MUSEUM AND TERRA FOUNDATION team up
The museum is excited to work with the Terra Foundation in its efforts to center marginalized and underrepresented perspectives in American art by pairing these paintings with works from its own collection that resonate with these narratives. Founded by Daniel J. Terra in 1978, the Terra Foundation houses a collection of more than 750 paintings by 242 artists, which it generously loans to an international variety of organizations for the expansion of scholarship on and appreciation of American art. The four paintings on loan to the museum are “Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress,” by John Singleton Copley (1763); “Old Time Letter Rack,” by John F. Peto (1894), “Les Invalides, Paris” by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1896) and “Bucks County Barn,” by Charles Sheeler (1940), with “Telegraph Poles with Buildings,” by Joseph Stella (1917), to arrive in 2023. These works have been incorporated into the muse- um’s permanent collection galleries. Copley’s por- trait is fostering conversations between northern and southern colonial portraiture. Programming in spring 2023 will examine it in light of the links among colonial portraiture, whiteness, the economy of slavery and the ecology of commodities like indigo in the Americas. Sheeler’s painting hangs alongside our red barn painting by Georgia O’Keeffe, raising the question of how rural subjects served the cause of American modernism, which is often understood as an urban phenomenon. They will also serve as a catalyst for the museum’s “In Dialogue” series of focused exhibitions, which analyze a single work from the permanent collection in the context of an assortment of related works. Tanner’s On June 1, the Georgia Museum of Art received four of five oil paintings it will be borrowing for four years from the Terra Foundation for American Art as well as a grant for $25,000 each year of the loan to fund exhibitions including these works.
John Singleton Copley (American, 1738 – 1815), “Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress,” 1763. Oil on canvas, 50 1/4 × 39 3/4 inches. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.28. Photography © Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.
Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859 – 1937), “Les Invalides, Paris,” 1896. Oil on canvas, 13 1/8 × 16 1/8 inches. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.140. Photography © Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.
John Frederick Peto (American, 1854 – 1907), “Old Time Letter Rack,” 1894. Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 × 25 1/4 inches. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2015.5. Photography © Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.
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