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The museum's collections consist of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings, prints and drawings; European prints from the 16th century to the present; and Japanese prints.

The Lamar Dodd Gallery, the Rachel Cosby Conway Gallery, the Alfred Heber Holbrook Gallery and the Samuel H. Kress Gallery in the C.L. Morehead Jr. Wing often feature some of the most important American canvases in the permanent collection, as well as prominent European works. GALLERY INFORMATION: Martha and Eugene Odum Gallery of Decorative Arts, Rowland and Letitia Radford Collection Study Gallery, Philip Henry Alston Jr. Gallery, Virginia and Alfred Kennedy Gallery, George-Ann and Boone Knox Gallery of Prints and Drawings, Rachel Cosby Conway Gallery, Lamar Dodd Gallery, Alfred Heber Holbrook Gallery, Samuel H. Kress Gallery and Martha Thompson Dinos Gallery.

MUSEUM INFORMATION: For more information, call 706.542.4662 or visit our web site at www.uga.edu/ gamuseum. AII information is subject to change. Partial support for the exhibitions and programs at the Georgia Museum of Art is provided by the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. lndividuals, foundations and corporations provide additional support through their gifts to the Arch Foundation or the University of Georgia Foundation. The Georgia Museum of Art is accredited by the American Association of Museums. The museum is located in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex on the East Campus of the University of Georgia. The address is 90 Carlton Street, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602.

MUSEUM HOURS: 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; '10 a.m. until 9 p.rn. on Wednesdays; 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Sundays; closed on Mondays. MUSEUM SHOP HOURS: 10 a.m. until4:45 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 10 a.m.

until 8:45 p.m. on Wednesdays; 1 p.m. until 4:45 p.m. on Sundays.

Georgia Museum of Art 90 Carlton Street Athens, GA 30602 The museum offers a wide variety of educational programs, including docent-led tours, life drawing classes, Family Days. lectures and film series that are open to the public. Up-to-date information on these events is available at our web site at:

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August 12 - October 8,2006 Modern lndian Works on Paper August 12 - October 8, 2006 The Eternal Masquerade: Prints and Paintings by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978)from the Jacob Burns Foundation August 19 - November'19,2006 American Ouilts at the Georgia Museum of Art September 2 - October 29, 2006 Grdfica Mexicana

October 21,2006 - January 7,2OO7 Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum

August 12 - October 8,2006 Modern lndian Works on Paper Since its independence in 1 947 , lndia has been the site of a remarkable awakening of contemporary art. As artists In lndia have adapted traditional imagery and ideas to modern artistic practice, the nation has begun to contribute to the multiplicity of variations on modernism reflective of non-Western cultures.

Modern lndian Works on Paper includes 61 works in watercolor, acrylic, pen ancl inl<, pencil and gouache produced by lndian artists sincc 1947. A broad range of lndian artists from the last six r,lccades will be displayed, from the mcmbct'; ol llrr: ryoLrrrrllrrcal<inq

August 12 - October 8, 2006 The Eternal Masquerade: Prints and Paintings by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978) from the Jacob Burns Foundation English painter and printmaker Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978) is best known for his portraits of fashionable celebrities of his time like Merle Oberon, Marlene Dietrich and the Duchess of Windsor. Trained at the Birmingham School of Art and the Royal Academy School in London, where he won the Gold Medal, he also traveled to Paris and ltaly on a scholarship.

October 21,2006 - January 7,2OO7 Jay Robinson

December 2,2006 - March 25,2OO7 Recent Acquisitions in Decorative Arts January 20 - April 15,2007 Modern Threads: Fashion and Art by Mariska Karasz January 20 - March 25,2OO7 The Carter Collection Revisited

- mid-August 2007 Wild Ride: Artistic Lessons of Nature by hflc strauss January 20

Progressive Artists Group to other first- and second-generation Indian modernists who have excelled in the graphic media to younger artists who have emerged in the last two decades.

Although deeply influenced by ltalian Renaissattce painters Leonardo da Vinci and Piero della Francesca, he was nonetheless somewhat a modernist, his portraits mingling the two traditions.

The exhibition also will feature a series of prints produced by Krishna Reddy, whose inventive color printmaking techniques have been influential and widely acclaimed. A printmaker and sculptor, Reddy's works can be found in several private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in

Between 1915 and 1919, Brockhurst lived in lreland with his first wife Ana'is, and was introduced to Augustus John and his circle by Oliver St. John Gogarty. During the next decade, he emerged as a virtuoso etchel printing portraits of extraordinary depth, clarity and richness.

Washington, D.C. CURATOR: Jeffrey Wechsler, senior curator at Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, N.J.

By 1939, Brockhurst had come a long way from his first exhibition at the Chenil Galleries in London, organized some 20 years earlier. At the peak of this success, he emigrated to America where he lived and worked for the remainder of his life.

AprilT-May5,2OO7 Masters of Fine Art Degree Candidates Exhibition

lN-HOUSE CURATOR: Paul Manoguerra, curator of American art

April 28 - July 8,2OO7

CREDIT LINE: Mode rn lndian Works on Paper has been organized by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. The exhibition is

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May 19 - July 22,2OO7 Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Work by Abstract Expressionists July 21- September 16,2OO7 John Grabach: Century Man July

derived entirely from the collection of Sunanda and Umesh Gaur, which focuses on lndian art of the post-independence era. SPONSORS: Satyam Computer Services, Ltd., the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

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lmprinting the South: Works on Paper from the Collection of Lynn Barstis Williams and Stephen J. Goldfarb

GALLERY INFORMATION: On view in the Philip Henry Alston Jr. and Virginia and Alfred Kennedy Galleries

This exhibition focuses primarily on Brockhurst's paintings and prints deposited at the museum by the Jacob Burns Foundation. Presented in the wider content of his career in America, the pictures are examined with regard to Brocl<hurst's friendship with

Jacob Burns, whom the artist mentored as a student. CURATOR: Romita Ray, curator of prints and drawings SPONSORS: The W. Newton Morrls Charitable Foundation, the Jacob Burns Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art GALLERY INFORMATION: On view in the George-Ann and Boone Knox Gallery of Prints and Drawings and the Lamar Dodd Gallery

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September 2 - October 29, 2006 Gr5fica Mexicana

Quilts, because of their size and fragility, can be difficult to incorporate into traditional installations of the museum's permanent collection galleries. This exhibition provides, for the first time, an opportunity to display together many of the quilts in the museum's collection. These textiles include a chintz applique quilt attributed to the Sewing Society of the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia from ca. 1847, a silk album quilt presented to Joseph Cummings in the mid-19th century, probably in New York state, and a mid-2Oth-century quilt found in Georgia.

Ten lithographs by Mexican artists in the permanent

collection will be on view in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 1S-Oct. 15). This suite of prints from the mid-1940s, Mexican Art: A Portfolio of Mexican People and Places, depicts scenes of the everyday lives of farmers, tradesmen and laborers. It was published jointly by Taller de Gr5fica Popular (People's Graphic Arts Workshop) and Associated American Artists.

October 21,2006 - January 7,2OO7 Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum Paintel muralist. draftsman, as well a collector and performer of traditional American folk music, Art Rosenbaum is highly regarded throughout the Southeast for his monumental narrative tableaux. Weaving His Art on Golden Looms, Rosenbaum's first major retrospective, features representative paintings from throughout his career, including many large-scale, multi-paneled works, along with easel paintings and preparatory drawings that chart the development of his vernacular subject material and signature style.

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i Wnit" many images produced by members of TGP i offer at first glance picturesque and even sentimental i views of their country, they often contain an underpredominantly, verses relating to death anrl trrorrrrr- i tone of social and political dialectic. The graphic arts ing. ltprobablywasmadeforFrancesHonricliir iproducedbyTGPinprints,postersandpamphlets Holcombe Tucker Hoff, who was born in Bcarr[ort, i *ere disseminated widely to promote social and S.C., in 1797, and died in Atlanta in 1B7fl. Slrr: w;rs I hrrnun justice and cultural pride.

the daughter of Rev. Henry Holcombe., wlro r,crvcrl as pastor at the First Baptist Church of Plrilir<1cllrhia from 1812 until his death in1826, ancl tlrc rrrollrer oI Henry Holcombe Tucker, who served as llrcliirlcrrI oI Mercer Universityfrom 1866to 1871 arrcl ch.rrrc:cllor oftheUniversityof GeorgiafromlBT4loltl7tl.

Rosenbaum was born in Ogdensburg, N.Y., and grew up in lndianapolis. He received degrees in art and art history from Columbia College and worked in both Paris and Freiburg under Fulbright Scholarships. Rosenbaum taught at the Craft Students' League in New York and at the University of lowa before coming to the University of Georgia in 197 6.

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CURATOR: Dennis Harpel curator of exhibitions

The presentation quilt is composed of 42 sill< i The portfolio came to the museum in 1978 from blocks all hand-stitched by different women and demonstrating skillful needleworl< and a variety of I the University of Georgia Libraries, a gift of Mrs. mid-century fabrlcs. Joseph Cummings had a ; Kathryn H. Bumgartner in memory of Professor distinguished career as president of several impor- I Louis Bumgartner. tant schools: Genesee College (1854-1858), later absorbed into Syracuse University, Wesleyan i CUnAfOn: Susan Harpel graduate intern with the University (1858-1890) and Northwestern University j Georgia Museum of Art's department of education. (1881-1890). He also served as a Methodist minister periodically throughout his career. i IN-HOUSE CURATOR: Dennis Harper, curator i

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SPONSORS: The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia, R.E.M./Athens, LLC, Foodworl<s, Yellow Book USA, the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

CURATOR: Ashley Callahan, curator of the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts SPONSORS: The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art GALLERY INFORMATION: On view in the Martha and Eugene Odum Gallery of Decorative Arts

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October 21,2006 - January 7,2OO7 Jay Robinson

January 20 - April 15,2OO7 Modern Threads: Fashion and

by Mariska Jay Robinson features 31 works of art-sculpture, oil paintings, egg tempera paintings, drawings and mixed media works-from the 1940s to the 1980s by the artist. Born in Detroit in 1915 and a resident of Kentucky during his youth, Robinson earned a degree from Yale University and attended Cranbrook Academy of Art. At Cranbrook,'he studied under the guidance of Zoltan Sepeshy, Charles Eames and Harry Bertoia. During World War ll, he worked in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C., as a U.S. Navy Training Aids Officer. Robinson .-[fliyrdrlquisComfort Tiffanv Foundation ,

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Modern Threads will be the first exhibition in more than 40 years to focus solely on important fashion designer and artist Mariska Karasz. Karasz learned to sew as a young girl in her native Hungary and used needle and thread to develop three separate successful careers in New York. First, from about i915 to 1930, she worked as a designer of women! clothing, operating a small boutique. After the births of her two daughters, she worked as a designer of custom childrent clothing in the 1930s, and finally as an artist, i

January 20 - March 25,2OO7 The Cafter Collection Revisited ln 1977 , the Georgia Museum of Art presented the exhibition Open to New /deas; New Art for Jimmy Carter, which was planned and organized by director William D. Paul, curator Ethel Moore and artists Les Levine and Dennis Oppenheim in collaboration with 30 other artists as a tribute to Jimmy Carter. The exhibition included photographs, drawings and multimedia works, many utilizing unconventional materials and processes, by contemporary artists including Laurie Anderson, Gordon Matta-Clark and William Wegman.

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Karasz's first wall hangings were representational, often whimsical, images developed through carefully shaded cotton stitches covering nearly the entire support, but she soon moved toward more abstract imagery and looser stitches in a variety of threads. Throughout her life critics praised Karasz for her skillful and unusual use of color, her creative combinations of materials and her ability to mix traditional Hungarian folk styles with a modern American aesthetic.

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PUBLICATION: Brochure to accompany exhibition

This exhibition will feature examples of Karasz's clothing for women and children, along with related photographs, drawings, and ephemera and more than two dozen examples of her embroidered wall hangings. The majority of the objects are from the collection o{ Karasz's family, many never exhibited,

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CURATORS: Ashley Callahan, curator of the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts;

with additional works coming from the collections of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Smithsonian Institution as well as the Georgia Museum of Art.

Annelies Mondi, deputy director

The exhibition will be on view during Women's

GALLERY INFORMATION: On view in the Lamar Dodd and the Samuel H. Kress Galleries

History Month. CURATOR: Ashley Callahan, curator of the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts SPONSORS: The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art GALLERY INFORMATION: On view in the Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries PUBLICATION: Cata logue to accompany exhibition

SPONSORS: The W Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

- mid-August 2007 Wild Rides: Artistic Lessons of Nature by Eric Strauss January 20

Visual enjoyment, music for the eyes is how Eric Strauss describes his steel sculptures created from found objects. Strauss and his works are kinetic, energized by light, full of emotions and constantly evolving. More than 20 years after beginning to sculpt full-time, he remains full of enthusiasm and more certain than ever that he has followed the right career path.

Wild Ride is the largest body of Strauss's work ever assomhled for an exhibitron. ,A narticioant in dozcns

AprilT-May6,2OO7 Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition

April 28 - July 8,2OO7

This annual exhibition features work by students in the Master of Fine Arts degree program in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. lt is an opportunity to view the work of emerging artists as they finish their education in studio art.

The Jackleg Testament is a multimedia exhibition

Many of the artists, though still students, have begun to establish themselves in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe in solo, group and juried exhibitions.

The Jackleg Testament

that combines video, audio and visual art to tell the creation story from the Book of Genesis. Constructed primarily out of woodcuts by Jay Bolotin, who also penned the score and text for the video and exhibition, this mostly sung work is believed to be the first of its kind. ln Bolotin's story, a god figure named Nobodaddy puts on a play every few epochs in "The Theater of the Western Regions." This time, he fears his creation Aclrm

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of group exhibitions and several one-man gallery shows, he has exhibited his work nationally, and his collectors' list reads like a who! who of Atlanta-area art lovers, including Sir Elton John. The title for this exhibition reflects Strauss! inspiration for many of his works. After living on dairy farms, blueberry farms and even in a cypress swamp, Strauss is in tune with the world of nature. Categorizing his sculptures is a perplexing task; his work has been called contemporary, reductive, timeless, elegant and dignified. The Georgia Museum of Art will host nine of Strauss's sculptures, while nine additional ones will be on display at Stonebridge Western Treasures in Madison, Ga.

CURATOR: Paul Manoguerra, curator of

American art SPONSORS: The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art GALLERY INFORMATION: On view on the grounds of the University of Georgia's Performing and Visual

Arts Complex

CURATOR: Paul Manoguerra, curator of American art SPONSORS: The Lamar Dodd School of Art, the and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

W Newton Morris Charitable Foundation

GALLERY INFORMATION: On view in the Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook, Samuel H. Kress and Lamar Dodd Galleries and the Martha and Eugene Odum Gallery of Decorative Arts

sends Jack instead. Jack and Eve travel a dangerous journey to Nobotown where they stage a performance, and the former's improvisational mischief delights Nobodaddy but angers others. Born in Kentucky in 1949, Bolotin spent his youth working on a farm with Appalachian and African American workers. By the age of six, he was carving forms out of fallen trees and would eventually attend the Rhode lsland School of Design. His visual art is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, while his music has been recorded by artists such as Kris Kristofferson and Dan Fogelberg. CURATOR: Dennis Harper, curator of exhibitions SPONSORS: The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art GALLERY INFORMATION: On view in the Virginia and Alfred Kennedy Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries, and the George-Anne and Boone Knox gallery of prints and drawings.

May 19 - July 22,2OO7 Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Work by Abstract Expressionists Big. That is how most of us think about Abstract Expressionism of the mid-2Oth century. The artists worked with big ideas, big emotions, big action and on a big scale. This group of ground-breaking artists, sometimes referred to as the New york School, pushed the limits of scale, using the canvas as a field to act upon. Howevel most also created small_scale works of intense beauty and intimate size, while Iosing none of the bravura and energy.

July 2'l - September 16,2007 John Grabach: Century Man John Grabach was a dynamic American painter with a strong spirit of nationalism whose worl< appears to have been crafted with an effortless mastery of materials. He worked to portray American life at a period in our history that, though difficult due to the Great Depression and the coming winds of World War ll, appears today as a romantic adventure. Grabach worl<ed on views of the American city from neighborhood to urban center. Grabach expressed an interest in art at a very early age, using the windows in his house as his first canvas

July 2'l - September 16,2OO7 lmprinting the South: Works on paper from the Collection of Lynn Barstis Williams and Stephen J. Goldfarb The collection of Lynn Barstis Williams and Stephen J. Goldfarb presents images of the South from the 1920sto the '1940s in prints-etchings. relief prints, lithographs and a few serigraphs. lt is a collection that Lynn Williams began to support her research as a library faculty member at Auburn University and has culminated in a book titled lmprinting the South: Southern Printmakers and their lmages of the Region, the 1920s-1940sto be published by the University of Alab,ama Press in 2007.

Suitcase Paintings, organized by Art Enterprises, Ltd., Chicago, is designed to show this other side of the movement. The exhibition will also introduce to many viewers some artists who, while important at the height of Abstract Expressionism, may be less known today. Suitcase Paintings includes work by Franz Kline and Elaine de Kooning, among several others.

to trace outlines of birds he had seen through the glass.

CURATOR: Paul Manoguerra, curator of

His work served as a mild expression of social

American art

modernism in a time when protest art was on the rise and America was moving in a new direction.

SPONSORS: The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art GALLERY INFORMATION: On view in the Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook and Samuel H. Kress Galleries

Grabach worked extensively in oil and watercolor, approaching the two mediums with energy and inventiveness. It was in the latter he would produce ambitious and successful works that focus on the urban and industrial settings of the city.

The collectors have tried to acquire both positive and critical views of the South that were made during the first half of the 20th century with a few showing origins in the Etching Revival of the 1BBOs as well. Some figural prints that reflect critical perspectives on race will be on view, but most are landscape, architecture and genre scenes relating to work, entertainment and worship.

CURAIOR: William U. Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art

CURATOR: Paul Manoguerra, curator of American art

SPONSORS: The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

GALLERY INFORMATION: On view in the Lamar Dodd and George-Ann and Boone Knox Galleries

GALLERY INFORMATION: On view in the Philip Henry Alston Jr. and Virginia and Alfred Kennedy Galleries

PUBLICATION: Catalogue published by the University of Alabama Press to accompany exhibition

PUBLICATION: Catalogue published by the Butler lnstitute of Art to accompany exhibition

August 4 - October'14,2OO7 More Than Words: lllustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art

Andy Warhol, through handwritten letters to family members, friends and business associates.

CURATOR: Ashley Callahan, curator of the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts

Each writer's unique style provides interesting

Personal letters from some of the most important artists of the 19th and 20th centuries will soon be on display as part of More Than Words: lllustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of

clues about his or her personality. While some of the letters were sent as personal notes, others explore the travels or business relations of the artists. Most of the letters include drawings, caricatures, watercolors and collages that further shed light on each artist's identity.

SPONSORS: The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art

American Art. The exhibition provides a unique look into the lives of several artists, including Thomas Eakins, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Duchamp, Dale Chihuly and

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GALLERY INFORMATION: On view in the Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook and Samuel H. Kress Galleries

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