For the first time in eight years, the Telfair presents an exhibition from its growing collection of work by self-taught artists, largely from the southeastern United States. The show features many works acquired in recent years that have never been exhibited. Highlights include newly acquired sculptures by Tennessee folk sculptor Bessie Harvey and a rare, [...]
Dennis Martin’s photorealistic metalpoint drawings of the human figure are brilliantly crafted, inviting the viewer to look closely at these remarkably lifelike images. Martin, whose work was featured in the Telfair’s 2006 exhibition The Luster of Silver, utilized the tone and delicacy of metalpoint to create exacting, beautifully lit portrayals of his human subjects and [...]
This exhibition features key paintings and sculptures by some of the most celbrated artists who came to maturity in the 1950’s.
The William R. Kenan, Jr. Endowment Fund, the C.F. Foundation in Atlanta, and members of the Smithsonian Council for American Art have generously contributed to Modern Masters from the Smithonian American Art Museum.
Hans Hofmann; Fermented [...]
This exhibition explores the ways in which Athens-based landscape painter Philip Juras has been inspired by the work of 18th-century naturalist William Bartram. This series of approximately 50 paintings presents views, some imagined and some factual, of the Southeast in Bartram’s time, before the landscape was irrevocably altered by European settlement.