This exhibition catalogue presents about two dozen children's chairs as well as a doll's chair and adult chairs for comparison of scale and style. Not all of these chairs were made in Georgia but all are in Georgia collections. Most of the chairs are handmade in the tradition of turned chairs; some are the products of proto-industrial shops called Variety Works. Most of them also retain their life histories of paint and wear from being used as a support while children were learning to walk.

Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism

Paul Manoguerra

David A. Lewis

William U. Eiland

Jeffrey Richmond-Moll

Philip Eliasoph

Akela Reason

Louise Siddons

Maurita N. Poole

Arts & Photography

Georgia Museum of Art

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

Asen Kirin

Katherine Marsengill

"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. This survey exhibition and catalogue, published and organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, include approximately 60 works from the beginnings of her career to the end of it, reflecting her experiences as a painter, printmaker, and weaver. Her large-scale canvases often incorporate African fabrics and semiautobiographical content, which are drawn from her personal odyssey as an artist, her interest in icons in art and world history and her sometimes tenuous engagement with these themes as a woman of color"--

Emma Amos: Color Odyssey

Shawnya L. Harris

Lisa Farrington

Laurel Garber

Phoebe Wolfskill

Kay Walkingstick

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Focusing on Michelangelo's art and biography, Michelangelo and the Finger of God investigates the artist's persona in relation to Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and the Bible. Insisting that the distinction between the real Michelangelo, who is more than the sum of the facts, and the Michelangelo of myth is a false distinction indeed, a distortion Barolsky shows how the biography of the artist was shape by the very works he carved and painted.

Michelangelo and the Finger of God (Issues in the History of Art)

Paul Barolsky

Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art and the Mobile Museum of Art, this exhibition featured 128 paintings from the numerous periods that make up the American scene from 1930 to 1950, when the influences of the Depression and World War II contributed to styles of art variously known as Regionalism, Social Realism, Magic Realism, Surrealism and Precisionism. The exhibition traveled to Mobile, Alabama; Gainesville, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; Coral Gables, Florida; Savannah, Georgia; and Athens, Georgia. Essays by Erika Lee Doss and Andrew Ladis. Full-color images of all works.

Coming Home: American Paintings, 1930/1950, from the Schoen Collection

Erika Lee Doss

History & Criticism

Figurative Connections: Selected Works by Eric Bransby

Laufer, Marilyn

Eiland, William U.

Bransby, Eric

This book contains the lectures presented at the second Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, which was held at the Georgia Museum of Art in January 2004. It includes contributions from John McKay Sheftall ("Restoring the Cedars Inside and Out: The Odyssey of Keeping a Homeplace"), Maryellen Higginbotham ("Bits and Pieces, Paper and Pattern: Researching Wallpaper in Nineteenth-Century Vernacular"), Tania Simmons ("Feeling Gravity''s Pull: The Andrew Low House Bathing Room, A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Example"), Mary Burdell ("Sharing Henry Green"), Susan Asbury-Newsome and Laura Caldwell Anderson ("''Simple Colonial Furniture'': Franklin H. Gottshall''s Influence on Interior Design at Berry College"), Brad Sanders ("William Bartram and the Changing Landscape"), Paul A. Manoguerra ("The Weight of a Perpetual Creation: George A. Cooke''s Tallulah Falls and American Tourist Representations of Waterfalls"), Thornton F. Jordan ("Westville and 1850 Gardening in the South"), Michele Gillespie ("From Artisan to Entrepreneur: William Price Talmage, Ironworker"), Betty S. Snyder ("Milledgeville Federal-Style Architecture") and Henry D. Green ("Adventures of a Collector, Presentation to the Williamsburg Antiques Forum, 1978").

Proceedings from the Second Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts: Georgia Inside and Out

Georgia Museum Of Art

Architecture

This exhibition featured 71 objects from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., representing the imperial, ecclesiastical and secular realms. The book also contains reproductions of American paintings from the collection of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, by such artists as Childe Hassam, Walter Gay, and Henry Golden Dearth. The Byzantine section of the book includes sections on jewelry and glyptics, bronze, sculpture, ceramic vessels, and coins, all of which are introduced with an essay from a scholar in the field.

Sacred Art, Secular Context: Objects of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.

This is the first exhibition catalogue dedicated to Pier Francesco Foschi (1502 - 1567), a highly prolific and fashionable Florentine painter whose career spanned almost five decades. Despite his success during his life, he fell into nearly complete obscurity after his death. This volume offers a timely and critical reevaluation of this versatile and innovative Renaissance artist, featuring paintings and drawings by Foschi and his contemporaries along with decorative arts objects that provide insight into the world of wealthy 16th-century Florentines. It includes essays by Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, Georgia Museum of Art, and the organizing curator for the exhibition; Simone Giordani, professor of art history at "Aurelio Saffi" Institute, Florence; David Franklin, curator with the Archive of Modern Conflict, Thomson Collection, Toronto and London, UK; and Elizabeth Currie, freelance lecturer and author specializing in the history of fashion and textiles. Each image in the exhibition is illustrated full page with numerous comparatives. Damiano, Giordano, Franklin, Currie, Philippe Costamagna, Dale L. Couch, Ian Hicks, Amanda Hilliam, Robert G. La France, Amanda Mikolic and Perri Lee Roberts.

Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence

Nelda Damiano

David Franklin

Simone Giordani

Elizabeth Currie

This scholarly examination of the prints and paintings of Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978) accompanied the exhibition of the same name at the Georgia Museum of Art from August 12-October 8, 2006 and contains many, many full-color illustrations. Divided into three sections, the book delves into the relationship among Brockhurst's paintings of his two wives, his portraits of society men and women, and his artistic influences, which included Renaissance and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painters. Ray also discusses how Brockhurst fit into the modern art scene at the time, including the world of Hollywood glamour photography.

The Eternal Masquerade: Prints and Paintings by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978) from the Jacob Burns Foundation

Romita Ray

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