Decade of Tradition: Highlights from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection June 11, 2022 – July 3, 2024
In 2012, Larry and Brenda Thompson gave 100 works of art by African American artists to the Georgia Museum of Art, mirroring the original donation of 100 American paintings by museum founder Alfred Heber Holbrook.
In addition, they endowed a curatorial position to steward this collection to help fulfill the museum’s vision of an inclu - sive canon of American art. This exhibition includes works from the 2011 traveling exhibition “Tradition Redefined,” which preceded the gift, as well as subsequent works added in recent years that have not been on view in other galleries. These works celebrate the expansion of the museum’s per- manent collection through this transformative gift of works by African American artists.
Curator: Shawnya L. Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art
Moe Brooker (American, 1940 – 2022), “Toogaloo III,” 2003. Encaustic on panel, 20 × 15 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; The Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection of African American Art. GMOA 2011.579.
Power & Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art November 14, 2020 – February 4, 2024
This exhibition is part of a continued collaboration between the Georgia Museum of Art and Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina.
“Power and Piety” provides visitors with the opportunity to see works by premiere Spanish baroque painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Murillo, Pedro Orrente and others. Viewers will be immersed in a selection of paintings that uphold the tenets of Catholic Counter-Reformation Art illustrative of the struggle between the Catholic church and the rise of the Protestant Reformation in Europe, which dom- inated the art scene in 17th-century Spain.
Pedro Orrente (Spanish, ca. 1580 – 1645), “Ecce Homo” (“Behold the man”), 1610. Oil on canvas, 46 15/16 x 60 1/4 inches. Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, SC.
Curator: Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art
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