I Have Marks to Make enters its fifteenth year at the Telfair Museum of Art, providing an important community forum on artists with disabilities and art used in a therapeutic context. Featuring works by nearly one hundred artists of all ages, the exhibition will again take place in the Morrison education gallery and adjacent spaces [...]
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 [...]
Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran consists of fifty-eight works of photography and video by renowned Iranian artists. The first survey of contemporary Iranian photography to tour the United States, the exhibition provides a rare and revealing view of life and experience in Iran. Among Iran’s most celebrated photographers, the twenty artists represented in the [...]
This captivating exhibition features a diverse selection of work by French printmaker Erik Desmazières including architectural views, building interiors, grotesque figures, and still lifes. Although major one-person shows of Desmazières’ prints have recently been mounted by museums in France, Switzerland, Italy, and the Netherlands, Constructs and Inventions marks the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in [...]
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 [...]
Walter MacEwen (1858-1943) was one of the most highly decorated American artists of the late nineteenth century. Cosmopolitan and versatile, he produced works in varying genres and styles, but was best known for his charming depictions of rural Dutch life. A native of Chicago, MacEwen enrolled at the Munich Academy in 1877, commencing a residence [...]