GeorgiaThe Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens was founded in 1945 when retired attorney Alfred Heber Holbrook donated a core collection of 100 American paintings assembled in memory of his late wife, Eva. Holbrook moved to Athens to serve as founding director, and the museum first opened to the public in 1948 in the basement of the university library. In 1982 it was designated the official state art museum of Georgia, and it now occupies an 79,000-square-foot facility holding more than 18,000 objects. The collection is especially strong in American painting, with works by artists such as Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, William Merritt Chase, and Stuart Davis, complemented by Italian Renaissance, decorative-arts, and print holdings.
Georgia Museum of ART
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Georgia Museum of ART is a museum in Athens, Athens-Clarke County. It is one of 8 museums documented in Athens-Clarke County, among 141 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.9447, -83.3789 near Athens. The nearest cataloged historic site is Birthplace of Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Lit D. (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Old Indian Trail, R. Chappelle Matthews, and The University of Georgia.
This record is drawn from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens was founded in 1945 when retired attorney Alfred Heber Holbrook donated a core collection of 100 American paintings assembled in memory of his late wife, Eva. Holbrook moved to Athens to serve as founding director, and the museum first opened to the public in 1948 in the basement of the university library. In 1982 it was designated the official state art museum of Georgia, and it now occupies an 79,000-square-foot facility holding more than 18,000 objects. The collection is especially strong in American painting, with works by artists such as Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, William Merritt Chase, and Stuart Davis, complemented by Italian Renaissance, decorative-arts, and print holdings.
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