Georgia Museum of Art

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Georgia Museum of Art
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Established1948
LocationUniversity of Georgia
90 Carlton Street
Athens, Georgia
Coordinates33°56′28.57″N 83°22′11.89″W / 33.9412694°N 83.3699694°W / 33.9412694; -83.3699694
TypeArt museum
Websitegeorgiamuseum.org

The Georgia Museum of Art is an art museum in

Samuel H. Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance paintings; growing collections of southern decorative arts and Asian art; and a strong collection of works by African American artists. It numbers more than 17,000 works, growing every year.[2]

The Georgia Museum opened on UGA's North Campus in 1948, in a building that now houses the university president's office, then moved to the Performing and Visual Arts Complex on UGA's East Campus in 1996. In 2011, it completed an extensive expansion and remodeling of its building, paid for entirely with externally raised funds and designed by

Gluckman Mayner Architects, New York, that has allowed it to display its permanent collection continually. The museum offers programming for patrons of all ages, from child to senior citizen, as well as free admission to the public for all exhibitions. It organizes its own exhibitions in-house, creates traveling exhibitions for other museums and galleries and plays host to traveling exhibitions from around the country and the globe. The museum strives, most of all, to fulfill the legacy of its founder, Alfred Heber Holbrook
, and provide art for everyone, removing barriers to accessibility and seeking to foster an open, educational and inspiring environment for students, scholars and the general public.

The foundation of the museum's collection, the Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, a collection of 100 American paintings, was donated to UGA in 1945 by Holbrook in memory of his first wife.[3] Included in this collection are works by Frank Weston Benson, William Merritt Chase, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence, John Singer Sargent, and Theodore Robinson.[2]

Selected collection highlights

  • James McDougal Hart
    James McDougal Hart
  • Childe Hassam
    Childe Hassam

References

  1. ^ "State Art Museum", State Symbols, Office of Secretary of State, archived from the original on 2019-06-21, retrieved 2019-06-24
  2. ^ a b "Georgia Museum of Art". Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  3. ISSN 0004-3249
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