Past Exhibitions

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To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America

February 18, 2012 — April 16, 2012


The first major exhibition of Ault’s work in more than 20 years, with 46 paintings and drawings by the artist and his contemporaries

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Will Henry Stevens

January 21, 2012 — March 25, 2012


Abstracted landscapes and more by the American painter

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Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas

January 14, 2012 — April 15, 2012


Furniture and ephemera by or related to the career of Athenian Henry Eugene Thomas

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Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism

December 17, 2011 — February 27, 2012


A retrospective exhibition that presented Nebraska native Dale Nichols’ nostalgic images of rural America

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Images of the Midwest from the Schoen Collection and the Georgia Museum of Art

December 17, 2011 — February 27, 2012


American Scene images of the Midwest

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Lycett China

December 3, 2011 — March 4, 2012


Paint-decorated china from the Lycett studio of porcelain decoration in Atlanta

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Bill Viola: Collected Work, 1977–80

December 3, 2011 — February 19, 2012


Pioneering video artist Bill Viola helped make the medium vital to contemporary art in the 1970s and 1980s and remains among its most important practitioners

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Quiet Spirit, Skillful Hand: The Graphic Work of Clare Leighton

November 20, 2011 — February 3, 2012


A full survey of Leighton’s career, from her earliest prints in the 1920s that depict the labors of the English working classes to a selection of her rarely seen watercolors

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Buon Natale: Holiday Prints by Elizabeth Bailey

November 12, 2011 — January 8, 2012


Holiday woodcuts by the Georgia native and professor at Wesleyan College in Macon

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Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond

September 10, 2011 — December 4, 2011


This monographic exhibition featured almost 50 examples of the artist’s work and examined his career and impact as an artist and educator.