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Morris Museum of Art
Augusta, GA |
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One 10th Street, Ste. 320 |
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The Morris Museum of Art is located on the Riverwalk, overlooking the Savannah River, at 1 Tenth Street in downtown Augusta, Georgia. The museum is open to the public from Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., and on Sunday from noon until 5:00 p.m. (The Morris is closed on Mondays and all major holidays.) Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for seniors, and students and members of the military with ID; it is free for museum members and children under the age of 6. Audio guides, providing interpretive information about the museum’s permanent collection, are free with admission. For more information on the Morris Museum of Art, please call 706-724-7501 or visit our web site at www.themorris.org.
The Morris Museum of Art, the first museum in the country devoted to the art and artists of the South, is one of the region’s premier cultural institutions. Noted for its multifaceted permanent collection and a rich program of continuously changing special exhibitions, the Morris Museum is dedicated to the ongoing interpretation of Southern art in all its forms and the preservation of the region’s rich cultural legacy. It is dedicated to sustaining artistic inquiry, providing a rich visitor experience, and exercising civic responsibility, while advancing public understanding of the South. The museum holds nearly 5,000 works of art, including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture, dating from the late-eighteenth century to the present. These works are displayed in galleries dedicated to antebellum portraiture, the Civil War, genre painting, still life, landscape, Southern impressionism, contemporary painting, and works on paper. In addition to its permanent collection galleries, the museum presents eight to ten special exhibitions every year and a rich variety of public programs, including lectures, readings, and concerts for a general audience, as well as more specialized programs for the museum’s affiliate membership groups-Friends of African American Art, Friends of the Library, Young at Art, and the Morris 100 collectors group-children, families, and school groups. |
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Exhibitions:
Realist Paintings by Bryan LeBoeuf July 26-September 28 This, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, introduces the work of Louisiana native Bryan LeBoeuf through ten of his large-scale paintings. Highlighted by the artist’s mastery of beautifully painted surfaces, careful composition, and baroque lighting effects, his paintings are quite contemporary in their psychological and social implications, with many of them suggesting open-ended relationships between the figures depicted, as they interact with the moody environments he creates.
Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art August 23-October 19 Landscape of Slavery includes approximately 90 works of art that interpret plantation imagery from the eighteenth century to the present in the light of social history. The exhibition examines the depiction of plantation life, and related slave imagery, as a special part of the American landscape tradition. A genre tied to the American South, the plantation view has, in recent years, attracted the attention of social and cultural historians, as a rich source for exploring themes of wealth, power, race, memory, and nostalgia.
The Unveiling of Robert Rauschenberg’s Augusta Allegory (Anagrams) The Morris Museum owns thirty-nine works by Rauschenberg, including ilfochrome prints, photo etchings, and lithographs. Among them is an outsized work, measuring five by twelve feet, Augusta Allegory (Anagrams), that was commissioned by the Morris Museum in 1997. Augusta Allegory (Anagrams) contains several readily recognizable elements of the Augusta streetscape, including numerous church steeples, Springfield Baptist Church, Sacred Heart Cultural Center, a nineteenth-century textile mill, the Confederate Monument, a railroad bridge, an antebellum home, Augusta bricks, the Haunted Pillar, and the feet of the bronze sculpture of Arnold Palmer. A detail of the work-in-progress appeared in the September 1996 issue of Vogue magazine in an article on the artist and his career.
It’s a Dog’s Life: Photographs by William Wegman from the Polaroid Collection October 11, 2008-January 4, 2009 It's a Dog's Life: Photographs by William Wegman from the Polaroid Collection features a sampling of William Wegman's delightful, large-format color prints, featuring his favorite subjects, his Weimaraner dogs, Man Ray and Fay Wray, often in improbably anthropomorphic poses-on roller skates (Rolleramer, 1987), in long dresses and aprons (Serving Trout, 1991), and on an exercise bicycle (Stud 2000). Linda Benedict-Jones, the executive director of Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, explains Wegman's appeal: "William Wegman's images are engaging because they make us react. If we're dog lovers, we think about the funny things we do with our own pets. Then again, if we're not especially connected to the world of domestic animals, we marvel at the way Wegman choreographs these four-legged friends of his. There is good reason why his work is so popular. Animals help us step outside of our own daily lives, and Wegman's Weimaraners seem to do that for all ages.”
J.C. Leyendecker: America’s “Other” Illustrator November 1, 2008-January 11, 2009 Organized by the The Haggin Museum in Stockton, California, J.C. Leyendecker: America’s “Other” Illustrator includes approximately fifty paintings, sketches, original magazine covers, and advertisements by Joseph Christian Leyendecker, America’s most popular and successful commercial artist during the first four decades of the twentieth century. Admired and emulated by his better-known successor, Norman Rockwell, Leyendecker is still renowned for his cover illustrations for such widely read and influential periodicals as Collier’s and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as his creation of certain icons of American advertising, including his “Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Children” and “The Arrow Shirt Man.”
Nashville Portraits: Photographs by Jim Mcguire March 6–April 26, 2009 Nashville Portraits: Photographs by Jim Mcguire is a highly acclaimed touring exhibition of sixty of McGuire’s most strikingly beautiful photographs of some of the leading figures in country music from 1972 to the present. Dolly Parton, John Hartford, Johnny Cash (with Billy Graham!), Emmy Lou Harris, and Ricky Skaggs are among the featured singers and songwriters who have made America’s music over the past thirty-five years whose images McGuire captured, both for publication and for use on the covers of LPs and, later, CDs. Organized by the Morris Museum of Art, the exhibition, now in the middle of its nationwide tour, is accompanied by a major publication, Nashville Portraits: Legends of Country Music, which features an essay by Dr. William Ferris, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as brief biographies and a preface by Morris Museum director Kevin Grogan. Events Friday, August 1, Noon. Art at Lunch: Artist Bryan LeBoeuf discusses his exhibition Realist Paintings by Bryan LeBoeuf. Catering by French Market Grille. $10 for museum members; $13 for nonmembers. Registration required by July 30 by calling 706-724-7501.
Sunday, August 3, 2:00 p.m. Artrageous! Sunday: Sunday: Shadow Box Collage. Create a mixed media shadow box collage inspired by the work of Jeffrey Kronsnoble. Free.
Thursday, August 14, or Friday, August 15, 10:00–11:00 a.m. or 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Toddler Time: The Ugly Duckling. After reading the book The Ugly Duckling, create a web-footed fan inspired by a Robin Hill painting. Children 5 and younger. Museum members and parents free; nonmembers $4 per participant. Register by calling 706-828-3867.
Folk Art Symposium Friday, August 15 Folk Art Museum trip Saturday, August 16 Join the Morris Museum for a fun-filled folk art weekend. On Friday, August 15, Harry Delorme, senior curator of education at the Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, Georgia, will discuss the history of folk art, and . Lynne Browne, senior correspondent for the Folk Art Messenger, will give insider tips on collecting folk art. The next day, travel by bus to the Slotin Folk Fest in Norcross, Georgia, for an exciting opportunity to meet some of the artists you learned about the previous day, and to view and buy folk art from the dealers and galleries gathered there. $90 for members; $70 for docents or affiliate group members; $110 for nonmembers. Cost includes the symposium, bus trip, Folk Fest entrance fees, dinner on Saturday, and snacks. Reserve your space by calling 706-828-3865 by July 28.
Sunday, August 17, 2:00 p.m. Music at the Morris. Join us for the last summer music concert— the great country and rockabilly group The Unmentionables. Free.
Saturday, August 23, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Stupendous! Family Saturday: Circus Berzerkus. Witness Roger, the Dare-Devil Cat, dancing unicorns, and other unique characters during a highly energetic, carnival-style marionette show. Create your own puppet in the activity room and try your hand at making balloon animals. Free.
Thursday, August 28, 6:00–8:00 p.m. Public Opening Reception: Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art. Angela D. Mack, Director of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, and principal organizer of the exhibition, discusses how it was conceived and assembled. Free.
SAVE THE DATE High Art and Low Country: An Evening with Jonathan Green Friday, September 5, 2008, 6:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m. The Morris Museum’s Friends of African American Art invite you to join them in marking the opening of Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art. Mingle with nationally renowned Gullah artist Jonathan Green and enjoy live music while feasting on a Low Country boil overlooking the beautiful Savannah River. Lecture, 6:30 p.m.; reception, 7:00 p.m. Dress; Low Country Casual. Museum members, $35; non-members, $50. RSVP to 706-724-7501 by August 22. |
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