In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South with sensitivity and reverence. From the textile mill worker and tobacco farmer to the sponge diver and elevator operator, Whyte has sought out some of the last remnants of rural and industrial workforces that [...]
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 [...]
Since their development and beginnings as cutting-edge technology, videogames have provided fertile ground as both a medium and inspiration for artists, particularly within the last decade. Contemporary artists have continued to modify existing games or game technology, design new games, create videos within game worlds, and employ the visual vocabulary of videogames in other media.
Game [...]
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 century [...]
Stranger in Paradise explores the visions and themes of Reverend Howard Finster. A self-proclaimed “Man of Visions,” Finster was one of America’s most widely known and prolific self-taught artists, producing over 46,000 pieces of art before his death in 2001. Finster saw himself as a sacred artist, tirelessly recording his visionary prophesies and providing glimpses [...]
Dan Winters is a nationally-known photographer who has spent more than two decades creating memorable images for publications such as the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone, and many others. Best known for his iconic celebrity portraits, Winters has photographed public figures ranging from the Dalai Lama to President Barack Obama, Hollywood [...]
This exhibition of Italian masterworks from the Renaissance through the Baroque period is drawn from the permanent collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, one of the world’s greatest art museums. The Uffizi Gallery dates to 1560 and began its storied history as the repository of the priceless collection of Florence’s famous Medici family. Offering [...]
For the 50th anniversary of the United States Studio Glass Movement, Telfair Museums will host its first exhibition on the subject of contemporary glass. Blown, Assembled and Cast: A Celebration of Contemporary Glass will feature approximately thirty works from the museum’s collection of studio glass. Noteworthy artists represented in the show include Rick Beck, JoseChardiet, [...]
Spanish Sojourns will be the first exhibition to explore the Spanish paintings of Robert Henri. Widely celebrated as both an artist and a teacher, Henri also played a pivotal role in the history of American art as one of the key organizers of the progressive 1908 exhibition of the Eight, and throughout his career championed [...]
Paul Goadby Stone was born in North Carolina in 1928 and worked in Savannah from 1957 until his tragic and untimely death in 1976, at the age of just 48. Noted for his mastery of the unforgiving medium of tempera, Stone was also adept with oil, watercolor, and pencil. The Telfair is currently planning a [...]