Study Centers in the Humanities
Curators of each collection have offices in the corresponding study center, making information and archives easily accessible to students and researchers. The Study Centers in the Humanities were made possible by a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Pierre Daura Center
The collection documents the life and career of the Catalan-American modern artist Pierre Daura (1896 – 1976) through correspondence, diaries, notes, exhibition catalogues, brochures, announcements, newspaper and magazine articles, oral history, sketches, photographs, slides, films, artifacts and ephemera. The archive complements more than 600 works of art by Pierre Daura in the museum’s collection.
The material is relevant to modern art from the 1920s through the 1960s, documenting Daura’s role in organizing the group Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square), and his interactions with such celebrated names as Émile Bernard, Joaquin Torres-García, Michel Seuphor, Piet Mondrian, André Breton and Cy Twombly. It also contains a continually updated collection of related material, including posthumous exhibition information and scholarly and promotional material. The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia maintains an online finding aid for the center, accessible here.
Contact: Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, nelda.damiano@uga.edu, 706.542.1208
The Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts
The Green Center organizes educational opportunities, provides access to important resources for researchers and assists with the development of the museum’s permanent collection. An ancillary mission of the Green Center includes the study of decorative arts from other regions and parts of the world. The Green Center organizes the Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, a biennial symposium focusing on the decorative arts of Georgia.
Key resources of the Green Center include the Green Library, approximately 1,000 volumes related to decorative arts, architecture and Georgia history, begun through a donation of books from Henry D. Green’s personal library; Henry D. Green’s papers, including correspondence, documentation and photography related to many of his restoration projects, exhibitions and lectures; and the Georgia Decorative Arts Survey, sponsored by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia and documenting more than 4,300 objects. The Green Center has recently acquired the papers of William and Florence Griffin, which are now being processed. Several smaller research collections soon will join the center’s ever-expanding resources.
Contact: Dale Couch, curator of decorative arts, dcouch@uga.edu, 706.542.0440
C.L. Morehead Jr. Center for the Study of American Art
The Morehead Center initiates and promotes the exhibition and study of American art, especially the objects in the permanent collection at the Georgia Museum of Art. The curator of American art directs the center as well as the museum’s programming in American art: research, exhibitions, publications, lectures, symposia, colloquia, workshops and acquisitions.
The center continues the legacy established by the museum’s founder, Alfred Heber Holbrook, and Lamar Dodd. The papers of Dodd and Holbrook are available to students and scholars, and the center continues to develop archival holdings related to works of art in the collection. The center also continues to expand the American art holdings of the library at the Georgia Museum of Art as a major resource for use by scholars, students and the general public.
Contact: Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art, jrichmondmoll@uga.edu, 706.542.0463
The Jacob Burns Foundation Center
In 2002, the Jacob Burns Foundation designated the Georgia Museum of Art as the primary repository of Gerald Brockhurst’s paintings, prints and drawings, as well as the archive of his correspondence and other written records. The museum hosted a retrospective of Brockhurst’s work in 1993, accompanied by a catalogue, and another in 2006. This partnership between the Burns Foundation and the Georgia Museum of Art continues the research sparked by those scholarly exhibitions.
Contact: Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art, jrichmondmoll@uga.edu, 706.542.0463