On the 100th anniversary of the creation of Girl Scouts, Telfair Museums takes a look at Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Low’s interest in art, both as an artist and as an art organizer. In addition to creating her own art, Low took a leading role in the Savannah art scene in the early 20th [...]
Despite coming of age at a time when modernism and abstraction had achieved a firm hold on the prevailing modes of art instruction throughout the country, West Fraser has remained a traditionalist, earning a place among the region’s leading practitioners of traditional realism. Fraser was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1955 and has spent most [...]
The ever-popular collection of drawings, watercolors, and paintings by the Lebanese-born, visionary artist and writer Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) will be on view again at the Telfair Academy beginning on May 26. Although best known for authoring The Prophet, a collection of short, philosophical essays that became one of the top-selling books of the twentieth century, Kahlil [...]
The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design tells an American story of one of the most common furnishing items found in the home, the workplace, and any sort of public setting, both interior and exterior. Using 40 chairs which span more than two centuries of design and manufacture, The Art of Seating captures [...]
Robert Claiborne Morris began to re-examine his understanding of race in America after reading an early proof of Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, “Slavery by Another Name.” The revelation that slavery continued until World War II changed the way he saw his native South. Morris began an odyssey in search of the images, [...]
In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South. These are intimate portraits of workers left behind when jobs are outsourced or replaced by new technology, people who are more related to the “old economy” than the new. They are cotton pickers [...]
For nearly 40 years, artist Preston Russell has created paintings inspired by the people, architecture, and history of Savannah and the Low Country. Often populated with ghost-like figures from the past, Russell’s canvases possess an enigmatic quality and a surprising element of tension, further heightened by the artist’s unique compositional choices. Viewing Russell’s work, it [...]
Jan Reich (1942-2009) was one of the Czech Republic’s most celebrated 20th-century photographers. Using an older large-format camera, Reich spent decades photographing the crumbling buildings of Prague, evocative still lifes, and melancholy Bohemian landscapes. Reich graduated from the renowned Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague during the school’s [...]
Harmonic Discord: Cityscapes by John Dowell Other pieces on view September 23 – December 30, 2011 / Beach Institute Opening Reception: Sunday, September 25, 3 p.m. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris Street, Savannah John Dowell has spent much of the past decade enthralled by the architecture, lights, and reflections that compose America’s urban landscapes. Using [...]
Cultural heritage and individual expression are integral to the lifestyle and livelihood of the people of the South. Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art draws on this wellspring of tradition and originality through contemporary and traditional craft expressions created by Southern artists. Whether in the studio or at the kitchen table, each [...]
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