New exhibitions to open Saturday

This Saturday, May 14, we have two new exhibitions opening at the museum: "American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection" and "The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art." The former received some coverage from Art Knowledge News this week and covers a wide range of some of our more delicate works, rarely on display because of their fragility. Some of these are featured in our recently published catalogue "One Hundred American Paintings," such as the John Marin image pictured above, Jasper Francis Cropsey's "The Palisades, Hudson River," Arthur B. Davies' "Castles in Spain" and Charles Burchfield's "October Wind and Sunlight in the Woods."

The other exhibition, "The Art of Disegno," was organized by the museum some years ago, with the help of guest curators Robert Randolf Coleman (of Notre Dame) and Babette Bohn (of Texas Christian University), but has not been on display here. It previously traveled to the Snite Museum at Notre Dame and will be on view at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Calif., in November. The exhibition culls 53 prints and drawings from the 16th through 18th centuries to look at the growing importance of disegno (or "drawing") during that time. It is accompanied by a catalogue the museum published a couple of years ago.

We hope you'll join us for both these wonderful exhibitions, as well as for "Dalí Illustrates Dante's Divine Comedy," already up in the galleries.

Links

While we miss former GMOA registrar Malissa Ryder a lot, it's nice to see what she's been working on. Malissa has a site devoted to her beautiful, delicate watercolor work that you should go check out if you need some Zen time.

Art Around Athens

Sarah Freeman over at the Georgia Club just told us about this exhibition of watercolors by Juan Carlos Camacho that will be opening there in the Village Hall tomorrow (Thursday, May 7) from 6 to 8 p.m. The release says, "An accomplished watercolor artist, Juan Carlos is also a licensed architect. His paintings are well known throughout Costa Rica, and are found in many personal and corporate art collections. His award winning watercolors are exhibited widely in galleries and museums and we look forward to you joining us to experience some of his beautiful creations." Admission to the opening reception is complimentary and 10 percent of the proceeds (from sales?) will be donated to the Georgia Club Foundation and the Lamar Dodd School of Art Latin America Studies Abroad program.