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20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN ART
Amazing Grace: Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection
This hardcover 12-by-12-inch exhibition catalogue features full-page color illustrations of all 90 works in the exhibition, organized by Paul Manoguerra, curator of American art at the Georgia Museum of Art, as well as essays by Carl Mullis, the collector, and Carol Crown, professor of art history at the University of Memphis. Biographies of all the artists, from Howard Finster and R.A. Miller to Sister Gertrude Morgan and Mary T. Smith, by Paul Manoguerra, follow the exhibition catalogue section. This book recieved a bronze medal in the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards for Fine Art Books.
Exhibition Dates: Sept. 29, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008
160 pp.; Illustrated (color). Published: 2007; $48.00
ISBN-10: 0-915977-63-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-915977-63-5
Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum
This catalogue of the works of Athens artist Art Rosenbaum accompanies his first major retrospective exhibition and is fully illustrated, with 51 full-page color images reflecting the entire checklist of the exhibition. Rosenbaum's paintings show many influences, from the American Scene to self-taught art to German Expressionist prints, and their large scale, complexity, and vivid color draw the viewer in. Dennis Harper (Georgia Museum of Art curator of exhibitions), Paul Manoguerra (Georgia Museum of Art curator of American art) and Len Jenkins (playwright) contributed essays to the catalogue, which also includes a 45-minute documentary on DVD titled "It's Not What You Think It Is" and directed by Neil Rosenbaum.
Exhibition Dates: Oct. 21, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007
General Editor: Dennis Harper
104 pp.; Illustrated (color). Published: 2006; $35.00
ISBN: 0-915977-60-5
The Eternal Masquerade: Prints and Paintings by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978) from the Jacob Burns Foundation
Accompanying the exhibition open from Aug. 12 to Oct. 8, 2006, The Eternal Masquerade examines Gerald Leslie Brockhurst's prints and paintings in the light of his contemporaries, exploring how they fit into the nexus of modern art and Hollywood glamour photography, as well as Brockhurst's Italian Renaissance and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood influences, his relationship with the subjects of his portraits (including his two wives, Anais and Dorette), and the worlds and identities he created through those portraits.
Exhibition Dates: Aug. 12-Oct. 8, 2006
General Editor: Romita Ray
132 pp.; Illustrated (color). Published: 2006; $28.00
ISBN: 0-915977-59-1
The Spirit of the Modern: Drawings and Graphics by Maltby Sykes
Exhibition dates: January 15-March 20, 2005
Essays by Taylor D. Littleton, Marilyn Laufer, Romita Ray
ISBN: 0-915977-55-9, $25
Published: January 2005
Figurative Connections: Selected Works by Eric Bransby
Exhibition dates: June 5-July 25, 2004
Essays by Marilyn Laufer and William U. Eiland
ISBN: 0-915977-53-2; $20
Published: June 2004
Coming Home: American Paintings, 1930-1950, from the Schoen Collection
Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art and the Mobile Museum of Art, this exhibition features 128 paintings from the numerous periods that make up the American scene from 1930 to 1950, when the influences of the Depression and World War II contributed to styles of art variously known as Regionalism, Social Realism, Magic Realism, Surrealism, and Precisionism. The exhibition will travel to the Mobile, Alabama; Gainesville, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; Coral Gables, Florida; Savannah, Georgia; and Athens, Georgia.
Exhibition dates: August 27-November 27, 2005
Essays by Erika Doss and Andrew Ladis
344 pp; Illustrated. Published: 2003; $45.00 (hardcover), $35.00 (softcover)
ISBN: 0-915977-50-8
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The Art of Lucy May Stanton
Born in Atlanta, Lucy May Stanton enjoyed a successful career as a professional artist until her death in 1931 at the age of 55. She created works in oil, pastel, and watercolor, but was best known as a painter of miniatures during the revival of the art form that took place in the United States after 1890. This catalogue is a product of the first major exhibition of the artist's work since 1932, held at the Georgia Museum of Art from May through July 2002. Over 50 works are illustrated in the catalogue, including miniature portraits on ivory, drawings, and oil paintings from public and private collections.
Exhibition dates: May 25-July 21, 2002
Essays by Betty Alice Fowler and Andrew Ladis
156 pp; Illustrated. Published: 2003; $25.00
ISBN: 0-915977-42-7
Fritz Bultman: Collages
Fritz Bultman, a New Orleans-born artist who studied in Munich, Germany as a teenager, became a student and fellow Abstract Expressionist of Hans Hofmann in the 1940s. He was also one of the 18 Advanced Artists who boycotted the 1950 exhibition American Painting Today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The "Irascible 18," as the artists were dubbed, protested the conservative nature of the selection process for the show in a letter published by the New York Times. When the Irascibles were pictured in Life magazine in 1950, Bultman was in Italy studying bronze casting techniques, so he missed the photography session. The artist has never really been given the same credit as such contemporaries as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, or his mentor, Hans Hofmann. The publication highlights Bultman's collages, which were influenced by Henri Matisse's cut-paper technique.
Exhibition Dates: November 1, 1997-January 18, 1998
Essays by Evan Firestone; Donald Windham
80 p.; Illustrated (includes 29 color plates); Essays: 2; Published: 1997; $25.00
ISBN 0-915977-33-8
This catalogue is available for loan from the Louis T. Griffith Teacher Resource Center.
Martha Odum: Watercolors
This retrospective exhibition of 40 watercolors by the late Martha Odum reflected her travels around the United States and the world. The artist painted colorful coastal scenes of Georgia, California, Oregon, Maine, Portugal, and northern France as well as desert and mountain landscapes of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Odum, a native of Chicago, was an active member in the Athens art community for over 50 years while her husband taught ecology at the University of Georgia. The publication includes a biographical essay on the artist and catalogue essays discussing her paintings.
Exhibition dates: January 25-March 23, 1997
Essays by Betty Jean Craige; Jennifer DePrima; Edward Lambert; Eugene Odum
80 p.; Illustrated (includes 66 color plates); Essays: 4; Published: 1997; $20.00
ISBN: 0-915977-32-x
California Impressionists
American Impressionists adopted the French technique in the 1880s; the movement slowly traveled west across the country until it finally peaked in California in the 1920s. The mission of this exhibition was to preserve Californian art of the Impressionist period and to display it for people all over the United States. The California Impressionist movement, also known as California plein-air painting, demonstrates the artists' concern for the color and light of the Pacific coast, considered by many of these artists to rival the coast of southern France. The publication includes scholarly essays, a catalogue of the exhibition, and a selected bibliography.
Exhibition dates: July 6-September 1, 1996
General Editor: William U. Eiland
Essays by Susan Landauer; Donald D. Keyes; Jean Stern
103 p.; Illustrated (includes 72 color plates); Essays: 3; Published: 1996; $30.00 (hard cover), $15.00 (soft cover)
ISBN: 0-915977-25-7
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Crosscurrents in American Impressionism at the Turn of the Century
This book is the second in a series on issues in the history of art. It was published in conjunction with a symposium that accompanied the exhibition American Impressionism in Georgia Collections. American Impressionism became a national style at the turn of the century, prior to World War I. The movement reflected the diversity in other arts at that time and represented the longing for stability in a country full of chaos. The book features five scholarly essays discussing the cultural and social context of the American Impressionist movement.
General Editor: William U. Eiland
Essays by Janice Simon; Nancy Mathews; Sarah Burns; Kathleen Pyne; Charles C. Eldredge
119 p.; Illustrated; Essays: 5; Published: 1996; $19.95
ISBN: 0-915977-16-8
The Art of Gerald Brockhurst
This publication includes essays on the life and art of Gerald Brockhurst, one of the 20th century's great printmakers and draftsmen, and an analysis of the women featured in his work. Brockhurst, celebrated for his sophisticated renderings of the women in his life, is known for his portraits of the celebrities and "society" figures of his era. This first large-scale U.S. exhibition of the artist's prints, drawings, and etchings epitomizes the elegance associated with the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. A catalogue of exhibited works is also included.
Exhibition dates: January 30-March 17, 1993
Essays by Thomas B. Brumbaugh; Andrew Ladis; Patricia Phagan
156 p.; Illustrated (includes 6 color plates); Essays: 3; Published: 1993; $20.00
ISBN: 0-915977-11-7
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Before 1948: American Paintings in Georgia Collections
This beautifully illustrated catalogue was released in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, commemorating the Georgia Museum of Art's 50th anniversary. The works featured in the exhibition and catalogue represent the full range of American painting genres up until 1948, the year of the museum's founding. The catalogue features such artists as George Cooke, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, John Sloan, Lee Krasner, and many more. Novelist Terry Kay has contributed an introduction to the book, which also includes an essay by curator Donald Keyes and catalogue entries.
General Editor: Donald D. Keyes
Essays by Terry Kay, Heidi Domesick
123 p.; Illustrated (color); Essays: 1, plus catalogue entries; Published: 1999; $40.00
ISBN 0-915977-36-2
Albert Christ-Janer
Albert Christ-Janer, a highly regarded educator and art historian as well as a painter and printmaker, served as the first Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Art at the University of Georgia in 1970 after a distinguished career in New York and elsewhere in the nation. The publication includes several essays detailing Christ-Janer's career (in particular, his time at Tamarind and the University of Georgia); a selective chronology of the artist's life; a description of Christ-Janer's innovative plans for a national arts center; a list of public collections and exhibitions of the artist's work; and a catalogue of the paintings and prints featured in the exhibition.
Exhibition dates: February 22-March 28, 1976
General Editor: Ethel Moore
Essays by Paul Weaver; Gibson Danes; Edmund Burke Feldman; Clinton Adams; Lamar Dodd; Virginia Christ-Janer
120 p.; Illustrated (includes 15 color plates); Essays: 6; Published: 1976; $7.50
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Joseph Hirsch
The exhibition included 43 paintings by celebrated 20th-century American artist Joseph Hirsch, winner of numerous fellowships, honors, and distinctions. Included in the publication are thematic and stylistic analyses of Hirsch's work, an introductory poem by the artist, and a catalogue of the exhibition.
Exhibition dates: March 20-May 3, 1970
General Editor: William D. Paul, Jr.
Essay by Frank Getlein
72 p.; Illustrated; Essays: 1; Published: 1970; $5.00
Philip Pearlstein
The publication includes a thematic and stylistic analysis of Pearlstein's work interwoven with a description of significant points in his life and career, as well as a catalogue of the exhibition and a selective chronology of the artist's life.
Exhibition dates: September 20-November 8, 1970
General Editor: William D. Paul, Jr.
Essay by Linda Nochlin
168 p.; Illustrated; Essays: 1; Published: 1970; $7.50