Art from the Collection of Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman

Over the past thirty-five years, acclaimed artist Jonathan Green and his partner and studio director, Richard Weedman, have amassed an astonishing collection of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by African American, Caribbean, Latin American, and American artists that reflects the breadth of their interests, the cultural diversity that has contributed so vitally to the development of American art, and…

Oh! Augusta! Photographs by William Greiner

This exhibition was drawn entirely from the Morris Museum’s permanent collection and represented a group of photographs that were shot over a period of just a few days in January 2012 and was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog. In addition to the Morris, William Greiner is represented in the permanent collections of more than sixty museums around the country,…

Sculpture by Nathan Bindler

Drawn from the collections of the artist’s son and daughter, local collections, and the Morris’s permanent collection, this exhibition featured more than fifteen carved wood sculptures by Nathan Bindler, for many years a mainstay of Augusta’s cultural community. An accomplished musician and visual artist, he was the first chair violist in the Augusta Symphony for many years and taught art…

From New York to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Thomason

This exhibition was drawn largely from the Johnson Collection of Spartanburg, South Carolina, which holds the largest single body of Thomason’s paintings. It was supplemented by major works on loan from the Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; and the Morris Museum of Art.

An Artist’s Story: Civil War Drawings by Edwin Forbes

This exhibition, opened in conjunction with the fourth Augusta and the Civil War symposium, featured the work of a leading nineteenth-century-American landscape painter and etcher, Edwin Forbes, who first came to public attention as a very young artist for his dramatic and detailed Civil War sketches. He earned renown for the vividness and blunt truthfulness of his imagery.