Below are five selected works for the 2024–2025 Combining Voices Literary Competition. All artworks are from the permanent collection of the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Combining Voices is sponsored by the Georgia Council for the Arts.
Joshua Johnson, Untitled (Portrait of a man), undated. Oil on canvas. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
Joshua Johnson, Untitled (Portrait of a lady), undated. Oil on canvas. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
Henry Salem Hubbell, Ice on the Water Pitcher, 1914. Oil on canvas. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Gift of Winifred Lydia Wirkus Djajengwasito.
Bongé, Dusti, Unborn Memories, 1980. Oil on canvas, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Gift of the Dusti Bonge Foundation. © Dusti Bongé Art Foundation.
Mary Proctor, Your Grandmoma Danny Joy, 1995. Mixed media on hollow core door. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
Meyer Straus, Bayou Teche, circa 1870. Oil on canvas. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.