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 of Art Project, created in late 1933 to “give work to artists by arranging to have competent representatives of the profession embellish public buildings,” was the first of the New Deal programs for artists in many fields. Artists were encouraged to portray “the American Scene,” and that is what this exhibition evokes, with this small but choice selection from the permanent collection to mark this very special occasion.