Past Exhibitions

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Opera in Print: Fin-de-siècle Posters from the Blum Collection

January 27, 2018 — April 22, 2018


Belle Epoque opera posters from a gift by Murray and Nancy Ann Blum

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Clinton Hill

January 6, 2018 — March 18, 2018


This exhibition presented the works of a multitalented artist who was a Renaissance man of the abstract

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Artful Instruments: Georgia Gunsmiths and Their Craft

December 2, 2017 — February 25, 2018


This exhibition gathered a range of early Georgia firearms and related accessories from both private collections and other museums

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Martha Odum: Art Intersects Ecology

October 7, 2017 — December 31, 2017


This exhibition celebrated the 50th anniversary of UGA’s Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology through selections of Martha Odum’s watercolor paintings and silver hollowware

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Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête

October 4, 2017 — January 7, 2018


Exhibition of more than 40 works by the acclaimed African American artist Mickalene Thomas as well as works by artists who inspired her

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Louise Blair Daura: A Virginian in Paris

September 30, 2017 — December 10, 2017


The first solo museum exhibition to focus on the Virginia-born painter's work, collecting all her known paintings, drawings and prints.

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Modern Masters from the Guiliano Ceseri Collection

August 19, 2017 — November 12, 2017


Drawings by 19th- and 20th-century artists, both American and European, from the collection of Giuliano Ceseri (on long-term loan to the museum)

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Avocation to Vocation: Prints by F. Townsend Morgan

June 17, 2017 — September 10, 2017


This exhibition was the first to focus entirely on Townsend's work since his death in 1965 and included about 30 prints of sailboats (one of his favorite subjects), architecture and natural beauty.

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Modern Living: Giò Ponti and the 20th-Century Aesthetics of Design

June 10, 2017 — September 17, 2017


This exhibition presented more than 50 objects, representing some of Ponti’s most outstanding pieces of furniture and decorative objects from the beginning of his career in the 1920s through the 1950s, borrowed from American museums and private collections.

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The Genius of Martin Johnson Heade

June 3, 2017 — September 10, 2017


Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from its collection of Heade’s work, this exhibition presented the artist’s great creative range in examples from an early folk portrait to a late magnolia still life