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LUSTER: Realism and Hyperrealism in Contemporary Automobile and Motorcycle Painting
Morris Museum of Art 1 Tenth Street, Augusta
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Folk Art in the South: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Folk art—often characterized as outsider, visionary, or self-taught—varies widely in medium and subject matter. The range of descriptive terms applied to it does little to describe the imaginative ways in which folk artists express deeply personal ideas in visual language. They employ readily accessible materials, including found objects, to produce their work, putting mundane materials to fresh and ingenious uses.…
The Eugene Fleischer Collection of Studio Art Glass
The history of the studio art glass movement in America is relatively brief. Its origins can be pinpointed precisely to two workshops conducted by ceramist Harvey Littleton, who was interested in the potential of glass as an artistic medium, and chemist and engineer Dominick Labino held at the Toldeo Museum of Art in 1962. Littleton had envisioned a more or…
LUSTER: Realism and Hyperrealism in Contemporary Automobile and Motorcycle Painting
This bold exhibition includes more than fifty-five paintings by fourteen leading photorealist artists—A. D. Cook, Randy Ford, Allan Gorman, Marc G. Jones, Cheryl Kelley, Richard Lewis, Lory Lockwood, Bob Petillo, Kris Preslan, Joseph Santos, Ken Scaglia, John E. Schaeffer, Guenevere Schwien, and Harold Zabady—all of whom specialize in automobile and motorcycle imagery. Through their work, they share their enthusiasm for…
The Museum is Closed Until Further Notice
Dear Friends, As you already know, the Morris Museum of Art has been closed to the public since last week. We had hoped to reopen on April 6, but find now that we simply can’t. I regret to say that the museum will now remain closed until further notice. Toward the end of the month, we will again evaluate the…
Modernism in the South
Since 1900 much of American painting and sculpture has been represented by a series of revolts against tradition, especially academic tradition. At the dawn of the twentieth century, realism became the new direction for American artists. Later those realists gave way to modernists, many of them arriving from Europe. The impact of the 1913 Armory Show, where Americans saw Marcel…
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Create with Me: Automobiles and Color Wheels!
Create with Me: Automobiles and Color Wheels!
Explore the exhibition LUSTER: Realism and Hyperrealism in Contemporary Automobile and Motorcycle Painting. Afterwards, paint with toy cars. Members, free; nonmembers, $4. Reservations recommended.
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Films on Friday: The Great Moment (1944)
Films on Friday: The Great Moment (1944)
Directed by Preston Sturges, this biographical film is based on the book Triumph over Pain, by René Fülöp-Miller, and tells the story of Dr. William Thomas Green Morton, a nineteenth-century Boston dentist who discovered the use of ether for general anesthesia. Filmed in 1942 but not released until two years later, it marked the end of a remarkable string of critical…
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Museum Day
Museum Day
Join us for Museum Day, an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine in which participating museums across the country open their doors to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. Download your free ticket online at www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday.