American Autumn

AvrERrcaN ArUeToUrMrN EXHIBITIONS SEPTEMBER

24 - NOVEMBER

G EORG

13,

1994

IA

MUSEUM

OF . ART UNIVERSITY

OF CEORCIA

. ATHENS

30602

EXHIBITION

SCHEDULE

S lversmith.

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Orr: Silversmith, Cotdsmith

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Coldsmith

& Enamellst

Enamelist is a collection of over

100 metalworks, mainly jewelry and holloware, created by Ann Orr, recognized American artist and jeweler. The exhibition represents an

assortment of metal pieces from various private collections, many

of

which will be displayed for the first time. Ann Orr studied in Athens, Ceorgia, and apprenticed in New York under Adda Husted-Andersen, an internationally known Danish silversmith and enamelist. The exhibition will be an opportunity to view many of Ann Orr s most exquisitely designed silver and gold pieces. This exhibition is sponsored

in part through the generosity of the Ann Orr Exhibition Committee as well as lenders to the exhibition.

A*"rirono, Folk Art Traditions

represents a colorful and diverse

collection of approximately 70 items ranging from weather vanes, decoys, and carousel animals

to handmade textiles, quilts, and cross

stitch samplers. The works are on loan from Gerald T. Horton, a longtime patron of the perForming arts and collector of folk an. The

folk pieces, dating from the late 1 Sth century to the mid-20th century, reveal the strength

ofthe traditional American crafts movement.

The F oral

& Hummingbird

MartinJohnso, Heade: The Floral and Hummingbird St. Augustine Historical Society is

Studies from the

an exhibition that includes 24

of

Heade s oil sketches that were later used as references for his finished, large scale paintings. Martin.Johnson Heade was one of the most

influential members of the Hudson

River School. The works in the

exhibition range in date from 1 860 to '1 900, and the sketches represent Heade s obseruations ofnature from the marshes in Rhode lsland to

thejungles in Brazil. This exhibition has been organized and is being circulated byche Boca Raton Museum ofArt, curated byTimothy

A. Eaton.

Pa(ial support for exhibltions and programs at the Ceorgia Museum ol Ad is povided by the Ceorg a Co!n.i for the Atu rhrough the appropr arions ot the Ceorgia Ceneral Assembly and the National Endowment iin thc Ads. The Ceorg a Muse!m ol Ad, the $ate museum of afr, s located on the hlstoric nodh campus of the University of Ccorg a Hours are 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.nr. Monday thrcugh saturday and l:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.

For more infuniatnrn, please call (706) 542-3255.

Coverhnages(topbbott)mliUnknown.r(ist,Shorebird,l9thcentury.Carvedandpaintedwood,S3/8x13x25/Sinches (excludinS base). Collection ol Cerald T. Hoilon; Arn On, tsawl, 1 980. Copper, hand raised, enameled wlth tanslucent pink, blue, and lavender. I x 4 3/4 (diameter) in.hes. Loaned by loan Otr Baggs; Ma(in lohnson leade, stLdy of Pink and Yellow Rores, c. 1 865-75. Oil on canvas, I 2 1/4 x I 0 1/4 lnches- St. Augustine Hlstorical Soc ety.