exhibitions Southern/Modern June 17 – December 10, 2023
“Southern/Modern” will be 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 will bring together a generation’s worth of scholarship. The exhibition will take 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. It will be structured around key themes that cut across state lines and take an inclusive view of the artists working in the region. It will also include several major artists from outside the region who produced significant bodies of work while visiting the South. “South - ern/Modern” will provide the fullest, richest and most accurate overview to date of the artistic activity in the South during this period and illuminate the important and often overlooked role that it played in American art history. “Southern/Modern” is organized by the Mint Museum in collaboration with the Georgia Museum of Art. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featur- ing essays from 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 Foun- dation 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.
Lamar Dodd, “Copperhill,” 1938. Oil and egg tempera on linen, 28 x 50 1/4 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Mary and Lamar Dodd to the University of Georgia Foundation. GMOA 1974.3. Carl Holty (American, b. Germany, 1900–1973), “Two Women Bathing,” 1948– 50. Oil on Masonite, 55 3/4 x 47 3/4 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Charles B. Johnston. GMOA 1950.330.
Howard Cook. 1901-1980 (AL, 1930s), “Birmingham, Alabama,” 1935. Conté crayon, charcoal, and colored chalk on paper, 48 x 36 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of the artist, Friends of the Department of Art and Museum. GMOA 1967.1942.
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