Past Exhibitions

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Fleeting Pleasures: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art

August 31, 2011 — October 30, 2011


27 prints from the museum’s permanent collection, including the 19th-century iconic image “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”

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Hot Metal and Cool Paper: The Black Art of Making Books

August 27, 2011 — November 6, 2011


Works by private presses, including books printed by LaNana Creek Press, the Press of the Nightowl and Tinhorn Press

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American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print

August 27, 2011 — November 6, 2011


This exhibition illustrated the fascinating fusion of art with popular culture and music history

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Introduction to the Centers

August 15, 2011 — March 4, 2012


A brief introduction to the museum’s four Study Centers in the Humanities

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Lamar Dodd: Paintings and Drawings

July 2, 2011 — August 28, 2011


Featuring 100 images, this special exhibition during the museum’s reopening year celebrated Dodd’s career and juxtaposed his drawings with many of his related watercolors and paintings

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American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection

May 14, 2011 — August 7, 2011


American watercolors from the mid-19th century to the 1970s from the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art

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The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art

May 14, 2011 — August 7, 2011


53 works on paper produced in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries by such renowned artists as Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Parmigianino

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All Creatures Great and Small

April 20, 2011 — October 16, 2012


Paintings, sculptures and mixed-media creations by folk masters and outstanding but relatively unheralded contemporary artists as Jim Lewis and Ted Gordon were on display in the Atlanta airport’s T gates for more than a year

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Dalí Illustrates Dante’s “Divine Comedy”

April 10, 2011 — June 19, 2011


Organized by the Las Cruces Museum of Art in New Mexico, this exhibition included all 100 prints from Salvador Dalí’s “Divine Comedy” Suite and was part of a 10-city national tour developed and managed by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services

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Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art

January 30, 2011 — March 27, 2011


Seventy-two works by 67 black artists who typically have not been recognized in the traditional narratives of African American art