“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...
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...
This beautiful work of art, “ Mir at Rest,” was purchased on recommendation from the MAS Fine Arts Committee in 1992 with funds from the Betty Sweet Simmons Endowment. The accession file I have here on my desk lists the artist’s address and telephone number in Columbus, Georgia, a sister...
In researching and preparing for my interview/conversation on Instagram LIVE with Alabama born Savannah artist, Betsy Cain, I came across this quote by her : “my paintings reference what I know of my own body and what I witness as a dedicated observer of the landscape around me, particularly coastal...
It gives me personal delight to choose this piece to write to you about today. As a curator, I get to make choices, sometimes, based on my own personal taste, my own love as an artist. I am inclined to paint like this bowl is painted. This is my personal...
I am enthralled with this painting. It’s a great size- big enough to make a statement but not looming and visually cumbersome. It’s 29x39” and the two figures and their shapes fill the space so that it is fairly intimate- you are there looking on the scene from a close...
Our piece this week is a painting made by former Maconite, Jim Carson, now of Saluda, North Carolina. It is painted in oil on canvasboard- simply a sheet of primed canvas cloth that has been archivally attached to a rigid substrate, and is 20x24”. Canvasboard is a very well-liked foundation...
“Study in Pathos” is by famed German-born Georgia sculptor and painter, Steffen Thomas. Our piece is a small study that was one of many begun in the 1930s and continued as a theme all the way through until the 1970s even taking form in a large monument. This glazed Georgia...