Georgia Museum of Art | Exhibitions
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS
LOAN MORATORIUM
Beginning in early 2009, the Georgia Museum of Art will embark on its Phase II expansion. The addition and renovation designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects, New York, will result in approximately 27,000 square feet of new construction: much - needed gallery space for the Museum's permanent collection, new and larger storage facilities, and administrative and library space to house the Pierre Daura Center, the Jacob Burns Foundation Archives, and the Henry D. Green Center for Decorative Arts.
Consequently, we are imposing a moratorium effective immediately on all new outgoing loan requests for periods occurring from November 2008 to fall of 2010. Already approved requests for loans will be honored and new requests for periods occurring before November 2008 or after the fall of 2010 will be given normal consideration.
We have been pleased and proud to participate in exhibitions all over the country and look forward, after our expansion is complete, to share works once again from our collection with museum audiences across the nation and internationally.
The traveling exhibition service of the Georgia Museum of Art is supported in part by the Office of the Vice President of Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia.
Requirements and Guidelines
In addition to the rental fee, the borrower is responsible for round-trip transportation costs and must meet required standards for climate control, security, and light levels (5-10 foot candles for works on paper, incandescent light only). Bookings must be made at least six months in advance (five months in advance for institutions in Georgia). Object label copy and introductory text material, if applicable, are provided on computer disk.
For further information, please contact the exhibition loan coordinator at 706.542.4662.
When Alfred H. Holbrook opened the Georgia Museum of Art in 1948, he chose Athens as the site both because of the resources offered by the University of Georgia and because the region was, at that time, underserved by cultural institutions available in larger cities. Once the Georgia Museum of Art was established in Athens, Mr. Holbrook expanded the museum's audience by bringing art to other rural areas, often by packing his car full of paintings and driving there himself. Over the years, we have continued in this mission of making the Georgia Museum of Art's collections available to people throughout the state and region. Other curators have assembled a diverse range of exhibitions, from Japanese woodblock prints to contemporary views of Georgia's coastline, from French floral studies to exquisitely crafted animalier bronzes that will be of great appeal in a wide variety of venues and that offer a range of programming possibilities for small, mid-sized, and even larger institutions.
EXHIBITIONS AVAILABLE
Animals in Bronze: The Michael and Mary Erlanger Collection of Animalier Bronzes from the Georgia Museum of Art
Animalier bronzes, which depict both wild and domesticated animals, gained a wide audience in nineteenth and early twentieth-century France, England, and the United States. Animals in Bronze represents the full range of styles and many of the finest artists of this genre. Notable among the works in this exhibition are several by Antoine-Louis Barye and Rembrandt Bugatti's Brahma Bull. Barye was one of the earliest and most famous artists of the animalier school. His works often depict animals in violent conflict and were inspired by his mentor, the noted Romantic painter Antoine-Jean Gros. Bugatti's works, with their rejection of "unnecessary" detail, appear to have been hastily executed, heightening their impressionistic feel. Also in this collection are sculptures by Romantic painter Rose Bonheur and her brother Isidore-Jules Bonheur, as well as works by American artists Herbert Haseltine and Charles Marion Russell. This collection is a gift from Michael and Mary Erlanger to the Georgia Museum of Art. This exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by curator Eleanora Luciano.
46 sculptures, 10 copies of catalogue
Rental fee: $2,500 ($1,000 in-state)
The Disasters of War by Goya: Selections from the Georgia Museum of Art
Francisco de Goya's The Disasters of War documents the brutality of the Peninsular War (1808-1814) between Spanish guerrilla forces and occupying French troops in Spain and Portugal. Goya (Spanish, 1794-1828) recorded the death and destruction he observed on the battlefields in numerous drawings and small paintings. From those sketches, he created the plates that comprise The Disasters of War. Each print is a distinct comment on his observations; titles such as and they are like wild beasts, He deserved it, and Why? describe the violence of the conflict. These etchings are among the many works that Goya created as political statements in support of peace. He completed the series around 1810-1814, but the prints were not published until 1863, over thirty years after his death. This exhibition is comprised of forty selected works from the Georgia Museum of Art's collection of eighty prints from this series, published in 1906. The works in this exhibition are a gift to the Georgia Museum of Art from Mr. and Mrs. James B. Anderson.
40 prints
Rental fee: $2000 (1000 in-state)
Hiroshige and the Tokaido Road: Selected Views from the Georgia Museum of Art
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858) was among the last great ukiyo-e masters of the color wood-block print. In 1832, he traveled along the historic Tokaido, or "Eastern Sea Road," that connected Kyoto, the ancient imperial capital, with Edo (now called Tokyo), the seat of Tokugawa Shogun, in the early nineteenth century. Fifty-three towns dotted the road, providing lodging, refreshments, and souvenirs for travelers. Hiroshige visited these overnight stations and recorded numerous views of the surrounding landscape, towns and people. These spontaneous impressions resulted in a series of fifty-five published in 1833-4 under the title Famous Places on the Fifty-Three Stations, also known as the Vertical Tokaido. This popular print series is characterized by minimal detail, simplified composition, flattened shapes, and distant views, qualities that appealed to artists in Europe and North America, such as Manet, van Gogh, Monet, Degas, Whistler, and Cassat. This exhibition is composed of twenty selected views from the Georgia Museum of Art's complete collection of this series.
20 prints
Rental fee: $1,500 ($750 in-state)
Lamar Dodd, Artist of Georgia: Selections from the Georgia Museum of Art
Lamar Dodd (American, 1909-1996) is an artist important to Georgia not only for his nationally recognized artistic talent, but also for his role as an educator and founder of the University of Georgia's School of Art. From his earliest works as a child in LaGrange, Georgia through his mature career in New York, Alabama, and at the University of Georgia, Dodd experienced and absorbed every art-historical movement of the twentieth century. This exhibition of twenty of his works includes important paintings from his American Scene period of the 1930s and 1940s, from his solitary sojourns of Monhegan island, from his international travels, and from his tenure as an official artist for NASA. Featured are works that show his range from the realism of his earlier years to the quasi-abstraction of his later career, when he developed a new visual vocabulary to express his perceptions of the cosmos. Other exhibitions of Lamar Dodd's works are available through consultation with the Georgia Museum of Art's exhibition loan coordinator.
20 paintings
Rental fee: $3,000 ($2,000 in-state)
Mannahatta: Images of New York City from the Georgia Museum of Art
In 1879, Walt Whitman wrote of New York City, "Mannahatta!...how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista, and action!" and made this great city a central theme of his book of poems, Leaves of Grass. At the beginning of the twentieth century, artists such as John Sloan and Reginald Marsh, members of the so-called Ashcan School, were avid readers of Whitman and produced numerous visual interpretations of the city in which they lived. Later artists, including Edward Hopper, Isabel Bishop, Lamar Dodd, and John Taylor Arms, found similar fascination in the life and architecture of Manhattan. This exhibition of works on paper from the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art demonstrates how these and other artists responded to and represented the people, entertainment, labor, transportation, and architecture of this dynamic American city.
33 works on paper
Rental fee: $3,000 ($2,000 in-state)
Prints by Women: Selected Works from the Georgia Museum of Art
Although often overshadowed by their male counterparts, women artists have played and continue to play integral roles in the development of art in America and Europe. This exhibition reflects the achievements of women artists and their changing, paralleling the increasing social freedom experienced by women.
These works present a sampling of the various artistic movements and techniques in the field of printmaking in nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Images range from domestic scenes by Mary Cassat and Berthe Morisot to Joni Mabe's late twentieth-century lithograph, The Official Elvis Prayer Rug.
52 prints
Rental fee: $3,000 ($2,000 in-state)
Techniques and Styles: A Sampling of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art
Developing an understanding of artistic techniques and styles is crucial to art appreciation and connoisseurship. The way in which a work of art is created along with the context in which it is created are as important as what is depicted. This educational exhibition provides an opportunity for audiences to study a variety of techniques and media used in creating two-dimensional works of art and to learn about significant movements in Western art. Examples of oil, watercolor, and gouache painting are included, in addition to drawing media such as ink and graphite, and the printmaking methods of woodcut, etching, lithography, and screenprinting. Works date from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries and highlight artistic movements including Impressionism, Cubism, German Expressionism, Surrealism, and Photo Realism.
20 works
Rental fee: $2,000 ($1,000 in-state)
Travels Abroad: Paintings by Anna Richards Brewster from the Georgia Museum of Art
This selection of oil paintings by Anna Richards Brewster (American, 1870-1952) highlights the artists' extensive travels and includes village and country scenes in England, France, Italy, Norway, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. The daughter of William Richards, an American landscape painter often associated with the Hudson River School, Brewster was fascinated with natural light, which she depicted with her use of warm, bright color and impressionistic brushwork. This pioneering woman artist received many awards and commissions throughout her career, including an award from the National Academy of Design in 1890. Following her death in 1952, her husband, William Tenney Brewster donated most of his wife's paintings to a variety of museums, including a large number of works to the Georgia Museum of Art.
Visions of Nature: English Romantic Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art
Romanticism in art was a complex movement that occurred in Europe and America from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. In England, where the movement blossomed, the romantic artist's in either an objective manner, as in the oils and watercolors of John Constable, or in a visionary or exotic fashion, as in the works of William Blake and J.M.W. Turner. These responses contrasted with the conventions of the previous century in England where, generally, views of nature were considered secondary to the more highly valued history paintings and fashionable society portraits.
Landscapes and visionary imagery dominated English art of this period. Created between 1808 and 1831, the prints in this exhibition present favorite romantic subjects-Norman and Gothic ruins, sublime landscapes, and cataclysmic scenes from the Bible and Milton's Paradise Lost.
17 prints
Rental fee: $1,500 ($750 in-state)