Telfair Museums

Encompassing over seventy works drawn from public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914 examines the work of forty-three American painters drawn to Holland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These artists, responding to the negative aspects of rapid urbanization, established colonies in six [...]

Co-organized by the Japan Foundation and the Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta, Counter Photography introduces an exciting selection of photographs by eleven contemporary Japanese artists. Reacting to a society defined by constantly shifting values, demographics, and technologies, these artists employ varied approaches to photographic expression and representation. Some delve beyond external appearance to expose [...]

Telfair will present a dynamic new installation by artist Shih Chieh Huang in the Lewis Gallery of the Jepson Center in conjunction with the museum’s 2010 Pulse: Art and Technology Festival. Shih Chieh Huang (b. Taiwan, 1975) creates kinetic, glowing, “breathing,” environments of low tech electronic creatures inspired by the evolutionary adaptations of life forms [...]

Reflecting the American predilection for card-playing and gaming during the Federal era, the card table was one of the most common articles of furniture imported to Savannah in the years following the American Revolution. In this small, specialized exhibition, the Telfair Museum of Art draws primarily from its permanent collection to survey card tables and [...]