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June 2022

The View From Here: Three Master Painters Consider the Landscape: Recent Work by John Cleaveland, Julyan Davis, and Philip Juras

June 11, 2022 - September 11, 2022
Morris Museum of Art, 1 Tenth Street
Augusta, GA 30901 United States
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Highlighting the work of three consummately skilled contemporary artists, this exhibition addresses the distinctly different ways that each of them views the subject of landscape. They have this in common with landscape painters of the past: underlying their work are themes related as much to self-discovery and self-exploration as they are to the examination of topography. John L. Cleaveland, Jr.,…

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July 2022

Savannah’s Women Artists, 1915–1945

July 30, 2022 - December 11, 2022
Morris Museum of Art, 1 Tenth Street
Augusta, GA 30901 United States
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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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August 2022

The Spirit of Collage Paintings: Works by Arless Day

August 13, 2022 - November 6, 2022
Morris Museum of Art, 1 Tenth Street
Augusta, GA 30901 United States
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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…

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September 2022

The Art of William Golding: Hard Knocks, Hardships, and Lots of Experience

September 24, 2022 - January 22, 2023
Morris Museum of Art, 1 Tenth Street
Augusta, GA 30901 United States
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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…

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November 2022

Acquired and Restored

November 12, 2022 - March 12, 2023
Morris Museum of Art, 1 Tenth Street
Augusta, GA 30901 United States
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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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