Georgia Museum of Art, Art museum on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Georgia, United States
The Georgia Museum of Art is the University of Georgia's art museum and, since 1982, the official art museum of the state of Georgia. Its building on UGA's East Campus, expanded and remodeled in 2011 by Gluckman Mayner Architects, holds more than 17,000 works, from 19th- and 20th-century American paintings to the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance paintings.
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 museum is the official art museum of the state of Georgia, a status it has held since 1982. It also serves as the University of Georgia's academic museum, organizing its own exhibitions and hosting traveling shows from other institutions.
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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