facet – spring 2011
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The Georgia Museum of Art's quarterly publication.TRANSCRIPT
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Spring 2011
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Donor Spotlight:Carl Mullis
Exhibitions:All Creatures Great and Small
Elegant Salute Recap:Metamorphosis
My last letter to you was a cascade of names, a listing of every one of
our donors to Phase II, and in some ways this one will be no different,
but I promise fewer names and a bit more prose. Our reopening
ceremonies, which lasted a week and a half, all things considered, could
not have been more of a success. The marathon round of ribbon-
cuttings on Friday, Jan. 28, kicked off the celebrations and lasted all day,
followed by Elegant Salute XII: Metamorphosis the next evening, when
we were joined by 371 of our supporters and President Michael Adams
to reopen the new building officially. That Sunday featured a preview for
our loyal Friends members, with angelic song by the Georgia Children’s
Chorus. Receptions and days devoted to UGA faculty and staff, UGA
Physical Plant workers and UGA students followed. The latter provided
some of the most thrilling moments of the week when 2,053 students
showed up for our “Reopening Remixed” evening, from 7 p.m. to
midnight. They were everywhere in the galleries, enthusing over the art
and the space, discussing it with their classmates and putting on quite
a fashion show. It was an amazing infusion of youth and a reminder that
academic purpose does not have to mean stuffiness. We had wonderful
lectures by artists Beverly Pepper and Anthony Goicolea (a graduate
of UGA and a former student at the museum) as well, and the week
finished up with a classy performance by Modern Skirts organized by
the Young at Art committee of the Friends and a massive Family Day
that drew 662 visitors.
I thank everyone who attended all the events and, even more so,
all those who made them happen: my dedicated staff, our devoted
volunteers, those who assembled the tents and mopped the floors, our
team of architects (Gluckman Mayner of New York, Stanley Beaman &
Sears of Atlanta and the Office of University Architects), Holder
Construction, Grant Collaborative (in Canton, Ga., who designed our new
banners and coined the phrase “Art
Expands”), the university administration,
especially the Office of the Senior Vice
President for External Affairs, every
single donor to Phase II and many more.
No doubt, you have already noticed
the new look of our newsletter, now dubbed Facet, both to evoke the different faces of a gemstone or work of art and to
call to mind the word’s roots in the process of making objects. Our website (now www.georgiamuseum.org) has been
updated as well, both by The Adsmith, and we admire their care and aesthetics in crafting print and web materials
that match our new space in sleekness, beauty and functionality. As I said at Elegant Salute, this building symbolizes
our dedication to the proposition that the essential mission of an art museum, the core of its raison d’être, is that
indefinable connection, that experience of one man, one woman, one child and one work of art. Sadly, one of those
individuals is no longer with us. Boone Knox, a great patron of this museum passed away Jan. 13. His philanthropy
was well known throughout the state, and we are truly sad he was not able to see the culmination of a project to which
he gave so much. Our condolences to George-Ann and her family.
One last bit of news: if you have not already received notice of them, please jot down our new hours, which, due
to an ever-shrinking allotment of state funding, include fewer in which our galleries are open to the public. Fortunately,
we have our sculpture garden and more with which to keep our visitors busy from 10 a.m. until the galleries open at
noon, and we are still open to classes and school groups Monday and Tuesday by appointment.
It truly is a new era for the Georgia Museum of Art, one in which we will refashion the museum, as we have the
building, into a 21st-century agora of ideas, objects and people.
William U. Eiland, Director
From the Director
Georgia Museum of Art
University of Georgia
90 Carlton Street
Athens, GA 30602-6719
www.georgiamuseum.org
Admission: Free ($3 suggested donation)
HOURS
Galleries: Open to classes and school
groups by appointment only, Monday and
Tuesday. Open to the public Wednesday,
Friday and Saturday, 12–5 p.m.;
Thursday, 12–9 p.m.; Sunday, 1–5 p.m.
First floor lobby, Jane and
Harry Willson Sculpture Garden:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,
10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.–9 p.m.;
Sunday, 1 p.m.–5 p.m. Closed on Mondays.
Museum Shop: Tuesday, Wednesday,
Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.–4:45 p.m.;
Thursday, 10 a.m.–8:45 p.m.; Sunday,
1 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Closed on Mondays.
Ike & Jane at the Georgia Museum of Art:
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
706.542.GMOA (4662)
Fax: 706.542.1051
Exhibition Line: 706.542.3254
Department of PublicationsHillary Brown and Mary Koon
Publications InternsMichael Tod Edgerton
Kaitlin Springmier
DesignThe Adsmith
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Mission StatementThe Georgia Museum of Art shares
the mission of the University of Georgia
to support and to promote teaching,
research and service. Specifically, as
a repository and educational instrument
of the visual arts, the museum exists
to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret
significant works of art.
Partial support for the exhibitions and
programs at the Georgia Museum of Art
is provided by the W. Newton Morris
Charitable Foundation, the Friends of the
Georgia Museum of Art and the Georgia
Council for the Arts through the appropria-
tions of the Georgia General Assembly.
The Council is a partner agency of the
National Endowment for the Arts. Individuals,
foundations and corporations provide
additional support through their gifts to
the Arch Foundation and the University of
Georgia Foundation.The Georgia Museum
of Art is ADA compliant; the M. Smith
Griffith Auditorium is equipped for the
hearing-impaired.
Board of AdvisorsMr. B. Heyward Allen Jr.Dr. Amalia K. AmakiMrs. Frances Aronson-HealeyTurner I. Ball, M.D.Mr. Fred D. Bentley Sr.Mr. Richard E. BerkowitzMrs. Devereux C. BurchMr. Robert E. BurtonMrs. Debbie C. CallawayMr. Randolph W. CampMrs. Shannon I. Candler, past chairMrs. Faye S. ChambersMr. Harvey J. ColemanMrs. Martha T. DinosMrs. Annie Laurie DoddMs. Sally DorseyProfessor Marvin Eisenberg
Ms. Carlyn F. FisherMr. James B. FleeceMr. Edgar J. Forio Jr.Mr. Harry L. Gilham Jr.Mr. John M. GreeneMrs. Helen C. GriffithMrs. M. Smith Griffith Mrs. Marion E. JarrellProfessor John D. KehoeMrs. George-Ann KnoxMrs. Shell H. KnoxMr. David W. MathenyMs. Catherine A. MayMrs. Helen P. McConnellMr. Mark G. McConnellMrs. Marilyn McMullanMrs. Marilyn D. McNeely Mrs. Berkeley S. MinorMr. C.L. Morehead Jr.
Ms. Jane C. MullinsMr. Carl W. Mullis III, chairMr. Donald G. MyersMrs. Betty R. MyrtleDr. John NickersonMrs. Deborah L. O’KainMrs. Janet W. PattersonMs. Kathy B. PrescottDr. William F. Prokasy IVMr. Rowland A. Radford Jr. Ms. Margaret A. RolandoMr. Alan F. Rothschild Jr.Mrs. Dorothy A. Roush Mrs. Sarah P. SamsMr. D. Jack Sawyer Jr.Mrs. Helen H. Scheidt Mr. Henry C. SchwobMrs. Ann C. ScogginsMs. Cathy Selig-Kuranoff
Mr. S. Stephen Selig IIIMrs. Dudley R. StevensMrs. Carolyn W. TannerMrs. Judith M. Taylor Mrs. Barbara Auxier TurnerMr. C. Noel WadsworthMs. Kathleen E. WalkerMr. G. Vincent West
Ex-officioMs. Karen L. BensonMrs. Linda C. ChesnutDr. William U. EilandMr. Tom LandrumProfessor Jere W. MoreheadDr. Libby V. MorrisMs. Georgia Strange
Our reopening ceremonies, which lasted a week and a half, all things considered, could not have been more of a success.
The staff join me in thanking the board of the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art for all their help not only during the planning of Metamorphosis and its lovely conclusion but for so many other instances of its members’
support. The Friends Board truly forms the core of the community that surrounds the Georgia Museum of Art.
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Contents
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Elegant Salute Recap
Exhibitions
Donor Spotlight: Carl Mullis
Publication Spotlight: “Tracing Vision: Modern
Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art”
Collections
Calendar of Events
Museum Notes/Gifts
Event Photos
Elegant Salute Recap
04Exhibitions
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F E A T U R E S
Publication Spotlight
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On the cover: Pots on extended loan from the Carl and
Marian Mullis Collection. See page 8 for more information.
Clockwise from top left: M. Smith Griffith Grand Hall,
UGA President Michael Adams, event co-chairs Rinne Allen
and Betsy Dorminey (photo: GMOA), GMOA banner and
decorations, Cameron and Patrick Garrard and Gary Thompson.
All photography by Zoomworks unless otherwise noted.
This year’s Elegant Salute grossed more
than $178,000 through ticket sales
and sponsorships, much of which will go
toward educational programming. The
fundraising committee was led by Athens
architect David Matheny and supported
by a host of volunteers including Atlanta
fundraising co-chairs Carolyn Tanner and
Sally Dorsey. Metamorphosis set records
in both fundraising and attendance, with
more than 370 guests, including Georgia
native and UGA alumnus Anthony Goicolea.
Goicolea is an internationally renowned artist
Elegant Salute: Metamorphosis Recap
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Photos on page 5 top to bottom:
1. Left to right: Becky Matheny, David Matheny, Martha Daura
2. Left to right: Gary Bertsch, Joni Bertsch, Bill Willson,
Jane Willson, Susan Willson
3. Left to right: Jim Cooper, Will Power, Amburn Power
4. Left to right: Sally Westmoreland, Betty Stephens
5. Paula Lavin
based in Brooklyn, N.Y., and his work is currently
on display in one of the museum’s five new
special exhibitions.
The theme, Metamorphosis, was fully embodied
through meticulous details and decorations.
Guests entered the event through a white tent
lit by chandeliers where they were greeted
with hand-cut butterflies labled with their table
assignment. A motif of origami butterflies was
strung throughout the museum, and table linens
were stamped with the images, which also
adorned the invitations, the evening’s program
and the note cards guests took home as a favor.
The night began with cocktails and hors
d’oeuvres as guests trickled in to the gala. Dinner,
provided by Epting Events, was served in the new
magnificent M. Smith Griffith Grand Hall. The
tables were decorated with whimsical centerpieces
made of wooden tree stumps, brightly colored
flowers and a handmade butterfly sculpture, fitting
the evening’s theme.
Dinner was followed by dancing in the Jane
and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden to music
by local band Grogus. Guests enjoyed tours of
the galleries and were encouraged to explore the
new Georgia Museum of Art throughout the night.
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Alfred Heber Holbrook Society
Mrs. M. Smith Griffith
Boone and George-Ann Knox
Mr. C.L. Morehead Jr. and
Flowers, Inc. Wholesale
Ms. Kathy B. Prescott and
Mr. Grady Thrasher
Benefactor
Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Candler
Mrs. Helen C. Griffith
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis O’Kain
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Patterson
Mrs. Dorothy A. Roush
Mrs. Dudley Stevens
Mr. and Mrs. Ian Walker
Patron
Mr. and Mrs. B. Heyward Allen Jr.
Ms. Karen Benson and
Mr. Howard Scott
Chris and Hillary Bilheimer
Mr. and Mrs. E. Davison Burch
Burman Printing/Walton Media
Mr. and Mrs. W. Edward Chambers
Dr. and Mrs. Mark Ellis
John and Martha Ezzard,
Tiger Mountain Vineyards
Heyward Allen Motor Compay
Holder Construction Company
Mrs. Lidwina Kelly
Mr. Matt Kendall,
The Kendall Collection
Dr. and Mrs. D. Hamilton Magill
Mr. and Mrs. David Matheny
John and Marilyn M. McMullan
Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Mullis III
Mrs. Doris Ramsey
Jack Sawyer and Bill Torres
Stanley Beaman & Sears
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Winthrop II
Drs. Norman J. and Mary M. Wood
Director’s Circle
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Berkowitz
Bernstein Funeral Home
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Burton
Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Cabaniss
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Carleton
Chastain and Associates
Dr. and Mrs. James W. Cooper Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. John R. Curtis
Mr. and Mrs. A. Blair Dorminey
Mr. and Mrs. Bertis E. Downs IV
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Dyer
Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Ellison
Mr. Todd Emily
Dr. Mary Erlanger
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Forio Jr.
Col. and Mrs. Thomas N. Gibson III
Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Gilham Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hathaway
Ms. Clementi L-B Holder
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jarrell
Ms. Marylin Johnson
Mr. Thomas Edward Kurtz
Mr. and Mrs. Mark McConnell
Marilyn DeLong McNeely
Mr. and Mrs. H. Daniels Minor
Don and Susan Myers
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Myrtle
Dr. and Mrs. Randall Ott
Dr. and Mrs. William L. Power
Dr. and Mrs. William F. Prokasy IV
Mr. and Mrs. Rowland A. Radford Jr.
R.E.M./Athens LLC
Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Sams
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Scoggins
Mr. Lee Smith and Ms. Rinne Allen
Mr. and Mrs. Billy S. Smith
Honorable and Mrs. Homer M. Stark
Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Strater
Mr. and Mrs. W. Rhett Tanner
Judy and Tom Taylor
UGA Alumni Association
David and Cecelia Warner
Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Whitworth
Wimberly, Lawson, Steckel,
Schneider & Stine PC
Zoomworks
Additional Gifts
Mr. Walter Allen
Mr. and Mrs. Denny Galis
Mr. and Mrs. David Hally
Ms. Gail Hutchins
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Knappenberger
Mrs. Barbara Laughlin
Dr. and Mrs. H.C. McLeod III
Mr. Michael McQueen
Ms. Vonceil Payne
Ms. Anne Wall Thomas
Mrs. Amanda Thompson
Mrs. Patricia Wright
and to our committee members:
Rinne Allen, event co-chair
Betsy Dorminey, event co-chair
Fundraising Committee
David Matheny (chair)
Buddy Allen
Karen Benson
Devereux Burch
Sally Dorsey
Doris Ramsey
Chris Peterson
Ann Scoggins
Carolyn Tanner
Carol Winthrop
Decorations Committee
Lucy Gillis (co-chair)
Wendy Hanson (co-chair)
Hillary Bilheimer
Amy Flurry
Cameron Garrard
Gena Knox
Hollis McFadden
Michael Montesani
Lori Paluck
Tami Ramsay
Allyn Rippin
Tabatha Tucker
Seating
Ann Scoggins
THE DONORS WHO NAMED the galleries
and other spaces received a medal commem-
orating the museum’s reopening, custom-made
in Crawford, Ga., by sculptor Beverly Babb.
Welded in steel, the medallion features rebar
(one of Babb’s signature materials) trim,
which reflects the museum’s industrial design
elements, and a leaf representing the American
hornbeam, the native trees planted as mem-
orials in the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture
Garden. Babb also made individual hornbeam
leaves for GMOA staff members, given in
appreciation for their hard work and dedication.
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Special thanks to our sponsors:
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Exhibitions
This exhibition features American watercolors from the mid-19th century to the
1970s from the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art. Paintings
by Jasper Francis Cropsey, William Stanley Haseltine and Frederic Remington
demonstrate the importance of the medium in American 19th-century art while
American moderns Charles Burchfield, John Marin and Andrew Wyeth represent
true masters of watercolor. Some American painters used the medium to create
drawings or compositional studies, including Elaine de Kooning in her sketch of a
sculpture in Paris. Others used it to make a final, finished product, emphasizing
technique and enjoying its immediacy and spontaneity. Robert Bechtle’s “Palm
Spring Chairs” (1975) is a highly detailed and meticulously painted watercolor that
has the feel of a vacation snapshot of a motel pool.
Gallery: Lamar Dodd Gallery
Sponsors: Kathy Prescott and Grady Thrasher, YellowBook USA,
the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of
the Georgia Museum of Art
Dalí Illustrates Dante’s “Divine Comedy” April 10–June 19, 2011
Organized by the Las Cruces Museum of Art in New Mexico, this exhibition includes
all 100 prints from Salvador Dalí’s “Divine Comedy” Suite and is part of a 10-city national
tour developed and managed by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services. In 1957, the Italian
government commissioned Salvador Dalí to illustrate Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy.”
Dalí’s 100 watercolors were to be reproduced as wood engravings and released as a
limited-edition print suite in honor of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s birth. When the
project was announced to the public, Italians were outraged that a Spaniard had been
chosen for it and the commission was rescinded. Dalí, confident that a publisher could be
found, continued to work. In order to translate Dalí’s watercolors into printed plates, two
artists hand-carved 3,500 blocks, a process that lasted five years. French publishers
Éditions les Heures Claires and Éditions Joseph Horet jointly produced the “Divine Comedy”
Print Suite in 1964. Dalí considered this project one of the most important of his career.
The catalogue of the exhibition is available for purchase in the Museum Shop.
Galleries: Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries
Sponsors: Shannon and Peter Candler in honor of Dr. Peter M. Candler Jr. and Matthew
Warren Candler, the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the
Georgia Museum of Art
American Watercolors from the Permanent CollectionMay 14–August 7, 2011
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The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen CollectionBoone and George-Ann Knox I, Rachel Cosby
Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook, Charles B.
Presley Family and Lamar Dodd Galleries
On view through May 1
The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of ArtMay 14–August 7, 2011
This selection of 53 works on paper produced in the 16th,
17th and 18th centuries by such renowned artists as
Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Parmigianino draws largely
on the collection of Giuliano Ceseri, on long-term loan to
the Georgia Museum of Art. Guest curators Robert Randolf
Coleman and Babette Bohn chose prints and drawings that
demonstrate the importance of disegno, or drawing, as an
essential skill for artists of the period. As paper became more
widely available, drawing was used as a preparatory stage
for more finished works of art and prints enabled artists to
disseminate their work more widely. A full-color companion
catalogue is available for purchase in the Museum Shop.
Galleries: Boone and George-Ann Knox I, Rachel Cosby
Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook and Charles B. Presley
Family Galleries
Sponsors: Mrs. M. Smith Griffith, Boone and
George-Ann Knox, C.L. Morehead Jr., YellowBook USA,
the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the
Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art
All Creatures Great and SmallApril 2011–April 2012Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta
Part of the Airport Art Program, Department of Aviation, Hartsfield-Jackson
International Airport, this special exhibition from the Georgia Museum of
Art’s permanent collection and the collection of Atlanta collector Carl Mullis
features 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
will be on display in the Atlanta airport’s T gates for 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.
Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir’s “Horizons”Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden
On view through June 30
Stone and Steel: Small Works by Beverly PepperDorothy Alexander Roush and Martha
Thompson Dinos Galleries
On view through July 29
Works of Art view left to right, top to bottom
Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989)
The Waterfall of the Phlegethon
Inferno, Canto 34
Color woodblock print
13 x 10 inches
© 2008 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador
Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights
Society (ARS), New York
Jasper Francis Cropsey
(American, 1823–1900)
The Palisades, Hudson River, 1891
Watercolor on paper
12 7/8 x 20 7/8 inches
Georgia Museum of Art, University
of Georgia; Museum purchase with
funds provided by the W. Newton
Morris Charitable Foundation
GMOA 2003.15
Giambattista Tiepolo(Venetian, 1696–1770)
Death Giving Audience,
from the Capricci, 1743–49
Etching on off-white laid paper
5 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches (sheet)
Georgia Museum of Art, University
of Georgia; Museum purchase with
funds provided by the bequest of
Leighton Ballew
GMOA 1998.38
O.L. Samuels
(American, b. 1931)
Stormy Weather, n.d.
Painted wood and wig
Approx. 60 1/2 x 52 x 16 1/2 inches
Collection of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl W. Mullis III
“snowscape”A photo mural and video installation by
Anthony Goicolea. Patsy Dudley Pate
Balcony and Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery
On view through July 31
Don’t miss:
(A detail of this image appears on
the back cover of this newsletter.)
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1. Left: Dave Drake or “Dave the Potter”
(ca. 1780–ca. 1883, active Edgefield County,
South Carolina)
Storage jar, ca. 1830–60
Stoneware with alkaline glaze
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia;
Extended loan from Carl and Marian Mullis
GMOA 2010.10E
1. Right: Dave Drake or “Dave the Potter”
(ca. 1780–ca. 1883, active Edgefield County,
South Carolina)
Jug, ca. 1830–60
Stoneware with alkaline glaze
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia;
Extended loan from Carl and Marian Mullis
GMOA 2010.11E
2. Left: Collin Rhodes (1811–1881,
active Edgefield County, South Carolina)
Jug, ca. 1850
Stoneware with alkaline glaze and
kaolin slip decoration
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia;
Extended loan from Carl and Marian Mullis
GMOA 2010.50E
2. Center: Thomas Chandler (1810–1854,
active Edgefield County, South Carolina)
Storage jar, ca. 1850
Stoneware with alkaline glaze and
kaolin slip decoration
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia;
Extended loan from Carl and Marian Mullis
GMOA 2010.12E
2. Right: Collin Rhodes (1811–1881,
active Edgefield County, South Carolina)
Jug, ca. 1847
Stoneware with alkaline glaze and
bichrome slip decoration
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia;
Extended loan from Carl and Marian Mullis
GMOA 2011.1E
2a. Page 9, top: Detail showing incised signature,
“C. Rhodes Maker 1847.” (Detail also appears on
page 3 of this newsletter.)
3. Left: Lucius Jordan (1816–ca. 1880,
active Washington County, Georgia)
Storage jar, ca. 1850
Stoneware with alkaline glaze
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia;
Extended loan from Carl and Marian Mullis
GMOA 2010.13E
3. Center: Foreman Pottery Company
(active Lanier County, Georgia, 1885–1910)
Pot with lid, or “bean pot,” ca. 1890
Stoneware with alkaline glaze
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia;
Extended loan from Carl and Marian Mullis
GMOA 2010.15E
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Donor Spotlight
AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT:Carl Mullis and the Gift of Art
4. Right: Nelson Bass (1846–1918,
Lincoln County, North Carolina)
Storage jug, or “syrup jug,” ca. 1880
Stoneware with alkaline glaze
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia;
Extended loan from Carl and Marian Mullis
GMOA 2010.6E
I’m standing in the newly opened galleries of the Georgia Museum of Art, having just perused the various works of
folk art given by Carl and Marian Mullis,
including R.A. Miller’s “All the Devils,” and
such objects of decorative art on extended
loan from the Mullises as a 19th-century
haint-blue yellow-pine quilt frame and
cupboard, both crafted by unidentified
makers in Georgia (and more precious still
for having original, unrestored surfaces),
when none other than Carl Mullis, whose
reign as chair of the museum’s board of
advisors has been dubbed “the era of
‘Carl the Magnanimous’” by museum
director Bill Eiland, walks into the new
wing. I approached him for a brief
interview and he congenially agreed.
It turns out that Mullis, an avid
collector and art lover, had never even set
foot in a museum before he entered
college. As he told me that afternoon,
and as he writes in his essay in the
exhibition catalogue “Amazing Grace:
Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis
Collection,” “I was lucky—lucky to
go college at Yale University, where there
is great art; lucky to have a scholarship
job at the Yale Art and Architecture Library
where I was exposed to art books, art
students and artists; lucky to have several
friends and classmates who were art
majors. Through simple osmosis I began
to acquire a love for art.”1
After agreeing to chat with me, Mullis
led me directly into the Martha and
Eugene Odum Gallery of Decorative Arts
and over to the cases of stoneware.
Originally from a small town in South
Carolina, Mullis started collecting pottery
from the Edgefield County, South Carolina,
area, and other works of decorative art
from around the country in 2009. He
appreciates that these objects had a
utilitarian value, yet remain beautiful works
of art. He explained that pottery glazes
once contained lead and told me how
South Carolina potters learned to make
alkaline glaze out of wood ash, a process
they read about in a book by a 16th-cen-
tury missionary, who detailed the process
as practiced in China, where it had been
used for centuries.
Among these objects are two exquisite
pots by David Drake, an enslaved potter
and poet who was literate during a time
when it was illegal for slaves to learn to
write. Adjunct curator of decorative arts
Dale Couch had put a work by Drake “at
the top of the wish list,” never expecting to
showcase it in the Odum Gallery for the
museum’s reopening. As luck would have
it, Couch reports, it was only a few months
later when “Carl called me and asked me
to examine two Drake pieces he obtained
at auction in South Carolina—I was
delighted.” As Couch explains, “When I
began planning the Odum Gallery, I
wished to emphasize the decorative arts of
ordinary people of our state and region to
present the aesthetic dimension of
19th-century Georgians. Perhaps the
pinnacle of vernacular craft in the lower
Southern Piedmont is represented by the
important alkaline stoneware produced
there.”
Mullis’s favorite jug, he told me, and
one of the most special objects in his
collection, is the one Collin Rhodes
made in 1847. What makes it unique,
he explained, is the presence both of
Rhodes’s signature and the decorative
element. On the front is a flower, whose
large leaves spread out like wings and
remind Mullis of an eagle or angel taking
flight. Serendipity played a large part in
his acquisition of this cherished piece. As
Mullis tells it, he just happened to be in
the right place at the right time to buy it
from a collector who had owned it for
30-odd years. Within an hour of speaking
with him, Mullis had acquired it.
It is both luck and skill, a keen eye and
a passion for art that has led Mullis to
build his amazing collection. According to
Couch, “Without the Mullis Collection on
extended loan, the common people of our
state’s history—the folk—would go
underrepresented in our collection. He
has tirelessly supported our programs in
many different ways; his enthusiasm is
both contagious and admirable. Working
with Carl has been a high point of my
tenure at GMOA.”
Michael Tod EdgertonPublications intern
1Carl Mullis, “Notes from a Collector,” in
Amazing Grace: Self-Taught Artists from
the Mullis Collection, exh. cat. (Athens:
Georgia Museum of Art, 2007), 11.
3. Right: Billy Bryant (late 19th century,
active Crawford County, Georgia)
Storage jar, ca. 1880
Stoneware with alkaline glaze
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia;
Extended loan from Carl and Marian Mullis
GMOA 2010.14E
4. Left: Unidentified maker (probably a
mid-19th-century member of the Fox or Webster
families of the eastern Piedmont of North Carolina)
Storage jug, or “syrup jug,” ca. 1850
Stoneware with salt glaze
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia;
Extended loan from Carl and Marian Mullis
GMOA 2010.7E
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Originally from a small town in South Carolina, Mullis started collecting pottery from the Edgefield County, South Carolina, area, and other works of decorative art from around the country in 2009.
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BEVERLY BUCHANAN’S WORKS ON THE THEME OF SOUTHERN SHACK ARCHITECTURE draw upon her memories and on buildings she has discovered in Georgia and the Carolinas. Her pieces include mixed-media sculpture, large-scale oil pastels and photographs (which also serve as source material for her other work). Their subjects speak to marginal existence and the will to survive. As an African American growing to maturity in the South, Buchanan had opportunity to develop a special sympathy for blacks experiencing those conditions, although the artist emphasizes that her concerns operate more universally, transcending issues of race.1 Her work also celebrates the shack dwellers’ colorful personalities and their ingenuity and creativity in building, as well as documents a type of structure that often falls victim to decay and area development. Although Buchanan’s own childhood in the South was not deprived, she had frequent contact with hardscrab-ble life, especially in accompanying her father, dean of the agricultural school at South Carolina State College, on trips to advise those struggling to cultivate land.
Publication Spotlight
Beverly Buchanan (American, b. 1940)Jamestown, 1992Oil pastel on paper38 1/4 x 50 inchesGeorgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James NortonGMOA 1996.14
In 1977, Buchanan, who had been working in New Jersey in public health education, abandoned her plans to become a doctor and moved to Georgia to pursue a career in art. She had been creating Abstract Expressionist paintings and experimenting with more
1. See Buchanan’s statement in 1991 to Trinkett Clark: “One
important thing to clarify is that these shacks are not just about
black people. They are based on people that I knew growing up
who were black. Once I became an adult I saw other people
living in similar conditions. . . . These are not necessarily black
or white structures” (Clark, Parameters, exh. broch. [Norfolk, VA:
Chrysler Museum, 1992], n.p.).
2. Although Buchanan never enrolled in a studio degree
program, she did study in 1971 at the Art Students League
with Norman Lewis, whose work she admired; he and Romare
Bearden became important mentors to her.
3. My thanks to Beverly Buchanan and to Jane Bridges, who
provided information from the artist in an e-mail to me on
An excerpt from “Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings fromthe Georgia Museum of Art,” edited by Carol A. Nathanson
B E V E R LY B U C H A N A N
three-dimensional formats and was beginning to exhibit in New York and elsewhere.2 After settling in Macon, Buchanan received increasing attention for her sculptures, arrangements of textural, blocky forms in cast cement suggestive of ruins, and in 1980 she was awarded Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. In the mid- to late 1980s, she devel-oped her now familiar series of shack sculptures and drawings, the drawings beginning near the end of the decade. In 1985, Buchanan moved to Atlanta and then settled in Athens, Ga., in 1987. Although she still maintains a home in Athens, her primary residence is in Ann Arbor, Mich.3
In her three-dimensional pieces, Buchanan adopts a more specific, individualized approach to subjects than in her drawings. Although the Georgia Museum’s composition was inspired by Jamestown, a small South Carolina community, the artist notes that her depiction largely represents “a composite of coastal South Carolina towns.”4 Buchanan’s drawings of those places are imaginative and highly poetic. Typically, her shacks have an anthropomorphic vitality reminiscent of Charles Burchfield’s small-town structures. In “Jamestown”, the houses, stilted to protect them from floodwaters, appear to shamble together to communicate.
Buchanan extends the energy of the buildings’ warped contours and skewed boarding into actively sketched surroundings in which red predominates. In the lower area, deep-toned red joins a riot of other colors to describe tall sea grasses in frenzied strokes. Nature and human presence seem conjoined in this vibrant composition.5 The work’s odd shapes and colors give the familiar a sense of fantasy and mystery, an effect reinforced by the houses’ closed-in appearance.6
The artist’s naïve-looking images and the immediacy of her execution continue approaches adopted by early-20th–century Expressionists, who took inspira-tion from children’s and folk art. For late-20th–century Neo-Expressionists like Buchanan, an important source is street art, appealing in its multicultural authorship and narratives. Buchanan’s work also displays a contemporary insistence (encouraged by Abstract Expressionist practice) on transgressing media “purity.” Her drawings, executed on a scale associated with painting, devote equal attention to graphic notation and color, their oil pastel medium contributing to their hybrid existence. Work in traditional pastel chalks is often described in terms of its relationship to both drawing and painting and has even been regarded as a form of painting.
“Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art” is for sale in the Museum Shop, located in the museum
lobby and online. Carol A. Nathanson will give a gallery talk and
sign copies of her book on Thursday, April 7, at 5:30 p.m. See
the calendar on page 12 for more information.
Beverly Buchanan’s works
on the theme of southern
shack architecture
draw upon her memories
and on buildings she has
discovered in Georgia
and the Carolinas.
October 26, 2010.
4. Ibid.
5. Buchanan points up that interconnectedness in describing the
shacks of this “middle southern coastal world” as “set in . . . their
own soup” (comments to Eleanor Flomenhaft, “Shack Portraiture:
An Interview with Beverly Buchanan,” in Flomenhaft and others,
Beverly Buchanan: ShackWorks/A 16-Year Survey [Montclair, NJ:
Montclair Art Museum, 1994], 14).
6. Not surprisingly, one of the artists with whose work Buchanan
feels a connection is Betye Saar (Flomenhaft interview, 14–15).
Saar’s mixed-media assemblages, which often contain architec-
tural elements, reflect that artist’s strong interest in occult
knowledge and practices, including voodoo.
(A detail of this image appears on page 3 of this newsletter.)
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Collections: NEW ACQUISITIONS
Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874–1949)San Rafael, 1928Oil on panelGeorgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Promised gift of Martha Randolph Daura GMOA 2010.47E
Torres-García was a prominent proponent of abstraction in Europe and Latin America, a friend and colleague of
Pierre Daura and a fellow cofounder of the artists’ group Cercle et Carré. “San Rafael,” painted shortly before the
founding of Cercle et Carré, marks an important moment in Torres-García’s development of his abstract style. This
painting’s gridlike composition is indebted to Piet Mondrian’s theory of reconciling polar opposites, embodied in
the meeting of vertical and horizontal lines. The artist also made frequent use of the golden section in his quest
for pictorial perfection, what Torres called “Constructive Universalism.” The pictographic abstractions of people
and buildings in “San Rafael” are one of the hallmarks of his mature style and show his interest in pre-Columbian
objects and designs.
Camille Magnus (French, 1850–?) Boisière à l'orée du bois, n.d. Oil on canvasGeorgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Frances Aronson-Healey in progressAccession number pending
Magnus was a member of the Barbizon school
of painting, centered around the French town
of Barbizon, near Fontainebleau Forest, south of
Paris. The group is often considered a precursor
to Impressionism because of the artists’ rejection
of academic theory and tradition. As is typical
of the school, this painting depicts, in loose,
painterly brushstrokes, a moment of everyday
rural life: here, a woman working at the edge
of the woods.
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To schedule a class visit or student assignment at the Georgia Museum of Art, please call us at 706.542.GMOA (4662) at least two weeks prior to the visit. Scheduling in advance enables us to prepare for your visit whether it is a docent-led tour, a self-guided visit led by an instructor or students who will be coming on their own to complete an assignment.
Calendar : Spring 2011 Special Events
Keepin’ It Surreal: Student Night at GMOAThursday, April 21, 7 p.m.–MidnightAll students are invited to this GMOA Student
Association–sponsored event. The evening will
include live music, DIY crafting, photo booth,
tours and the game Exquisite Corpse.
An Evening of Writing and ArtThursday, April 28, 7 p.m.M. Smith Griffith AuditoriumUGA Professor Judith Ortiz Cofer’s advanced creative
writing class presents an evening of creative writing
inspired by works of art in the museum’s permanent
collection. A reception will follow.
The Collectors Fundraiser Celebrating Our Collectors: A 10th Anniversary BashFriday, April 29, 6 p.m.Lyndon House Arts Center/GMOAThe Collectors will gather at 6 p.m. at the Lyndon House
Arts Center for an exhibition of the talented Peg Wood’s
art and a champagne toast. Cocktails, dinner and a silent
auction, which will include items from the fashionable
Ms. Faye Chambers’ closet, will follow at 7 p.m. at the
Georgia Museum of Art. Collectors, $65 per person or
$125 per couple; non-members, $80 per person or $150
per couple. Please respond to 706.542.GMOA (4662) by
April 22.
Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art Annual MeetingTuesday, May 17, 5:30–8 p.m.M. Smith Griffith AuditoriumThe Friends of the Museum will celebrate the past year’s
achievements and announce the 2011 recipient of the
“Smitty,” the M. Smith Griffith Volunteer of the Year
Award. A reception will follow. This event is free and the
public is invited.
Tour at Two: Highlights from the Permanent CollectionWednesday, April 6, April 13, May 4, May 11, May 18, June 1 and June 29, 2 p.m.Join docents for a tour of highlights from
the permanent collection.
Spotlight Tour: Highlights from the Permanent CollectionSunday, April 10 and May 22, 3 p.m.Join docents for a tour of highlights from
the permanent collection.
Tour at Two: “The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection”Wednesday, April 20, 2 p.m. Join docents for a tour of this exhibition of prints and
drawings on view for the first time at GMOA.
Tour at Two: “Dalí Illustrates Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’”Wednesday, April 27, 2 p.m.Join Lynn Boland, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art,
for a tour of 100 illustrations of Dante’s “Divine Comedy”
by Salvador Dalí.
Tour at Two: “American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection”Wednesday, May 25, 2 p.m.Join Paul Manoguerra, chief curator and curator
of American art, for a tour of significant watercolors
from the museum’s holdings.
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This lecture, held in conjunction with the exhibition
“Dalí Illustrates Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’” features two
experts from the field: Saiber, scholar of Italian literature
and the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards,
including a Villa I Tatti Fellowship from the Harvard
University Center for Renaissance Studies; and King, a
leader in the critical study of the artist’s work after 1940
and guest curator of “Dalí: The Late Work,” a major
exhibition recently on view at the High Museum of Art.
Family Day: Make it Shine!Saturday, April 2, 10 a.m–noonVisit the Phoebe and Ed Forio Gallery and the Martha and
Eugene Odum Gallery to see GMOA’s collection of silver.
After working with docents on a fun gallery activity, come
to the first-floor classroom to make beautiful shiny objects
of your own. Young musicians from UGA’s Community
Music School will perform at 10:45. Refreshments will
be served.
Family Day: Go Figure!Saturday, June 4, 10 a.m.–noonVisit the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden to see
the installation “Horizons” by Icelandic sculptor Steinunn
Thórarinsdóttir. Next, come to the first-floor classroom to
create your own figurative sculpture. Refreshments will
be served.
Family Days
Tour at Two: “The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art”Wednesday, June 8 and June 22, 2 p.m. Docents will lead a tour of Italian prints and drawings,
many of which are on extended loan to the museum
from the collection of Giuliano Ceseri.
Spotlight Tour: “The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art”Sunday, June 12, 3 p.m.
Gallery Talk and Book Signing: Tracing Vision through Modern Drawings at the Georgia Museum of ArtThursday, April 7, 5:30 p.m.M. Smith Griffith Grand HallCarol A. Nathanson, professor emeritus of art history at
Wright State University, will discuss drawings from the
museum’s permanent collection on view in the Boone
and George-Ann Knox II Gallery and featured in her
new book “Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings from the
Georgia Museum of Art.” Nathanson will also sign copies
of the book, available for purchase in the Museum Shop,
located in the museum’s lobby and online.
Lecture: “Dalí and the Surrealists: An Introduction”Thursday, April 14, 4 p.m.Lynn Boland, Pierre Daura Curator of European ArtM. Smith Griffith AuditoriumIn conjunction with the exhibition “Dalí
Illustrates Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’” organized by
the Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, N.M.,
Lynn Boland will provide a brief history of the
Surrealist movement and its underlying theories
along with an overview of Dalí’s art. Boland will also
explore the turbulent relationship Dalí had with
other Surrealists, which colored his later career.
Lecture: “Hyperdimensionality in Salvador Dalí’s Illustrations of Dante’s ‘Paradiso’”Thursday, April 21, 5:30 p.m. M. Smith Griffith Auditorium Arielle Saiber, associate professor of Italian and chair
of the department of Romance languages at Bowdoin
College, Brunswick, Maine, and Elliott King, lecturer
in European modern art at the University of Colorado
at Colorado Springs and the University of Denver.
Co-sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities
and Art.
Lectures & Gallery Talks
Workshops & Classes
Workshop: Drawing from Nature at the State Botanical Garden of GeorgiaTuesday, April 26, 4–6 p.m.State Botanical Garden of Georgia Visitor Center, Classroom 1GMOA and the Just My Imagination statewide outreach
program (sponsored by the Turner Family Foundation in
memory of Nancy C. Turner) present a workshop on
drawing from nature at the State Botanical Garden of
Georgia. Join artist Toni Carlucci to learn some of the
secrets to drawing plants, flowers and other objects of
nature using techniques that are fun, effective and easy
to practice at home. Open to children ages 8 and older.
This workshop is free, but pre-registration is required.
Call the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at
706.542.6156 to reserve a spot.
Drawing in the GalleriesThursday, May 5, May 19, June 9 and June 23, 5–8 p.m.Visitors are invited to sketch in the galleries during these
hours. No instruction provided. Pencils only.
Day camps, day care centers and community centers are invited to the Georgia Museum of Art this summer for tours and related hands-on activities. Please call 706.542.GMOA (4662) to schedule your visit.
“Un Chien Andalou” and “L’Age D’Or” Thursday, May 12, 7 p.m.M. Smith Griffith AuditoriumIn conjunction with the exhibition “Dalí Illustrates Dante’s
‘Divine Comedy,’” the museum will screen two of the
best-known Surrealist films of the avant-garde, both
collaborations between Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel
and Salvador Dalí: “Un Chien Andalou” (1929), a silent
film (French with English intertitles, 16 minutes) and
“L’Age D’Or” (1930), Buñuel’s first feature film (French
with English subtitles, 63 minutes).
“Herb and Dorothy”Thursday, June 16, 7 p.m.M. Smith Griffith Auditorium“Herb and Dorothy” (2008) tells the extraordinary story
of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a
librarian, who managed to build one of the most impor-
tant contemporary art collections in history with very
modest means. Directed by first-time filmmaker Megumi
Sasaki, the film received the Golden Starfish Award for
the Best Documentary Film and Audience Award from
the 2008 Hamptons International Film Festival. (English,
89 minutes).
Films are generously sponsored by the UGA Parents & Families Association.
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Check our website for the most recent information on events: www.georgiamuseum.orgAll events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Family Day programs are sponsored by Heyward Allen Motor Co., Inc., Heyward Allen Toyota, YellowBook USA and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art and are free and open to the public.
The Georgia Museum of Art would like to thank those who generously sponsored GMOA on the Move events while the museum was closed for construction: Ashford Manor, Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation,
The Athens Blur Magazine, Brick House Studio, Ciné, Flagpole, Lyndon House Arts Center, Mirko Pasta, C.L. Morehead Jr.,
The National, Dr. Richard Neupert, Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, Stan Mullins Studio, State Botanical Garden of Georgia,
Terrapin Brewery, Tiger Mountain Vineyards, Town and Gown Players, Tim Walsh and Lamar Wood.
The Georgia Museum of Art wishes to thank those who made Art Expands, the museum’s reopening celebration, possible:The Adsmith, Big City Bread, Jenny Broadnax, Ann Cabaniss, Dondero’s Kitchen, Earthfare, Five & Ten, Five Star Day,
Flowers, Inc., the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art, Grant Design Collaborative, Hotel Indigo Athens,
Ike & Jane, Jimmy John’s, Jittery Joe’s Coffee, Marti’s at Midday, Moe’s Southwest Grill, The National,
Speakeasy, UGA Office of the Senior Vice President for External Affairs, White Tiger Gourmet and Zoomworks.
Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989)
The Waterfall of the Phlegethon
Inferno, Canto 34
Color woodblock print
13 x 10 inches
© 2008 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador
Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights
Society (ARS), New York
Arielle Saiber
Elliott King
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Museum Notes
WEDDINGS
Curator of Education Cecelia Hinton and David
Warner eloped in December and were married at St.
Alban’s Episcopal Church in Davisdon, N.C., by Cece’s
brother, the Reverend David Buck, Rector of St. Albans.
We are happy to present Mr. and Mrs. David Warner!
AWARDS
GMOA received six awards at the Georgia
Association of Museums and Galleries annual conference
held in Cartersville January 19–21. The museum’s out-
reach program Art Adventures won Education Program of
the Year; “Echoes from the Continent: Franco-Germanic
Chairs in Georgia,” won Museum Exhibition of the Year
(budget < $100,000); Cecelia Warner (neé Hinton) won
Museum Professional of the Year; the “Corpus of Early
Italian Paintings from North American Public Collections:
The South” won Special Project of the Year; and Betty
Myrtle took home the award for Volunteer of the Year.
Congratulations to Warner and Myrtle and also to Carissa
DiCindio, curator of education; Dale Couch, adjunct cura-
tor of decorative arts; and Cynthia Payne, special project
editor for the “Corpus.”
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Be sure to pick up copies of our new collections
catalogues, “One Hundred American Paintings,” by chief
curator and curator of American art Paul Manoguerra,
and “Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings from the Georgia
Museum of Art,” edited by Carol A. Nathanson, in the
Museum Shop, located in the museum lobby and online.
Both catalogues were published to coincide with the
museum’s grand reopening and feature essays accompa-
nied by full-color reproductions of works in the museum’s
permanent collection.
GiftsIn addition to the gifts received for Elegant Salute, listed on page 5, the Georgia Museum of Art received the following gifts between Oct. 22, 2010, and Feb. 4, 2011:
ALFRED HEBER HOLBROOK SOCIETY
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Chambers
Ms. Martha Thompson Dinos
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Forio
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gilham
Mrs. Frances Yates Green
Mrs. M. Smith Griffith
Don and Susan Myers
Ms. Kathy B. Prescott and Mr. H. Grady Thrasher III
Mr. and Mrs. Levon C. Register
Sanford H. and Barbara H. Orkin Foundation
BENEFACTORMs. Beverly Bremer
Mr. William Darrell Moseley
PATRONMr. and Mrs. Robert E. Burton
Ms. Margaret A. Rolando
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Rothschild
Drs. Norman J. and Mary M. Wood
DIRECTOR’S CIRCLEDrs. Wyatt and Margaret Anderson
Ms. Latrelle F. Brewster
Dr. and Mrs. W. Harvey Cabaniss Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Catchpole
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Currey
Mr. and Mrs. James Fleece
Mrs. Mary Ann Griffin
Mrs. Julie Green Jenkins
Mrs. Sue Weems Mann
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Roush
Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Sams III
The Selig Foundation
Mrs. Patricia G. Staub
Ms. Peggy Hoard Suddreth
The Georgia Museum of Art received the following gifts between Dec. 14, 2010, and Feb. 16, 2011:
In memory of Mrs. James Omar Cole by Mr. and Mrs. Cole Kelly
In memory of Ann Mullin Fowler by Ann Whatley Mullin
In memory of Samuel Lawton Haygood by Mr. and Mrs. Cole Kelly
In memory of Boone Aiken Knox by Dr. and Mrs. William L. Clark
and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Forio
In memory of Andrew Ladis by Patricia Wright and Shelley Zuraw
In memory of Eloise Ellis Simons by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Forio
In honor of William U. Eiland by Peggy Suddreth and Patricia Wright
In honor of Hannah Harvey on her birthday by Lyssa and Jonathan Harvey
In honor of Annelies Mondi by Patricia Wright
In honor of Carl Mullis III by his buddies at B.N.O.
In honor of Carolyn and Rhett Tanner by Dr. and Mrs. Hugh McLeod III
Jim and Rene Nalley dedicate the Marilyn Overstreet Nalley Galleries.
Kids explore the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden.
REOPENING EVENTS
Event Photos
The popular Normaltown café and bakery is now serving
fresh-made coffee, sandwiches and baked goods in the
new museum lobby.
Tuesday–Saturday 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Have breakfast, lunch or a snack, enjoy a spectacular view of the Jane and Harry Willson
Sculpture Garden and support the museum.
Ike & Jane at the Georgia Museum of Art!
NOW OPEN!
(Ike & Jane generously donates 10 percent of profits from its GMOA location to the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art!)
Ribbon Cuttings
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Membership
JOIN THE NEW GMOA!
Not a member? Join the museum during one of the
most exciting moments in its history! Join on our website,
www.georgiamuseum.org, or call 706.542.0437.
JOINBeverly Pepper
Friends Preview
Student Night
Top: Student docent Elizabeth Perry discusses Elizabeth Jane
Gardner’s “La Confidence” while other students (bottom photo)
visit the Byrnece Purcell Knox Swanson Gallery.
Martha Daura speaks to members of the Georgia Children’s
Chorus about “Martha at Thirteen,” the portrait her father,
Pierre Daura, painted of her in 1943–44.
Beverly Pepper stands in front of her sculpture “Ascension.”
The popular Normaltown café and bakery is now serving
fresh-made coffee, sandwiches and baked goods in the
new museum lobby.
Tuesday–Saturday 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Have breakfast, lunch or a snack, enjoy a spectacular view of the Jane and Harry Willson
Sculpture Garden and support the museum.
Ike & Jane at the Georgia Museum of Art!
Parking for the Georgia Museum of Art is available in the Performing Arts
Center (PAC) parking deck, which is located at the rear of lot E11 off River Road
(see map). There is no free visitor parking on campus during regular business hours.
Parking in the PAC deck is free on Saturdays and Sundays and after 5:30 p.m. on
weeknights with a valid UGA ID or permit, unless there is a special event. Free parking
(that is, parking without a permit) is available in surface lot E11 on Saturdays and
Sundays and after 4 p.m. on weekdays. For more event photos see www.flickr.com/gmoa
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