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Ju96-2006

1Oth-Anniversary Week ru Scheduled Events

Saturday, April 1 @Lecture, 11 a.m. tBruce Cole, chairman of the NationalEndowment for the HumaniriesM. Smith Griffith Auditorium

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Clee Club Reunion Concert, 3 p.-.Hodgson Concert Hall

Saturday April 1 mEOpening, 7 p.^. to 9 p.m.MFA Degree Candidates andSpring Exhibitions

Saturday, April 1 )UCA Symphony Concert andUCA Choirs, 8 p.m.Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Hodgson Concert Hall

Sunday, April 2 @Walking SculptureTour, 2 p.m.Feeli ng the Fa mi lia r Pul l,

AndrewT CrawfordLed by the artist

Hodgson Concert Hall is located in tbe Perforrning Arts Centen (Jnless noted, all euents are free and open to tbe public.

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Sunday, April 2 #Spoleto Festival USA ChamberMusic with Charles Wadsworth, 3 p.-.Hodgson Concert Hall

Tuesday, April4 ,N

ARCO Chamber Orchestra, 8 p...Hodgson Concert Hall

Wednesday, April 5 @GalleryTalk! MFA Speaks, 5:30 p.m.Second-floor Galleries

Wednesday, April 5 .N

UCA Steel Band andUCA Salsa Band, 6 p.m.Hodgson Concert Hall

Wednesday, April 5 .N

Alumni Electronic Music Concert, 8 p.m.Dancz Center for New Music

Thursday, April6 @GalleryTalk by Collector RichardWeisman, 2 p.^.Kress Callery

Friday, AprilT @ilBook Signing, Talk and Reception5 p... to7 p.m.Richard Weisman's From Picasso to Pop

Friday,AprilT .N

UCA Wind Ensemble, 8 p.-.Hodgson Concert Hall

Saturday, AprilS @Family Day Spring Festival, 10 a.m.Pam Blanchard and the Sunny-SideUp BandEd and Phoebe Forio Studio Classroom

Thursday, April6 .N

Classic City )azz, 8 p...Ramsey Concert Hall

Sunday, April9 #Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, 3 p.-.Hodgson Concert HallTickets: $38 and $43

Highlights of the Past Decade

199 6 er^ d opening of the New BuilfingThe Georgia Museum ofArt found a new home atthe University of Ceorgia's Performing and Visual ArtsComplex in April '1996. The dedication and celebrationincluded a lecture by Robert Hughes, art critic atTimemagazine, and a concert by the illustrious opera singer

Jessye Norman._,ilare Manus, Sculptor;Tiffany Glass fromthe Collection of the Late Dr. Edward L. McConnell; ltdlidnRenaissance and Baroque Drawings from the Collection ofGiuliano Ceseri; and Masterpieces of European PaintingfromBobJones Universitywere the inaugural exhibitions inthe new facility. Director William U. Eiland welcomedthe public.

Masterpieces ofRenaissance anil Baroque Sculpture fromt h e Pakzzo Ve n e zi.a, RomeTraveling to the Ceorgia Museum of Art from the MuseoNazionale del Palazzo di Venezia in Rome, this exhibitionassembled outstanding sculpture from the Renaissanceand Baroque periods of ltalian art. The exhibition was

organized by the Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia andClaudio Strindti, Soprintende per i Beni Artistice Storici di Roma.

The Giuliano Ceseri Collection of Works on PaperPlaced on Long-Term Loan to the MuseumAn important group of drawings and prints, the CeseriCollection has grown to nearly 1,200 works of art. Rich inItalian master drawings, prints and drawings of the 19thand 20th centuries, it includes works by eminent artistssuch as Pietro de Pietri, Cuercino andJean-Auguste-Dominique lngres. Outstanding period frames expand thescope of the collection to the area of the decorative arts.

T'he Sea Grant ProgramEstablished in 1971 in Ceorgia, the National Sea CrantProgram encouraged the development, use andconservation of marine and Creat Lakes resources bytapping the expertise residing in coastal state universitycenters. ln 1980, the University of Ceorgia was awardedSea Grant status. The same year, a project involving acollection focusing on coastal subject matter wasdesigned to incorporate the use ofvisual art into aneducational venture. This collection includes 1 1 artists'interpretations of the Ceorgia coast and was transferredto the state museum in 1996.

(99 7 w"tt Found ation CollectionConsisting of more than 50 British watercolors fromthe 18th and 19th centuries, the West Foundarion Collec-tion contains significant British landscape painrings.Renderings include images of streets, hillsides and peopleof rural and urban Britain. Samuel Owen, Samuel Proutand Thomas Rowlandson are some of the renownedartists in the collection, which is a long-term loan. Morethan half the collection is devoted to rhe more highlyfinished "exhibition" watercolori as prized as an oilpainting on display.

U9 I So-Year Anniversaryln 1998, the Ceorgia Museum of Art celebrated its 50thanniversary. The museum was founded and first directedbyAlfred Heber Holbrook, a retired attorneyfrom NewYork who moved to Ceorgia in 1945. He donated themuseLrm's first hundred paintings to a collection that nowsurpasses 9,000 works of art. Fourteen exhibirions wereshown during the SOth-anniversary year, includin g lnnerEye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection.

REMBRANDT: Treasares frotn tbe Rembrand,t Hause,ArusterdarnAs an exchange for the Ceorgia Museum of Art'sexhibition Adrian van Ostade: Erchings of Peasant Life inHolland's Golden Age, this exhibition made its Americandebut at the museum. Each work was a rare impressiondrawn, etched or printed by Rembrandt van Rijn. Theexhibition was organized by the museum in collaboration with theRem bra ndt H ouse M use u m.

2 0 O 0 Masterttorksfrom tbe San Carlos NatianalMuseum ofArt, Mexico CityOrganized by the Museo Nacional de San Carlos inMexico City, this exhibition had never been shown in theUnited States and included works from some of the mostrecognizable European masters in its collection, includ-ing paintings byJacopo Pontormo and Frans Hals.Theexhibition was organized and curated by the San Carlos NationalMuseum of Art, Mexico City, andJoseph S. Czestochowski.

2 O 0( euturpiecesfrom tbe Natianal Galterj ofScotl.andSelected as one of only three venues in the United States,the Ceorgia Museum of Art showcased Masterpieces fromthe National Callery of Scotland, on loan from Edinburgh. lthighlighted works by European and American artists fromthe 15th to 19th centuries and featured the return to theUnited States of Frederic Church's famous Niagara Falls.

The exhibition was a project of the National Callery of Scotland.The tour was organized by ArtReach lnternational.

2 O 02 Rornantics 6 Retol*ti.onaries: RegencyPortraitsfrom the National Partrait Gdlleryt, Lond.oaRomantics 6 Revolutionaries made the first of its two U.S.

stops at the museum. lt included 70 portraits of some

of the most famous men and women of England'sRegency period, such as Lord Byron, painted byThomasPhilips, and Napoleon Bonaparte, by Benjamin RobertHaydon. The exhibition was organized by the NationalPortrait Gallery, London, and the U.S. tour was organized byArtRea ch I nternati o n a l.

The Pierre Daura Center for the Stody ofEuropean ArtEstablished at the Ceorgia Museum of Art with a giftfrom Martha R. Daura in honor of her father, the centercontains a collection of paintings, drawings andsculptures by the Catalan-American artist Pierre Daura,who co-founded the artists' group Cercle et Ca116.Thecenter is dedicated to the study of modern Europeanand American art.

Henry D. Green Center for the Study ofthe Decorative Arts First Biennial SymposiumThe Henry D. Creen Center for the Study of the DecorativeArts organizes ed ucatio nal o p portu n ities, p rovides accessto important resources for researchers, and.assists withthe development of the museum's decorative arts collec-tion with emphasis on works made in or of significance cothe state of Ceorgia. A primary activity of the center is theorganization of decorative arts symposia focusing on newresearch in Ceorgia decorative arts.

TheJacob Burns Fotrndation's Collection of Worksby Gerald Brockhtrrstln 2002, the Ceorgia Museum of Art became the primaryrepository of Cerald Brockhurst's paintings, prints anddrawings, as well as archives of his correspondence andother records. Brockhurst emerged as an outstandingetcher and fashionable portrait painter in the 1920s and1930s. This partnership between the Burns Foundationand the Ceorgia Museum of Art continues the researchthat led to the exhibition The Art of Cerald Brockhurstin 1993.

2 0 03 BecowingaNation: Atnericanafrow theDi.plarnatic Reception Roomsn US. DEartunent afsuteln cooperation with the U.S. State Department, Becoming

a Nation included more than 160 works of fine anddecorative art from the country's diplomatic receptionrooms at the Department of State in Washington D.C.This exhibition was organized by the Trust for MuseumExhibitions in association with the U.S. Department of State.

2 0 0J crmingHome: Awericdn Paintings,7%A-79 5A, from the Scboen CollectionComing Home ended its seven-venue national tour at themuseum. Originating from theJason Schoen Collectionin Miami, chese Regionalist, Social Realist and Surrealistworks included a variety of American artists fromthe Creat Depression and World War ll eras. The

exhibition was co-organized by the Ceorgla Museum of Artand the Mobile Museum of Art.

On view at theCeorgia Museum of Art during the

1 Oth Annive!'sary Celebration. Feeli,ngtbe Familiar Pwll, Andreu T CraufordAndrew Crawford, an Atlanta-based sculptor, works in metal,wood and found objects. His goal is to match organic formwith mechanical objects and to investigate the tension betweenthe natural and the manmade. This outdoor display of eightsculptures by Crawford makes use of the topography of thePerforming and Visual Arts Complex.

. Ten Year s of Acqui.sitions, 1 9 9 6 - 2 0 0 6Thanks to the benevolence and generosity ofdonors andlenders, the vigilance of museum staff and relationships withcollectors, the collections of the Ceorgia Museum of Art areconstantly growing, improving and expanding. One of the essen-tials of a healthy, active art museum is its function of collecting.Ten Years of Acquisitions, 1996-2006 features a sampling of thewide range of objects the museum has obtained since theopening of its current building in 1996. This exhibition featuresworl<s of art byJohn Taylor Arms, Francis Hyman Criss,

Jasper Francis Cropsey, Pierre Daura,John Stockton de Martelly,Andr6e Ruellan, Lucy May Stanton and WilmerWallace,among others.

. Artists ofProminencefroru tbe Permanent CollectionBeginning with the original gift of paintings to the museum byits founder, Alfred Heber Holbrook, the Ceorgia Museum of Arthas housed worl<s of art created by many of the most renownedartists of Europe and America. For this special display during the'l 0th Anniversary Celebration, the museum will provide its visi-tors an opportunity to see works of art created by a stellar Iist offamous artists such as Albrecht Duirer, Rembrandt van Rijn,

Joseph Mallord William Turner,James A. McNeill Whistler, MaryCassatt, Pablo Picasso, Ceorgia O'Keeffe and Andy Warhol.

. Ri.cb ard Weisman's Anily'Warh olsUnveiled in 1979, the'Athletes Series" byAndyWarhol wasmade possible by Richard Weisman's interest in art and friend-ship with the artist. Weisman, who collected some of the mostimportant names in contemporary art in the 1960s and 1970s,urged Warhol to undertake a series of portraits of popularathletes of the time. Warhol painted 'l 0 portraits of famoussports figures, including heavyweight boxing championMuhammad Ali, golferJack Nicklaus and tennis player ChrisEvert, which will be on display at the museum.

. MFA D egree Canili.dates E xhibiti.onThis annual exhibition features work by 16 students in theMaster of Fine Arts degree program at the Lamar Dodd Schoolof Art, University of Ceorgia. lt is an opportunity to view thework of emerging artists as they finish their education in studioart. Many of the artists, though still students, have begun toestablish themselves in galleries and museums throughout theUnited States and Europe in solo, group and juried exhibitions.

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