Capturing the Immediate: Impressionism in the South: Paintings from the Permanent Collection
This expansive exhibition includes figurative, still-life, and landscape paintings by many well-known and some previously undiscovered impressionist painters who worked in the South. Driven by the passionate interest of museum founders Sissie and Billy Morris, the museum has made impressionist painting an important focus of its collection since the start. More than three galleries are devoted to this groundbreaking exhibition. Although…
Billy Morris: A 90th Birthday Celebration
With this exhibition, we celebrate the ninetieth birthday of museum founder Billy Morris. The year of his birth was momentous in more ways than can be detailed here. Donald Duck made his film debut. And the Roosevelt administration entered its first full year; its impact on American artists was profound, nowhere more so than in the South. The Public Works…
A Deep Harmony Thrumming in the Mixture: Recent Work by Kathryn Keller
A Deep Harmony Thrumming in the Mixture: Recent Work by Kathryn Keller includes thirty-five of her beautifully rendered watercolor and oil paintings of landscapes, cityscapes, interiors, and still life subjects. Her works evokes a sense of familiarity—a sense of place—and are silent, subtle salutes to the South and the Southern way of life. From towering, majestic trees in a pasture providing shade on a hot summer day…
Recent Photographs by Micah Cash
This installation features images from Micah Cash’s two most recent books—Waffle House Vistas (published in 2019 and expanded and republished in 2022 by the Bitter Southerner) and Dangerous Waters: A Photo Essay on the Tennessee Valley Authority (published in 2017 by the University of Tennessee Press.) Micah Cash uses the visual languages of landscape and architecture to explore narratives of…