo...

Daura Collection and Study Center

More than 600 paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures, as well as archival material related to the life and career of Catalan-American artist Pierre Daura (1896–1976) were donated to the Georgia Museum of Art in 2002. This transformative gift from Martha Randolph Daura in honor of her father has ...

Decorative Arts

The decorative art holdings of the Georgia Museum of Art are extensive and diverse. The curator of decorative arts directs the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts and provides programming for the study and exhibition of collections. Two galleries in the permanent collection wi...

The Kress Collection

Samuel H. Kress (1863 - 1955), born into a middle-class family in rural Cherryville, Pennsylvania, was the second eldest of seven children descended from German and Irish immigrants. He went on to build a successful retail empire with the opening of the first S.H. Kress & Co. five-and-ten-cent s...