Publications

Turned and Sculpted: Wood Art from the Collection of Arthur and Jane Mason

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art May 14 August 7, 2016. Drawn from the donations of wood art Arthur and Jane Mason have made to the museum's collection, it provides the Masons' insights on the work they have gathered over the years. They have grown close to many artists, and in these pages they share personal anecdotes as well as their thoughts on building a collection and their appreciation for the forms woodturners create. Full-page color illustrations show the beauty and complexity of these objects, labored over by some of the most important names in the field.

Publishing Date: May 2016

64 pages; $15 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977949

Cherokee Basketry: Woven Culture

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art from January 23 through April 17, 2016, and organized by co-curators Dale L. Couch, Mary C. Scales English, and Janice Simon. All 45 objects in the exhibition (mostly baskets but also a scarf designed by Georgian Frankie Welch that pictures the Cherokee syllabary and a slat-back chair with a woven seat) are illustrated in full color. Essays by Couch, Scales English, Simon and contributor Joseph Litts flesh out different aspects of these baskets, adding anthropological and collecting insights.

Publishing Date: February 2016

48 pages; $12 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977932

Connections: Georgia in the World: The Seventh Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts

This volume includes the following papers delivered at the seventh Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, held Jan. 30 through Feb. 1, 2014: "Revealing Georgia: Viewing the Cultural Landscape through Prints and Maps," by Margaret Beck Pritchard; "Utilitarian Earthenware in the Ebenezer Settlement, Effingham County, Georgia," by Daniel T. Elliott; "Worldly Goods for a Chosen People: The Material Culture of Savannah s Colonial Jewish Community," by Daniel Kurt Ackermann; "Considerations of William Verelst s 'The Common Council of Georgia Receiving the Indian Chiefs,' 1734 36," by Kathleen Staples; "Materiality in the Gullah Geechee Culture: The Kitchen in the Heart of the Story," by Althea Sumpter; "Colonial South Carolina Indigo: Red, White, and Black Made Blue," by Andrea Feeser; "Scarf and Dress Designs by Frankie Welch: Highlighting Georgia Through Her Americana," by Ashley Callahan; "Georgia's Textile Connections: Imports, Homespun and Industry," by Madelyn Shaw; "Weaving History: The Yeoman, the Slave, the Coverlet," by Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith; "Capitalism and Revolution: A Staffordshire Mug and Its Anti-Monarchial Message," by Lauren Word; "Sumptuous Goods: The McKinne-Whitehead-Rowland Collection at the Georgia Museum of Art," by Julia N. Jackson; "Valley View: Reflecting on a Place, Its People, and Its Furnishings," by Maryellen Higginbotham; "Mexican Silver in an Antebellum Georgia Household," by Carolyn Shuler; "From London to Shanghai, 1780 1920: How Five Generations of Yonges and Brownes Brought Their Silver to Columbus, Georgia," by Sandra Strother Hudson; and "Shopping from London to Naples for a Future Country Palace in Macon: William and Anne Tracy Johnston on the Grand Tour, 1851 1854," by Jonathan H. Poston, 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 2016

224 pages; $30

ISBN: 978-0-915977-92-5

Georgia's Girlhood Embroidery: "Crowned with Glory and Immortality"

This fully illustrated catalogue by independent scholar and guest curator Kathleen Staples accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Georgia Museum of Art from October 31, 2015 to February 28, 2016. Georgia's Girlhood Embroidery: "Crowned with Glory and Immortality" is the first comprehensive exhibition to focus on colonial and antebellum girlhood embroideries created either in Georgia or by Georgians. These embroideries, also known as samplers, include rows of alphabets, quotations in prose and verse, images of architecture and embellished floral borders. Needlework took place in many different settings: public and private, elective and required, urban and rural. In Georgia's Girlhood Embroidery, Staples takes readers into the lives of the young sampler makers and brings to light the history of feminine skills and girlhood education in the state. The catalogue includes twenty-two samplers from public and private collections, including those of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), the Midway Museum, the Charleston Museum, Telfair Museums, St. Vincent's Academy of Savannah, Georgia, and the President James K. Polk Home and Museum.

Publishing Date: December 2015

182 pages; $20 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977918

El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida y Arte

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art June 13-Sept. 13, 2015. It includes full-color images of every work in the exhibition and many supplementary works produced by the Mexican printmaking workshop, as well as essays by Deborah Caplow, Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Helga Prignitz-Poda, collector Michael T. Ricker, Arturo García Bustos and Pablo Méndez, each addressing a different aspect of the workshop. Catalogue entries provide more information on the individual works. It is the most comprehensive and most completely illustrated publication on the workshop and is an essential reference work as well as a handsome publication for the layperson.

Publishing Date: June 2015

476 pages; $85 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0-915977-89-5

Chaos & Metamorphosis: The Art of Piero Lerda

This exhibition catalogue, with an extensive essay by curator Laura Valeri that makes use of the artist's papers and archival materials, focuses on the work of Italian artist Piero Lerda (1927-2007), in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name (Feb. 14-May 10, 2015) at the Georgia Museum of Art. Working meticulously in a variety of media such as India ink and wax, acrylic paint and innumerable collage materials from candy wrappers to corrugated cardboard, Lerda created abstract works that are at once playful and cerebral. Valeri investigates his symbolic language (e.g., kites, merry-go-round cities), lays out his biography and contextualizes his work. This is the first catalogue in English on Lerda's work and reproduces in full-page color all 38 works in the exhibition.

Publishing Date: February 2015

96 pages; $15 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977888

A Year on the Hill: Work by Jim Fiscus and Chris Bilheimer

This catalogue documents the collaborative exhibition of work by photographer Jim Fiscus and graphic designer Chris Bilheimer, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art Dec. 13, 2014 - March 8, 2015. In addition to their large scale, the photographs it includes are distinguished by various overlay treatments. All the work on this project took place on the Hill, a neighborhood in Athens, Ga., between the end of 2009 and fall 2010. Fiscus is an award-winning advertising and editorial photographer whose clients include Levis, Guinness, HBO, Nike, Coca-Cola and ESPN. Bilheimer is a Grammy-nominated graphic artist who has designed packaging for R.E.M, Green Day and Nirvana, among many others. This collaboration is the result of their personal friendship and time together in Athens. Asen Kirin, guest curator, supplied an essay analyzing the work for the catalogue, which reproduces all the works in color and was designed by Bilheimer.

Publishing Date: December 2014

48 pages; $10 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977871

Pierre Daura (1896-1987): Picturing Attachments

This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition devoted to the many works that the Catalan-American painter Pierre Daura created throughout his career in response to his personal relationships. His courtship, his marriage to an American, the birth of his daughter Martha, his family's home life in St. Cirq-La-Popie, his service in the Spanish Civil War, his exile to the United States during World War II and his wife's illness and death represent events to which Daura responded with deeply personal images that can be counted among his most beautiful, original and moving works, whether on paper, canvas or wood. The text was written by Dr. Adelheid Gealt, director of the Indiana University Art Museum and professor of fine arts at Indiana University, and the catalogue is published by the Georgia Museum of Art. Research was supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Daura Foundation and IU's New Frontiers grant program. This exhibition and the accompanying catalogue are dedicated to Thomas W. Mapp and Andrew W. Ladis.

Publishing Date: October 2014

136 pages; $50 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977864

Homecoming: The Sixth Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts

This volume comprises papers from the Georgia Museum of Art's sixth Henry D. Green Symposium for the Decorative Arts, held February 2 - 4, 2012. The theme marked the museum's return to its expanded building and the return of the symposium to Georgia topics. The publication includes the following essays: Deanne Deavours, Reminiscences of a Professional Life on the Forefront of American Decorative Arts; Daniel Kurt Ackermann, New Stories from Familiar Objects: Discovering the African American Imprint on Southern Decorative Arts at MESDA; William S. Burdell, Images of the Geechee People and Their Culture; Ashley Callahan Modern Antiques by Henry Eugene Thomas: Images of and Comments on the Georgia Bellflowers Exhibition; Treadwell Rice Crown, Known and Grown: Plants and Plantings of Cedar Lane Farm; Fred and Beth Mercier, Restoration, Revelation, and Reunion: The General John Floyd House; John Charles Knowlton Jr., Small and Gracious: A Planter's Home in Talbot County; Michelle Miller, Painted Porcelain of the Lycett Studios of Atlanta; Tania June Sammons, Supplied by England: The Thomas Gibbons Silver Collection; Samuel N. Thomas Jr., Mechanics of Time: Clock Peddlers of the Southern Piedmont and the Clocks They Peddled; Chris Schleier, By Eye and Feel; William Dunn Wansley, Cobbham's Dunn Jug; Kathleen Staples, The Butler-Downer Coverlet: A Masterpiece of Embroidered Histories; and Paul Manoguerra, The Billups Portraits; as well as four notes delivered by students, an introduction by Dale L. Couch and a foreword by museum director William Underwood Eiland.

Publishing Date: January 2014

200 pages; $30 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977833

The Material of Culture: Renaissance Medals and Textiles from the Ulrich A. Middeldorf Collection

This catalogue by Perri Lee Roberts accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art Oct. 26, 2013-Jan. 12, 2014, and consisting primarily of medals, plaquettes and textiles from Indiana University Art Museum. Both catalogue and exhibition present a historical overview of Ulrich A. Middeldorf's career as an art historian, teacher and curator. Contextual material provides insight into how these luxury artifacts were utilized in the Renaissance and the various ways in which they convey the desire for personal recognition, taste for public display and a sense of general pride and enjoyment so prevalent in 16th-century Italian urban society. Includes full-color images of almost every work in the exhibition.

Publishing Date: October 2013

96 pages; $20 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977826

Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762-1796)

"Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762-1796)," organized by Dr. Asen Kirin at the University of Georgia s Lamar Dodd School of Art, is an exceptional exhibition for the Georgia Museum of Art. Not only are the objects on which it focuses remarkable achievements of European decorative arts, but the scholarship its accompanying catalogue contains adds immeasurably to the field. Kirin examines Catherine s use of art patronage as a tool to solidify her grasp on power through her evocation of both the classical past and Byzantine heritage. In essays that focus in depth on the Orlov vase, the Buch chalice and the Green Frog Service, he takes a close look at the intricate symbolism each object evokes and the exuberance of meaning each was meant to convey. Scott Ruby, Liana Paredes, and Kristen Regina, of Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, contribute essays and catalogue entries that further add to the body of knowledge on this singular and fascinating ruler. The catalogue stands as a record of the exhibition, with full-page color images of nearly every object it includes, but goes beyond that to serve as a resource for scholars and the general public.

Publishing Date: September 2013

232 pages; $50 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977819

Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art

This catalogue accompanies the first major exhibition devoted to the art and activities of Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square), the artistic group cofounded in 1929 by Pierre Daura (1896 1976), Joaquín Torres-García (1874 1949) and Michel Seuphor (1901 1999). It includes essays by Pierre Daura Curator of European Art Lynn Boland, Laura Valeri, Catherine Dossin and Filip Lipinski, artists' biographies by Caroline Barratt and translations into English of the group's three journal issues for the first time (by Laura Valeri). The book includes a section of 126 color plates, including not only works included in the Georgia Museum of Art's exhibition but also works that appeared in Cercle et Carré's original 1930 exhibition in Paris and that were published in its journal. Artists represented include Daura, Torres-García, Seuphor, Hans Arp, Marcelle Cahn, Franciska Clausen, Le Corbusier, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Antoine Pevsner, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Stella, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and H.N. Werkman. A black-and-white section of images reproduces photographs from that original exhibition, of both its installation and the artists involved. Complementing the primary-source materials in the Georgia Museum of Art's Pierre Daura Center's archives, this exhibition and its catalogue make an important contribution to understanding international abstract art in the period between the wars.

Publishing Date: September 2013

320 pages; $40 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977802

The Kress Project

This small, gilt-edged book includes works by winners of the Georgia Museum of Art's Kress Project, part of a two-year initiative by the museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its Kress Study Collection, a small but important group of Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings. Artists of all types were invited to respond to the paintings, and a panel of three judges--visual artist Didi Dunphy, English professor Jed Rasula, and Kate Pierson, founding member of The B-52s--chose the winning entries. The volume includes 62 black-and-white or color photos and a companion DVD.

Publishing Date: July 2013

227 pages; $20 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977796

Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy

In 1946, J. LeRoy Davidson began assembling a collection of contemporary American paintings to show the world what his countrymen could do in modern art. By 1948, those works had been auctioned off to buyers across the nation, Davidson forced to resign, his position abolished and the entire project a laughingstock in the media. Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy reunites nearly all of the paintings Davidson purchased, recreating his original proposed exhibition and investigating the U.S. State Department's use of fine art as a valuable tool in the Cold War. Organized by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma and supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Henry Luce Foundation, this exhibition draws from the permanent collections of ten museums, private collectors, and other public institutions and includes many of the images from Advancing American Art. Representing works by artists from Romare Bearden to Ben Shahn, Stuart Davis, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Loren MacIver, Jacob Lawrence, Marsden Hartley, and Arthur Dove, Art Interrupted includes many important figures in the development of American modernism. Although his plan to promote the vitality of American art abroad failed, Davidson's project had a second life as the works were dispersed across the nation. In the collections of, primarily, university museums and galleries, including the three organizing institutions, they exemplified the principles for which he had intended them and reached countless Americans in their formative years.

Publishing Date: July 2012

280 pages; $65 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977789

Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas

This exhibition catalogue chronicles the life and work of Henry Eugene Thomas, a prominent figure in the first generation of collectors from Georgia who operated during the first recovery of furniture from Piedmont Georgia. Not only did Thomas discover many of the masterpieces that are now icons of early Georgia furniture, he also restored many of them. Thomas also was a significant craftsman in his own right, who created a recognizable Colonial Revival style from the 1920s through the 1950s and provided furnishings for many prominent homes in Athens. This small attractive catalogue includes more than 40 illustrations, a previously unpublished manuscript by Thomas's son Jack and a checklist of the exhibition.

Publishing Date: January 2012

107 pages; $16 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977772

Neighboring Voices: The Decorative Culture of Our Southern Cousins

This volume comprises papers from the Fifth Henry D. Green Symposium for the Decorative Arts held at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Ga., on January 29 and 30, 2010. The theme "Neighboring Voices" emphasizes the richness of southern material culture within as well as outside Georgia. Topics include the development of the collection of objects from Georgia at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Limoges china, painted furniture, Alabama pottery, the silversmith Rev. John Mood and the role toys and imagination play in the decorative arts.

Publishing Date: November 2011

111 pages; $25 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977765

One Hundred American Paintings (Paperback)

Publishing Date: January 2011

320 pages; $44.95 (paperback)

ISBN: 978-0915977741

One Hundred American Paintings (Hardcover)

Publishing Date: January 2011

320 pages; $59.95 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977741

Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art

Publishing Date: January 2011

320 pages; $59.95 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977758

A Colorful Past: Decorative Arts of Georgia

Publishing Date: January 2010

152 pages; $35 (softcover)

ISBN: 978-0915977727