“JOY FIELDS 2” Whitney Wood Bailey Oil/Mixed Media 72x72” 2018 Instead of interpreting a piece from our collection for you to understand and appreciate more fully, I am going to step back a bit further; to the space that exists before interpretation. This is the space that involves the viewer’s...
Untitled Self-Portrait: 3/4 View William Segal Oil on Canvas 24x20” A2021.2.1-17 THE ART OF THE SELF-PORTRAIT: SEEING AND BEING In conjunction with the show of the late William Segal’s works on display at MAS until late spring. As we embark on this adventure of a project of self-introspection...
“JOB” Jerry Smith American/Kansas Acrylic on Canvas 66x90” A2017.07 This painting by Jerry Smith was one of the first I interpreted to our Board of Directors for accession as a Board member heading up the collections committee in 2017. This painting gave me such satisfaction to break down, analyze, and discover its meaning. Therefore,...
“Makin’ It on I-75” Betty Bivins Edwards Acrylic and Papier Maché on board. 32 x 48” A gift to the museum, by the artist, in memory of Joel Plum. A92.19.1 Betty Bivins Edwards was born and raised in Georgia. She creates works of art from her keen insight to what...
The Naked Young Painter William Segal 1947 Oil on Canvas 24"x20” The Art of the Self Portrait The introspection required of a person undertaking a self-portrait is sometimes daunting. You have to look what seems like endlessly into the mirror at your face in a back and forth constant...
Yellow Hat, Red Floor, Paris William Segal (self-portrait) Oil on Canvas Ca. 1980 A2009.1.1 MAS will be hanging the works we received in 2015 by William Segal. These works have never been shown before and will be hung in the Elam Alexander Hall Gallery for an extended period. The 17...
Ed Ruscha Lot (Pronounced REW SHAY) *"City Spot." Ed Ruscha* American b 1937 Color lithographic print 1992 signed and numbered on Lana Royal Paper Edition 58/95 PROVENANCE: FROM THE TIMOTHY AND TERRI CHILDS COLLECTION framed and matted 14x20" Hardy and Halpern Appraisal available $6,300.00 Curator's Choice from edruscha.com: "Ed...
Guy Charon Lot Guy Charon Fr. b. 1927 Tulipes à Paris framed double matted and floated behind plexiglass marked and signed 301/375 Chartreuse, cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, viridian green, pink, blues PROVENANCE: marked on the back as the property of Carlyle Hotel New York to see what a painting is...
By Christopher Collier, Guest Writer for the MAS Educators and civic leaders founded the Museum of Arts and Sciences in 1956, envisioning the expansion and enrichment of the educational opportunities available to Bibb County school children. While the Museum has expanded from a single rented room to a state-of-the-art, 50,000...
By Christopher Collier, Guest Writer for the MAS George Rickey’s Four Trapezoids as Two Rectangles V is a kinetic sculpture that greets many Central Georgia residents when they pull up to the Museum of Arts and Sciences. The sculpture, which is composed of four trapezoids that form two rectangles when...
