The Boone and George-Ann Knox II Gallery now features a selection of paintings, prints and sculpture from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection of African American Art.
UGA students help reinstall Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection at the museum by Rachel Palmer, public relations intern
Over a decade ago, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson donated 100 works by African American artists, both well known and obscure, to the Georgia Museum of Art. The Thompson Collection has become a vital resource for visitors exploring African American art, and works from it are always on view in the permanent collection galleries. This January, Shawnya Harris, the museum’s Larry and Brenda Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, worked with museum staff and two University of Georgia students to reinstall the Thompson Collection in the museum’s Boone and George-Ann Knox II Gallery. This gallery is now dedicated to 20th- century African American artists, offering visitors a permanent space to appreciate these works and for UGA classes to practice object study from original works of art in person.
Evangeline Juliet Montgomery (American, born 1930), “Red and Green Circles,” 2007. Acrylic on canvas, 24 × 30 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; The Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection of African American Art. 2011.595.
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