Betsy Eby and Bo Bartlett, husband and wife, live during the winter in Columbus, Georgia, where he is active with the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University. They spend their summers on an island off the coast of Maine. Their work can be found in public and private collections throughout the United States, including that of the Morris Museum…

An ardent Southerner, Conrad Wise Chapman (1842–1910), unable to reconcile himself to the Confederacy’s loss, traveled to Mexico for a time after the Civil War. Eventually, he moved his family to Richmond, Virginia, and in 1898 sold the paintings in this exhibition to what has become the Museum of the Confederacy. They remain an important part of that museum’s collections…

Drawn from local collections, this exhibition represented the work of three generations of the acclaimed Moulthrop family of woodturners. Ed Moulthrop (May 22, 1916–September 24, 2003), credited as the “father of modern woodturning,” was a noted architect and professor before becoming a woodturning artist and transforming it into a widely respected art form. His son, Philip Moulthrop (born November 12,…

James Calvert Smith’s commissions included murals in the American Museum of Natural History and the Ford Foundation in New York, and the Library of Congress. In addition to his illustrations and cartoons, Smith also painted landscapes. The graceful union of nature and village in his scenes became known as the “Smith Style.” He spent most of his professional life in…

One of Georgia’s leading realist painter—he often invites comparison to Andrew Wyeth—William Entrekin, a native of Rome, Georgia, and now a resident of Acworth, was represented here by more than thirty works in watercolor, oil, and egg tempera—landscapes, figure paintings, and still lifes. His work is widely collected by individuals, corporations, and museums. He leaves the viewer with the sense…