exhibitions
Southern/Modern June 17 – December 10, 2023
“Southern/Modern” is the first project to comprehensively survey the rich array of paintings and works on paper created in the American South during the first half of the 20th century.
Featuring more than 100 works of art drawn from public and private collections across the country, it brings together a generation’s worth of scholarship. The exhibition takes a broad view of the South, considering artists who worked in states below the Mason-Dixon line and as far west as those bordering the Mississippi River. Structured around key themes that cut across state lines, it takes an inclusive view of the artists working in the region. It also includes a num- ber of major artists from outside the region who produced significant bodies of work while visiting. “Southern/Modern” provides the fullest, richest and most accurate overview to date of the artistic activity in the South during this period and illuminates the important and hitherto overlooked role that it played in American art history.
“Southern/Modern” is organized by the Mint Museum in collabora - tion with the Georgia Museum of Art and is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring essays by leading scholars in the field and produced in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press.
Curator: Dr. Jonathan Stuhlman (senior curator of American art, Mint Museum) and independent scholar Martha R. Severens In-house curators: Shawyna L. Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art Sponsors: Lead support for “Southern/Modern” is provided by the Luce Foundation for American Art. Additional support from the Terra Foundation for American Art; the Wyeth Foundation for American Art; the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Betsy and Alfred Brand Fund at the Mint Museum.
Pierre Daura (American, b. Spain, 1896 – 1976), “Still Life with Luster Plate and Pitcher,” n.d. Watercolor on paper, 15 × 22 1/8 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Martha Randolph Daura. GMOA 2017.31.
Power Couple: Pierre and Louise Daura in Paris June 24, 2023 – February 11, 2024
In 1928, Pierre Daura and Louise Heron Blair married in Paris.
Their social sphere included artists, writers, musicians, gallery owners and critics. Among their entourage was Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García (1874 – 1949), whom Pierre had befriended and helped settle in Paris in 1926. The Torres and Daura families lived in the same apartment complex in the famed Montmartre district known for its vibrant artistic life full of studios, salons and cafés. During this period, Louise painted several portraits of Torres-García’s daughters, Olimpia and Ifigenia, while Pierre produced several engravings of the young girls, a testament to the families’ friendship and affection. This exhibition is part of our “In Dialogue” series of installations in which the Georgia Museum of Art’s curators create focused, innovative conversations around works of art from the perma- nent collection. The series brings these familiar works to life by placing them in dialogue with objects by influential peers, related sketches and studies or even objects from other periods.
Curator: Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art
Louise Heron Blair (American, 1905 – 1972), “Ifigenia Torres,” 1929. Oil on paper mounted on board, 24 1/8 × 19 1/8 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Martha Randolph Daura. GMOA 2003.886.
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