exhibitions
In Dialogue: On Wonder and Witnessing at Tallulah Falls Sepember 7, 2024 – January 12, 2025
This exhibition focuses on George Cooke’s “Tallulah Falls,” a pivotal example of early southern U.S. painting, by considering the notion of natural wonder and the dynamics of witnessing the natural world
Nineteenth-century tourist destinations in North America, such as the cascades at Tallulah Falls in northeast Georgia and Niagara Falls in northwest New York, stood as em - blems of the nation’s unblemished and powerful wilder- ness. American writers and painters like Cooke, Thomas Addison Richards and Henry R. Jackson believed that their visions of American nature were a patriotic project. They sought to associate the U.S. landscape with a sublime present and future in contrast to the picturesque past of the European Old World. In doing so, these early American painters sought to lay claim to the landscape for the white settlers and forcibly erase the histories of the Indigenous nations who stewarded the lands and waters. The exhibition places Cooke’s and Richards’ landscapes alongside contemporary photographs of Tallulah Gorge by Caitlin Peterson to illuminate the contradictions involved in marking off natural wonders and the paradoxes of witnessing nature. Through these visual conversations, 19th-century southern art is seen in new contexts, includ- ing in relation to Indigenous and environmental histories of the region. “In Dialogue” is a series of installations in which the Geor - gia Museum of Art’s curators create focused, innovative conversations around works of art from the permanent collection. The series brings these familiar works to life by placing them in dialogue with objects by influential peers, related sketches and studies or objects from other periods.
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George Cooke (American, 1793 – 1849), “Tallulah Falls,” 1841. Oil on canvas, 35 1/4 × 28 1/4 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Mrs. William Lorenzo Moss. GMOA 1959.646.
Curator: Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, George Putnam Curator of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum
A Perfect Model: Prints after Anthony van Dyck’s Portraits June 8 – December 1, 2024
Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 – 1641) was one of the most successful artists of his generation, especially admired for his evocative portraits.
He undertook the ambitious project of creating a series of prints depicting famous scholars, military men, nobles and artists. Van Dyck’s prints were widely copied by his contemporaries and were often altered and reprinted over the centuries. This exhibition presents prints that attest to Van Dyck’s lasting impact as printmaker and portraitist.
Curator: Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art
Paulus Pontius (Flemish, 1603 – 1658) after Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 - 1641), “Don Diego Gusman,” n.d. Engraving on paper, 9 1/2 × 7 3/4 inches.Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Alfred H. Holbrook. GMOA 1967.1714.
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