Including pieces by some of the most pivotal artists of the past fifty years, The Kirk Varnedoe Collection celebrates the life and legacy of Kirk Varnedoe through the presentation of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs created by the contemporary artists he most admired. A native of Savannah, Varnedoe was a distinguished scholar and chief curator [...]
Organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh and the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah
This midcareer survey will consist of approximately 30 works, including photographs, drawings, videos, and mixed-media installations by Anthony Goicolea. Over the past decade, Goicolea has created a significant and highly successful body of work, and he has proven his skill [...]
In celebration of Savannah’s diverse and fascinating characters, the City of Savannah has undertaken an ongoing documentation effort that focuses on the city’s unique neighborhoods, and aims to meld the stories of past and current residents into publications, exhibitions and public programs. Ebb and Flow: Life & Community in Eastern Savannah is the most recent [...]
Curtis Bartone’s drawings and etchings focus on the uneasy relationship between human beings and the natural world. In particular, Bartone’s work addresses the concept of wilderness, which is typically presented as a distorted fiction rather than a mysterious, pristine reality. The artist fuses Italian Renaissance painting, seventeenth-century Dutch still life, and nineteenth-century scientific illustration with [...]
An engaged and widely respected figure in Savannah’s art community, as well as an outspoken environmental advocate, Betsy Cain has drawn limitless inspiration from the lush Low Country landscape since settling in Savannah in the early 1980s. From her beginnings as a figurative painter, she adopted a personal form of expressive abstraction, retaining an undercurrent [...]
Beyond Utility: Pottery Created by Enslaved Hands showcases remarkable pots made by enslaved people in the mid-19th century. Although crafted for utilitarian purposes, these jars, jugs and other vessels exemplify the work of experienced and talented artisans. Using a variety of forms and decoration, the featured objects demonstrate how largely unknown potters carefully shaped, molded, [...]
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s features works by 24 artists, including several pioneers and a special section devoted to artists who have lived in San Antonio.
When curator David S. Rubin first saw Frank Stella’s 1968 painting Double Scramble, he thought to himself, “That’s the most psychedelic Stella I’ve ever seen!” And then [...]
Encompassing over sixty landscape paintings, this exhibition offers a glimpse of the pre-settlement southern wilderness as late 18th-century naturalist William Bartram would have experienced it during his famed travels through the region. Philip Juras’s work combines direct observation with historical, scientific, and natural history research to depict, and in some cases re-imagine, landscapes as they [...]
George Bellows’ Snow-Capped River of 1911, which depicts a view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from Manhattan’s Riverside Park, is one of the Telfair’s most important and beloved paintings. The work was acquired for the Telfair directly from Bellows by artist Gari Melchers, who served as the museum’s fine arts advisor from 1906-1916.
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Although the natural landscape of the southeastern United States has changed vastly as a result of European settlement, the region’s wildlife has provided consistent inspiration to naturalists and artists over the centuries.
Decades before John James Audubon would commence work on his famed volume Birds of America, British-born naturalist John Abbot (1751-c.1840) immigrated to eastern Georgia [...]