Publications

Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism

“Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism” accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from February 27 through June 13, 2021. The exhibition and the publication seek to reexamine how we define magic realism and expand the canon of artists who worked within this category. It includes works by Ivan Albright, Paul Cadmus, Z. Vanessa Helder, Patsy Santo, Gertrude Abercrombie, Honoré Sharrer, Eldzier Cortor, Hughie Lee-Smith, Everett Spruce, Patrick Sullivan and many others. The catalogue includes essays by curator Jeffrey Richmond-Moll and scholar Philip Eliasoph and catalogue entries on every work in the show by scholars including Richmond-Moll, William U. Eiland (the museum’s director), David A. Lewis (professor of art history at Stephen F. Austin State University), Maurita N. Poole (director and curator at Clark Atlanta University Art Museum) and Akela Reason (associate professor of history and director of museum studies at the University of Georgia). It illustrates every work in the exhibition full page and in full color and includes many supplementary images.

252 pages; $50 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977-23-9

Publishing Date: February 2021

Emma Amos: Color Odyssey

“Emma Amos: Color Odyssey” accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from January 30 through April 25, 2021, before traveling to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute from June 19 to September 12, 2021, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art from October 11, 2021, to January 2, 2022. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Emma Amos (1937 – 2020) was a distinguished painter and printmaker. She is best known for her bold and colorful mixed-media paintings that create visual tapestries in which she examines the intersection of race, class, gender and privilege in both the art world and society at large. The catalogue includes essays by Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at the Georgia Museum of Art, the curator of the exhibition and the editor of the catalogue; Lisa Farrington of Howard University; artist LaToya Ruby Frazier; Laurel Garber, Park Family Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; artist Kay Walkingstick; and Phoebe Wolfskill, associate professor in the departments of American studies and African American and African Diaspora studies at Indiana University. It illustrates all 63 works in the exhibition full page and in full color and includes many supplementary images and photographs of the artist. 192 pages; $40 (hardcover) ISBN: 978-0915977-46-8

Publishing Date: January 2021

The Seated Child: Early Children’s Chairs from Georgia Collections

This small book accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art October 17, 2020–January 3, 2021. It presents about two dozen children’s or doll’s chairs in a variety of scales and styles, all illustrated full page and in color, and includes an essay by curator Dale L. Couch (who also wrote the entries).

72 pages; $15 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977-48-2

Publishing Date: December 2020

Modernism Foretold: The Nadler Collection of Late Antique Art from Egypt

“Modernism Foretold” accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from November 5, 2020, through September 26, 2021. Its extraordinary assembly of objects dating from the 3rd to the 8th century CE belongs to Emanuel and Anna Nadler of New York City and Palm Beach. The Nadler family has long been one of the most important collectors of Coptic art. Emanuel’s father, Maurice Nadler (1885–1941), a prominent industrialist from Alexandria who made art acquisitions in Egypt and Germany, originally put this collection together between 1920 and 1941.

Coptic art was made by and for native Egyptians, Greeks and Romans who favored both classical pagan and Christian themes. The exhibition includes more than 50 objects in marble, tapestry, bronze, bone, ivory, pottery and stone, which have not been seen by the public in nearly 40 years. Both it and the catalogue focus on the history of the collection and on changing perceptions of late antique art from Egypt, with extensive full-page, full-color illustrations and an essay by curator Asen Kirin.

208 pages; $60 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977-43-7

Publishing Date: November 2020

Master, Pupil, Follower: 16th- to 18th-Century Italian Works on Paper

This catalogue accompanied the exhibition of the same name, on view at and organized by the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from December 21, 2019, to March 8, 2020. Co-curators Robert Randolf Coleman (professor emeritus of Renaissance and baroque art history, University of Notre Dame), Nelda Damiano (Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, Georgia Museum of Art) and Benedetta Spadaccini (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milano) contributed entries on each of the 32 works in the exhibition, all of which are illustrated full page and in color. Coleman provided an introductory essay and museum director William Underwood Eiland wrote both a preface and a brief essay on collector Giuliano Ceseri, from whose collection many of these works come.

Curators selected drawings and prints by artists including Giulio Benso, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Salvatore Rosa and followers of Veronese and Tintoretto to represent specific artistic styles and Italian regional schools, and the catalogue is organized by region. An examination of the drawings revealed some previously erroneous assumptions, resulting in new attributions in some cases. Drawings by Giulio Romano, Claudio Ridolfi, Palma il Giovane and Guercino are published here for the first time.

138 pages; $30 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-091597718-5

Publishing Date: August 2020

Bulletin, vol. 26

The 26th volume of the museum’s Bulletin covers the life and work of lithographer Victoria Hutson Huntley, in conjunction with an exhibition of her work. It features an extensively illustrated essay on her career by Lynn Barstis Williams Katz, Huntley’s autobiography as compiled and footnoted by Stephen J. Goldfarb and brief essays on her health and her time at the University of Georgia by Goldfarb.

89 pages; $10 (softcover); full color

Publishing Date: March 2020

Belonging: Georgia and Region in the National Fabric: The 9th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts

This volume includes the following papers delivered at the 9th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, held February 1-3, 2018: “Following the Ten Commandments: The Tablet Samplers of Sarah Jones and Mary Smallwood,” by Jenny Garwood; “‘great and extended Traffique and commerce’: Philadelphia’s Southern Trade in Pursuit of Porcelain,” by Alexandra Kirtley; “A Pennsylvanian in Georgia and the South, 1834–1846: J. H. Mifflin—Artist, Daguerreotypist, Poet, and Entrepreneur,” by E. Lee Eltzroth; “Nathan Negus: Itinerant in Georgia, 1820–1821,” by Laquita Thomson; “The American Longrifle: An Unlikely Canvas,” by Mel Stewart Hankla; “250 Years: History, Context and Restoration of the Floyd Family Arm Chair,” by Fred and Beth Mercier, “Insights from the Conservation and Reproduction of the Floyd Family Arm Chair,” by Martin O’Brien; “The Floyd Chair Style Context: Continental Spindle Chairs in the American South,” by Dale L. Couch; “From Civil War Savannah to Jazz Age Paris: The Discovery and Return of the Green Family Furnishings,” by Susan Arden-Joly and “Coastal Connections: Savannah and New York in the 19th Century,” by Tania June Sammons as well as a foreword by museum director William Underwood Eiland, acknowledgments by Dale L. Couch and a focus on a recent acquisition by Joseph Litts. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Publishing Date: January 2020

General Editor: 149 pages; $25 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977178

Material Georgia 1733 – 1900: Two Decades of Scholarship

To celebrate two decades of its Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia organized the exhibition “Material Georgia 1733 – 1900: Two Decades of Scholarship,” on which this heavily illustrated catalogue expands. It takes a comprehensive look at Georgia’s diverse contributions to early decorative arts and summarizes the scholarship of the past 20 years. It focuses on revealing new discoveries made in the field, pointing a way forward and making the case Georgia can hold its own against any other state in terms of the quality of its decorative arts. “Material Georgia” surveys Georgia decorative art in media including furniture, silver, pottery, textiles, basketry and portraits. Georgia has had a troubled history, shaped by the system of slavery and widespread inequality, but its diverse material culture tells about the lives of all its people.

Dale L. Couch, editor and author of much of this catalogue, is curator of decorative arts at the Georgia Museum of Art and directs the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts there. Other authors include Linda Chesnut, chair of the museum’s Decorative Arts Advisory Committee; Daniel Chamberlin, independent scholar and former Green Center intern; silver expert Charlotte Morley Crabtree; graduate intern Ashlyn Davis; early Georgia furniture expert Jeff Finch; Jenny Garwood, adjunct curator of textiles and curatorial and administrative associate at MESDA; Brenda Hornsby Heindl, independent scholar and practicing potter; Maryellen Higginbotham, retired curator of the Root House Museum in Marietta, Georgia; Robert Leath, chief curator and vice president at MESDA; Joseph Litts, master’s student at the University of Delaware and former Green Center intern; Keith M. McCurry, an authority on early furniture from the upstate of South Carolina; Caroline Rainey, an independent scholar focused on early American material culture and former Green Center intern; James Rooks, master’s candidate in the UGA historic preservation program and Green Center intern; and Kathleen Staples, independent scholar in the social and cultural history of England and the Americas as expressed through textiles and related craft.

240 pages; $60 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-194665711-4

Publishing Date: December 2019

Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi

This catalogue was published with Spelman College Museum of Fine Art with generous support from the Wish Foundation, Inc., and accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at Spelman from January 25 to May 19, 2018. It is edited by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, PhD, director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, and features contributions by Kirsten Pai Buick, PhD; Erin J. Gilbert; Beverly Guy-Sheftall, PhD; Antwaun Sargent; and Franklin Sirmans; a foreword by Mary Schmidt Campbell, PhD, and an interview between Deborah Roberts and Valerie Cassel Oliver. Additional support was provided by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. It includes full-page, full-color illustrations of the 80-plus works that were on view in the exhibition as well as installation photographs. It is the first major publication on Roberts’ work and includes some of her early work as well as her more recent collages and text-based images. This book is out of print.

160 pages; $40 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-1946657107

Publishing Date: August 2019

Richard Hunt: Synthesis

This exhibition catalogue focuses on formative periods in the career of American sculptor Richard Hunt, whose 130-plus public commissions in more than 24 states have made him a legendary figure in modern and contemporary sculpture. Hunt, whose career has spanned six decades, has also been a formidable presence in redefining the role of public sculpture in the late 20th and early 21st century. His parallel studio career shows his experimentation with a variety of media, methods and formal considerations, but has been underexplored critically as an essential aspect of his later success. The catalogue features full-color full-page illustrations of every work in the exhibition, including welded and cast sculpture dating from the 1950s to the present, models he made after his transition to large-scale public commissions in the late 1960s and lithographs and other works on paper. Curator Shawnya Harris supplies a long essay. The book also includes a detailed chronology of Hunt’s career and historic photos.

Publishing Date: October 2018

120 pages; $40

ISBN: 978-1946657091

Vernacular Modernism: The Photography of Doris Ulmann

This is the first complete retrospective of the work of photographer Doris Ulmann (1882 – 1934), treating the full scope of her production, including her early pictorialist photographs, her studio portrait production, her focus on the rural craftsmen and women of Appalachia and her work on the African American and Gullah communities of coastal South Carolina and Georgia.

Ulmann created studio portraits in her native New York of literary and artistic celebrities but also traveled to Appalachia, the rural South and the Gullah coastal region to photograph locals and their crafts. Because of her variety of subjects, her work is difficult to categorize, but it has elements of pictorialism (fine art photography that often blurred its subjects to emphasize atmosphere) and documentary photography. It focuses on preservation of the American past and shows an interest in some of modernism’s concerns: a priority on form, sharper tonal contrast and quality of line, and unmanipulated prints.

Publishing Date: August 2018

200 pages; $50

ISBN: 978-1946657084

Bloom Where You're Planted: The Collection of Deen Day Sanders

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art from May 19 to July 29, 2018. Drawn from one of the most important Georgia-based collections of American art, the catalogue features furniture and porcelain as well as paintings in a unique opportunity to see the exceptional collection from Bellmere, the home of Jim and Deen Day Sanders. Essays discuss a wide range of topics including the American West, depictions of reading in late 19th and early 20th century portraiture, creating a home out of the best decorative arts, and interpretations of Florida flora and fauna in an Ernest Lawson painting. The authors of this collection are diverse and include conservation botanist Linda Chafin, State Botanical Garden of Georgia special events coordinator Connie Cottingham, curator of decorative arts Dale L. Couch, director William U. Eiland, curator of American art Sarah Kate Gillespie, associate professor of language and literacy education Jennifer Graff, curator of American paintings Donald D. Keyes, associate professor of history Akela Reason, graduate student Courtney Shimek, and former president of the Friends of the State Botanical Garden Mike Sikes.

Publishing Date: May 2018

136 pages; $50 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-1946657077

Clinton Hill

Clinton Hill was a multitalented artist who was a Renaissance man of the abstract. Neither cubist, futurist, minimalist, abstractionist, or constructivist, he was all at once. This book and the exhibition it accompanies (on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia January 6 March 19, 2018) constitute a survey of his career, from printmaker to painter, from pulp-paper pioneer to lyrical wall constructions. Hill s biographer Susan Larsen referred to his effortless fluency of craft, from which his distinctive visual vocabulary takes voice and which these works demonstrate. William U. Eiland is the curator of the exhibition, the author of this book, and the director of the Georgia Museum of Art.

Publishing Date: April 2018

124 pages; $40 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-1946657060

Folk and Folks: Variations on the Vernacular: The 8th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts

This volume includes the following papers delivered at the 8th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, held Feb. 1-3, 2016: The Story of Southern, in Pictures by Robert M. Hicklin Jr.; The Illusive Miss Cox: A Search for the Identity of a Clarke County Portrait by Laura Pass Barry; Woman in a Man's World: Louise DuBose and the Battleship Georgia Silver by Deborah Prosser; Starrs and Stripes: Georgia Silver and Southern Filibusters by Caroline G. Rainey; John Abbot: Early Georgia s Naturalist Artist by Beth Fowkes Tobin; 'Received . . . in a Most Friendly Manner': Moravians in Georgia by Johanna Metzgar Brown; Mary Jane Smithey's Memorial Embroidery by Kathleen Staples; The Creolized Kitchen: Interpreting the Life of a Catawba Indian-Made Pan from Urban Charleston, 1800 1830 by Kelly Sharp; A Masked Tradition: British Porcelain and Georgia Folk Pottery by Joseph D. Litts; Wedding Jug or Flower Vase: A Stoneware Vessel Explored by Suzanne Findlen Hood; Religion, Land, and Cultural Tradition: Johannes Spitler of the Shenandoah Valley, 1790 1809 by Elizabeth A. Davison; 'The Tree of Life, My Soul Hath Seen : Painted Dower Chests in Walton County, Georgia by Sumpter Priddy III; Under Continental Influences: Current Research into the Long-Block Group of Georgia Furniture by Dale L. Couch and Joseph D. Litts; as well as a foreword by museum director William Underwood Eiland and acknowledgments and a focus on a recent acqusition by Dale L. Couch, curator, Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Publishing Date: February 2018

216 pages; $30 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-1946657053

Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the University of Georgia

For more than a century, the University of Georgia has provided students with opportunities to study craft particularly textiles, metals and ceramics. This book (which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the museum February 1 April 29, 2018) tells the story of a small department that began in home economics under the direction of women interested in practical applications of art and design, and now exists in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences as the Lamar Dodd School of Art, named for its long-time director. It features work by more than 30 faculty members who contributed to craft education at UGA (including Earl McCutchen, Frances Stewart Higgins, Glen Kaufman, Robert Ebendorf, Gary Noffke, Ron Meyers, Andy Nasisse and Ed Lambert). Through their work, it traces the history of studio craft in the United States and the cultural forces that shaped it. Authors Ashley Callahan, Annelies Mondi and Mary Hallam Pearse contribute nine chapters that trace the history of the program from the 1920s to the present, copiously illustrated in color.

Publishing Date: February 2018

372 pages; $40

ISBN: 978-1946657046

Louise Blair Daura: A Virginian in Paris

This book accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art September 30 December 10, 2017. Louise Blair Daura is an understudied figure whose work and life provide a window into the artistic milieu of her time, especially the challenges faced by women artists. Her career as an exhibiting artist was short (roughly 1928 1932), and this exhibition and book are the first attempt by a museum to examine it. The daughter of banker and manufacturer Lewis Harvie Blair and Martha (Mattie) Ruffin Feild, Louise was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1905. In Paris in 1928, she married her art teacher, the Catalan painter Pierre Daura, who co-founded the abstractionist group Cercle et Carre. She was a keen and witty observer of her time, and her letters home to family offer insights on everything from the daily life of an American in Paris to the studio practice and personalities of many of her husband s colleagues. This exhibition catalogue features all of her known works of art (reproduced in color), her letters from France to her family between 1928 and 1930, and essays by curator Lynn Boland and Catherine Dossin, associate professor of art history at Purdue University.

Publishing Date: September 2017

364 pages; $60

ISBN: 978-1-946657-02-2

Modern Living: Gio Ponti and the Twentieth-Century Aesthetics of Design

"Modern Living: Gio Ponti and the Twentieth-Century Aesthetics of Design" accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art June 10 September 17, 2017. Authored by Perri Lee Roberts, University of Miami, who also served as guest curator of the exhibition, it examines the Italian architect and designer's work from the 1920s to the 1950s. It illustrates every object in the exhibition, from Ponti's early work designing Richard-Ginori ceramics to his collaborations with Paolo De Poli and Piero Fornasetti on furniture and decor. In addition, the Ponti Archives supplied many vintage photographs and sketches for the publication. Roberts builds a case for Ponti as a modern renaissance man, who drew on the past at the same time that he pushed for modern manufacturing and always believed in design that balanced equilibrium, harmony, clarity and beauty.

Publishing Date: June 2017

128 pages; $50 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-1946657015

Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art January 28 May 7, 2017. It showcases 58 works in Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson's collection of art by African Americans, with full-page color images of each work in the exhibition. Dr. Shawnya L. Harris contributes an overview of the Thompsons' commitment to art collecting and discusses the shifting artistic and political landscape for African American artists found in their collection. Artists featured include Amalia Amaki, Kara Walker, Benny Andrews, Elizabeth Catlett, Hale Woodruff, Charles Ethan Porter, Norman Lewis, Stefanie Jackson, Bob Blackburn, Archibald Motley, Howardena Pindell, and Mildred Thompson. The book also includes essays by David C. Driskell and Brenda Thompson, a foreword by director William U. Eiland and artist's biographies.

Publishing Date: January 2017

168 pages; $40 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977994

Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Their Subjects

Highlighting a private collection on long-term loan that is also a promised gift to the Georgia Museum of Art, this catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on display at the museum September 3 to December 31, 2016. The House of Romanov ruled imperial Russia for 300 years, until the Russian Revolution, in 1917, which replaced the tsars with a Communist government. The court created elaborate gifts for military leaders, attendants, noble families, and others, as part of a system of patronage that helped it maintain its power. Those gifts make up this display, which includes such treasures as the personal cigar box of Alexander II commemorating his coronation, and diamond-encrusted brooches worn by ladies of the court. The catalogue also includes full-color illustrations of medals, badges and awards of all the Russian Imperial Orders of Chivalry, ceremonial swords, armor, helmets, and an intricately designed silver trophy from the Crimean War, among many other items. Assembled by a single private collector, the collection has been virtually unknown for decades. Curator Asen Kirin, professor of art history at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, has selected nearly 200 objects to introduce the collection and its presence at the museum, which will promote its study in years to come.

Publishing Date: December 2016

204 pages; $55 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977987

Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883-1950

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art Sept. 17-Dec. 11, 2016. It includes essays by curator of American art Sarah Kate Gillespie on the history of the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol of modernity and on photography of the bridge, by Janice Simon on images of the bridge in the popular press, by Meredith Ward on John Marin's renderings of the bridge and by Kimberly Orcutt on Joseph Stella's paintings of the structure. All images in the exhibition are reproduced full page in full-color and many supplementary images flesh out the discussions. Full-color images; slipcase; two ribbon markers. Winner of the 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award for Art.

Publishing Date: September 2016

126 pages; $55 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977956