Exhibitions are free and open to the public Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For general or group tour information, call 912.525.7191.
Viewing events for November 21, 2009
Oct. 1, 2009-Jan. 8, 2010
"Focus on 20th-century Art: Highlights from SCAD's Collection" SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga. Significant works from SCAD's permanent collection-including paintings, drawings and prints by Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Salvadore Dal?, Raphael Soyer, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Romare Bearden, Faith Ringgold and others-represent changing movements in modern and contemporary art. |
Oct. 1, 2009-Jan. 8, 2010
"The Master Eye: Photography from the Rhoades Collection" SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga. The photographs in this exhibition include iconic examples from pioneering 19th-century practitioners and major 20th-century photographers, who wielded their cameras to capture images of arresting landscapes, richly textured narratives, elegant fashion scenes, singular still lifes and powerful portraits. Featured photographers include Mathew Brady, Eadweard Muybridge, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Annie Leibovitz and other celebrated masters. |
Oct. 1, 2009-Jan. 8, 2010
"Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection" SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga. Maps depicting North America, Great Britain and the world are on view in the museum's three map galleries. Highlights include 1597 maps from the earliest atlas of the Americas, 1776 military maps, and other 17th- and 19th-century maps, some of them hand-colored. Cartographers include Wytfliet, Hondius, Monath, Lotter, d'Anville, Faden, Lodge, Cary and Wyld. |
Oct. 1, 2009-Jan. 8, 2010
"Central of Georgia Railroad's 1856 Gray Building" SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga. These exhibitions chronicle the history of SCAD's Kiah Hall. Once the headquarters of the venerable Central of Georgia Railroad and now a college art museum, the landmark Greek Revival building epitomizes the elegance of mid-19th-century architecture. Exhibition assistance was provided through a grant from the Georgia Humanities Council. Complementing the historical overview of the building is a small photographic exhibition that documents the recently completed exterior preservation of the structure, a project made possible by a major Save America's Treasures federal grant and additional assistance from the Charles A. Frueauff Foundation and the Frances Wood Wilson Foundation. |
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Oct. 14-Dec. 11
"A Warhol Trio: Photos, Prints and Silver Clouds" SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga. The SCAD Museum of Art presents the exhibition "A Warhol Trio: Photos, Prints and Silver Clouds" with approximately 150 photographs by the iconic 20th-century artist Andy Warhol, recently donated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. In addition to approximately 100 Polaroids and 50 gelatin silver prints, 36 prints are featured from the collection of Wesley and Missy Cochran. The prints include two complete series, "Myths" and "Cowboys and Indians," as well as other large-scale works. Also on view, recreating Warhol's 1966 show at the Leo Castelli Gallery, are "Silver Clouds" with 100 helium-filled silver Mylar pillows that Warhol called "floating sculpture." The opening reception is on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 5-7 p.m. at the SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (two doors north of the Visitor Information Center). The museum is open to the public free of charge Monday-Friday,10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. For more information, call 912.525.7191. Read the press release. |