Museum News

Art Panel Exhibitions Tour Ten Georgia Counties

With the support of the Georgia Council for the Arts, the Morris Museum of Art has created two traveling panel exhibitions—A Song of You: Images of Georgia and Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: The Paintings of John Baeder. The exhibitions will be displayed in public libraries in ten Georgia counties—Johnson, Washington, Hancock, Glascock, Jefferson, Lincoln, Taliaferro, McDuffie, Warren, and Burke—that do not have major visual art institutions of their own.

"Selecting the Morris Museum of Art to tour reproductions of their valuable collection was a no-brainer," according to GCA Executive Director Susan Weiner. "The Morris does this kind of thing uniquely well. Providing access to the arts can be achieved in many ways, and I hope this encourages Georgia citizens to visit this exhibition, the Morris Museum, and other museums throughout the state."

A Song of You: Images of Georgia illustrates the rich art history of the state, beginning with the naturalist-painters of the eighteenth century and continuing to the present. The exhibition includes eighteen images of Georgia by some of the most well-known and prominent artists represented in the Morris Museum's permanent collection, among them Lamar Dodd, Howard Finster, Freeman Schoolcraft, and Henry Ossawa Tanner.

"As a Georgia institution, the Morris has a particular interest in supporting Georgia artists," commented David Tucker, curator of education at the Morris Museum of Art. "This exhibition provides residents of the Central Savannah River Area an opportunity to encounter, perhaps for the first time, some of the gems of the museum's collection."

The second exhibition, Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: The Paintings of John Baeder, comprises eighteen realist paintings of the artist's favorite diners. The works represented here are from a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Morris and now traveling to other Southern cities.