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Telfair Museum of Art

Savannah, GA

912.790.8800

http://www.telfair.org

Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

A Native Son: Paintings by West Fraser; essay by Courtney McNeil (3/7/12)

Painters of American Life: The Eight (11/12/08)

Coming Home: American Paintings, 1930-1950, from the Schoen Collection (5/20/05)

The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art (10/20/03)

Robert Gwathmey: Master Painter (3/21/00)

Hard Knocks, Hardship and A lot of Experience: The Maritime Art of William O. Golding (3/21/00)

William DeLeftwich Dodge: Impressions at Home and Abroad (8/11/98)

Telfair Acquires Gari Melchers' Painting (7/21/98)

Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors (1/6/98)

James Mullen: Savannah Plein Air Paintings (10/10/97)

About the Telfair Museum of Art

The Telfair Museum of Art offers to visitors three unique buildings and three distinct collections, bridging three centuries of art and architecture.

The Telfair Museum of Art, founded in 1883 through the bequest of prominent Savannah philanthropist Mary Telfair, is the oldest public art museum in the South. Located in the heart of the city's vibrant historic district, it is comprised of three architecturally significant buildings: the Telfair Academy and the Owens-Thomas House -- two National Historic Landmark buildings, and the contemporary Jepson Center for the Arts.

The Telfair Academy, designed in the Regency style by English architectural prodigy William Jay, houses 19th- and 20th-century American and European art. Also designed by William Jay, the Owens-Thomas House is a historic house museum featuring decorative art ranging in date from the late 18th to the early 19th century and rare intact urban slave quarters. Rounding out the Telfair's trio of landmark buildings, the Jepson Center, designed by internationally acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie, is devoted to the art of today.

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