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Three new buildings, including the Anne Cox Chambers Wing (left) and Wieland Pavilion (back right), were added to the High Museum's main building (front right) in 2005. Art in the foreground is a fabrication of Roy Lichtenstein's House III (1997) and a cast of Auguste Rodin's The Shade (circa 1880).
Photograph by Jonathan Hillyer
The High Museum of Art, located on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta, houses a permanent collection of more than 11,000 pieces, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century American collections, folk art, and African art. Its current building, designed in 1983 by Richard Meier, has received awards and honors for its architectural excellence.
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The Peachtree Street residence of Harriet Harwell Wilson High was donated to the Atlanta Art Association in 1926 to house a museum. The High Museum remained in the home until 1955, when it moved into a new brick building next to the house.
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LaGrange Art Museum in LaGrange houses four galleries, in addition to classrooms, a sculpture garden, and a gift shop. The museum's collection focuses on twentieth-century art, with an emphasis on southern art.
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The LaGrange Art Museum, founded in 1963 in LaGrange, is housed in an 1892 Victorian home on Lafayette Square. The museum offers art classes for adults and children and sponsors Affair on the Square, a nationally juried arts show, and the LaGrange National, a juried art exhibition.
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A participant in the Ben Hill Art Camp at Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum (later LaGrange Art Museum) draws her self-portrait in 2004. The camp is an after-school program held during the summer in collaboration with the LaGrange Housing Authority.
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The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, dedicated in 1996 on the campus of Spelman College in Atlanta, includes approximately 450 works in its permanent collection. The primary focus of the collection is twentieth-century painting and sculpture by African American artists.
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Hale Woodruff's 1953 work Celestial Gate (oil on canvas, 50" x 40") hangs in the gallery of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. During the 1930s and 1940s, Woodruff, a prominent African American artist, was a member of Atlanta University's faculty and taught classes at Spelman.
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The Quinlan Visual Arts Center in Gainesville opened in 1962. The building, constructed on land donated by Gainesville resident Leslie Quinlan, houses the gallery and classroom space of the Gainesville Art Association, which organized in 1947.
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The Green Street Gallery at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center in Gainesville originally served as the lobby when the center was constructed in 1962. The center has displayed the work of many local artists, including Lamar Dodd, a professor at the University of Georgia, and Ed Dodd, creator of the comic strip Mark Trail.
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The Jim and Peggy Walters Lobby opened in 2004, following the expansion and renovation of the Quinlan Visual Arts Center in Gainesville. Other additions include classroom and gallery space, a conference room, and a gift shop.
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The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, founded in 1937, is housed in the former home of Nicholas Ware, the mayor of Augusta at the time of the home's construction in 1818. Today the Ware house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Gertrude Herbert Dunn was the daughter of Olivia A. Herbert, who founded the Augusta Art Club in 1937. Located in the historic Ware house, the club was later renamed the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art and today displays visiting exhibitions of regional and local artists.
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The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art in Augusta is named for the daughter of Olivia A. Herbert, who founded the Augusta Art Club, the institute's predecessor, in 1937.
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An artist participates in an acrylics workshop at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art in Augusta. The institute offers a variety of classes and worshops in its studios, classrooms, and darkrooms.
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Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Girl on a Path (no date) is housed by the Brenau University Galleries in Gainesville. The collection was initiated in 1986 and today comprises more than 1,100 paintings, sculptures, artifacts, and prints.
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Soon after becoming president of Brenau University in Gainesville in 1985, John S. Burd began the process of opening an art gallery to display student and faculty artwork. The gallery was first housed in a converted chapel in the university's Pearce Auditorium.
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The John S. Burd Center for the Performing Arts opened in March 2002 on the campus of Brenau University in Gainesville and houses the Leo Castelli Gallery. The gallery displays long-term exhibitions of art from the university's permanent collection.
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In 2002, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia unveiled an exhibition entitled Color, Culture, Complexity, curated by Ed Spriggs and Dan Talley. Pictured is the art of Billie Grace Lynn (sculpture), Joe Lewis (large installation of prints), and Linda Hesh (photographs).
Photograph by Michael McKelvey
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia was founded in 2002 in Atlanta and houses a permanent collection of more than 250 works in various media.
Photograph by Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Staff
The Greek revival–style building housing the Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art in Marietta was previously used as a post office and a library. The museum opened in 1990 and specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art.
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This bust of Tiberius, considered to be the finest existing portait of the Roman emperor, is part of the Michael C. Carlos Museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art. Carved from Parian marble, the piece dates to about A.D. 14.
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This eleventh-century sandstone sculpture from India depicts the Hindu god Vishnu in his cosmic form. Vishnu's eighteen arms hold a variety of weapons, including those of the two other gods in the Hindu trinity, Shiva and Brahma. The sculpture is part of the Ester R. Portnow Collection of Asian Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta.
Gift of Nathan Rubin-Ida Ladd Family Foundation. Courtesy of Michael C. Carlos Foundation
The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, designed by notable architect Michael Graves, offers numerous lectures, workshops, and performances as part of its educational program. Around 20,000 Georgia children visit the museum each year, and many more participate in Art Odyssey, the museum's outreach program.
Image from Gary Todd
An installation by the artist Karen Rich Beall entitled "The Dark Side of Beauty," in the Haley Gallery of the Albany Museum of Art.
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Founded in 1964, the Albany Museum of Art has one of the largest collections of African art in the Southeast.
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The Lamar Dodd Art Center at LaGrange College, completed in 1982, contains two floors of galleries. The center houses a retrospective collection of Dodd's paintings, given by the artist and his wife, Mary Lehmann, a 1929 graduate of the school.
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The artist Lamar Dodd pictured with one of his paintings in the late 1970s. Dodd was the most recognized artist of his generation from the state of Georgia, a passionate advocate for the arts, and a skilled administrator.
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At the Tubman African American Museum, changing exhibitions from the Noel Collection of African Art showcase African influence in American culture. The collection includes 2,000-year-old Nok figures, Benin bronze, and an array of jewelry, textiles, and other artifacts.
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The Tubman African American Museum in Macon is the largest of its kind in the Southeast. Founded in 1981, it has grown from a local attraction into a major collection of African American art, artifacts, and documents for national visitors.
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Schoolchildren lunch in front of the Ellen Craft exhibition. An image of Craft dressed up like a man appears with her well-known quote: "For I had much rather starve in England, a free woman, than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent."
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As the largest art museum in Georgia outside Atlanta and the only art museum within a forty-mile radius of Columbus, the Columbus Museum is a major artistic center for west central Georgia, serving more than 90,000 visitors annually.
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The art galleries at Clark Atlanta University are located in Trevor Arnett Hall.
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The antebellum portraiture gallery of the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta.
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Two Magnolia Blossoms in a Glass Vase (ca. 1890), by Martin Johnson Heade. Oil on canvas. 24" x 15".
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Benny Andrews, a native of Plainview, began experimenting with collage as a student at the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1950s. His 1994 work Preacher, oil and collage on canvas (48 x 28 inches), is housed at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta.
Courtesy of Morris Museum of Art. Reprinted by permission of Benny Andrews
The Silver Slipper Club (1990), by Jonathan Green. Oil on canvas. 100" x 65 1/2".
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Painter John Abbot's Grebe, Didapper, or Water Witch (watercolor on paper, 11 1/8" x 8 3/4") is housed at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta.
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Emma Cheves Wilkins, the third generation in a family of Savannah artists, specialized in painting portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. Her undated Blue Jug and Camellias (oil on canvas, 23" x 21") is part of the collection at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta.
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Savannah native Emma Cheves Wilkins's undated Red Shoes, Blue Vase, Glass and Carnations (oil on canvas, 20 1/4" x 24 1/8") is part of the collection at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta.
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Athos Menaboni's 1962 lithograph Mourning Dove (26" x 20") is housed at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta. Menaboni is best known for his detailed paintings of birds, usually portrayed in pairs in their natural habitats.
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In the Museum of Arts and Science's planetarium the night sky is recreated with more than 4,000 twinkling stars. Planetarium shows are presented daily, and a weekly program provides the latest information about current and upcoming celestial events.
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The museum's Discovery House provides an interactive adventure for children of all ages. Three floors of hands-on exhibitions explore art, science, and the humanities.
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The Georgia Museum of Art occupies a contemporary building in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex on the east campus of the University of Georgia. There, 52,000 square feet house more than 8,000 objects in the museum's permanent collection.
Photograph by Katie Korth
The museum's two galleries, South and Skylight, are known for their intimacy and the carefully chosen music that accompanies each exhibition. With its hardwood floors, white columns, and earth-red walls, the building is often called a jewel itself.
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Oglethorpe University's art museum is the only one on such a campus in the Southeast that regularly shows nationally and internationally recognized exhibitions.
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The oldest public art museum in the South, Telfair Museums in Savannah has an extensive permanent collection of works dating from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries.
Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Geoff L. Johnson.
Telfair Museums' permanent collection, with nearly 7,000 objects, features full-scale plaster replicas of ancient Greek and Roman statues.
Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Geoff L. Johnson.
