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July 2022
Savannah’s Women Artists, 1915–1945
Savannah, Georgia, was the site of the development of an unusually vibrant artistic community beginning around 1920. Much of the activity there was related to the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, but it was also influenced by such organizations as the Savannah Art Association, the Southern States Art League, and the Association of Georgia Artists. Working in concert with the Telfair, they…
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The Spirit of Collage Paintings: Works by Arless Day
Arless Day grew up in a family of artists in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was born in 1951. His father was a woodcarver and his brother a teaching artist in colleges and universities for more than thirty years. Both were influential. He developed a passion for making art at an early age and has pursued it for almost all…
Find out more »September 2022
The Art of William Golding: Hard Knocks, Hardships, and Lots of Experience
Organized by Harry DeLorme, the senior curator of Savannah’s Telfair Museums, the exhibition is the first large-scale museum survey ever undertaken of the work of William O. Golding (1874–1943), an African American seaman and late-life artist who recorded a half-century of maritime experience in vibrant, imaginative drawings. After a lifetime spent traveling the world as a merchant seaman, Golding, his…
Find out more »November 2022
Aquired and Restored
This exhibition highlights key acquisitions and important conservation projects of the past year. More than two hundred works of art entered the collection in 2021, and a dozen more were conserved. The acquisitions include twenty-nine paintings by pioneering abstractionist Berry Fleming, thanks to Truist; numerous works by Savannah’s Christopher A. D. Murphy, a gift from his descendants; and the first…
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