For the first stop we visited the Birmingham Museum of Art. Our primary objective was to see the installation of the Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery exhibition.
From the BMA's site:
"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery offers an unprecedented opportunity to experience American history through more than 230 masterpieces from one of the finest and oldest collections of American art in the world. From the arrival of the first European settlers to the Gilded Age, this major exhibition tells America’s story through paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, furniture, silver, and ceramics from Yale University’s renowned collection."
We also enjoyed viewing the permanent collection galleries at the museum. After lunch, the group walked over to the Linn-Henley Research Library of the Birmingham Public Library to see the murals created by Ezra Winter. From their site:
"In the late 1920s, the Birmingham Library Board commissioned Ezra Winter to paint a mural series for the main reading room in the newly constructed library building. In addition, he was also asked to paint a mural depicting famous fairy tales for the children's room. The murals for both areas were executed in oils on canvas in Winter's New York studio. There were later affixed to the walls of the library with white lead, and Winter himself was present to supervise this installation."
Slide show of pictures from that part of the day:
During the mid-afternoon, the entire group had the great pleasure of visiting an exquisite private collection of images by the Ashcan School. Some of the group then departed for Athens while others went and visited an historic, private home in Anniston, Alabama to pick up some watercolors by Nell Shute gifted to the Georgia Museum of Art.
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