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The Georgia Museum of Art has established a new research center devoted to the study and presentation of the decorative arts. Under the direction of curator Ashley Brown, the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts will focus on decorative works from Georgia and the South and will place regional arts into the context of American art history and its European influences.
The center will encourage scholarship, publish research, develop programming, conduct conferences and workshops, present exhibitions, sponsor lectures and other educational events in Athens, throughout Georgia and the Southeast, and build a collection of decorative arts for the Georgia Museum of Art.
Henry D. Green has been called “an invaluable champion of Southern decorative arts” and is known as a pioneer in the movement to recognize Georgia’s rich legacy in the decorative arts. In one of his most significant efforts, Green organized the landmark exhibition Furniture of the Georgia Piedmont Before 1830 for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in 1976, and wrote the book of the same title which served as the catalogue for the exhibition. The book is a reference point for the study of early Southern furniture and represents decades of research as well as Green’s gifted eye and intuition.
Green also has led efforts to restore numerous historic structures and sites in Georgia, including the Thornton House at Stone Mountain and the old Governor’s Mansion in Milledgeville. Green’s donation of books will form the core of the library for the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts.
The Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts is a paramount addition to the Georgia Museum of Art in its continuing effort to preserve, present and promote art for and to the citizens of Georgia, the Southeast and the United States.
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