Georgia Museum of Art, Art museum at University of Georgia in Athens, United States.
The Georgia Museum of Art is an art museum on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, showing American paintings, European works, and decorative objects from the American South. The collection spans several centuries and is spread across a series of connected gallery spaces inside a single building.
The museum was founded in 1945 when Eva Underhill Holbrook donated a group of paintings, including works by John Singer Sargent and Georgia O'Keeffe, to the University of Georgia. Over the following decades, additional gifts and purchases expanded what began as a modest teaching collection.
The Samuel H. Kress Study Collection, housed here, was originally assembled to support teaching rather than public display. This gives the museum a studious feel that sets it apart from larger art institutions, where education and exhibition tend to be separate.
The museum sits on the University of Georgia campus and can be reached on foot from central Athens. Admission is free, and group tours can be arranged in advance for those visiting together.
The Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden focuses specifically on works by female sculptors and rotates its exhibitions throughout the year. This outdoor space is one of the few in the region dedicated to sculpture by women as a defined part of its program.
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