Telfair Museum of Art
The Telfair Museum of Art is an art museum in Savannah , Georgia . The museum is divided into three buildings, two of which are historic houses from the 19th century that are listed as National Historic Landmarks . The collection includes furniture and handicrafts from the 19th century, as well as European and American paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries.
History and collection
The museum is one of the oldest art museums in the southern states and is named after the patroness Mary Telfair. It is in the Savannah Historic District . Telfair's brother, Alexander Telfair, had the architect William Jay build a representative house in the city center of Savannah in the classicism style in 1818-1919 in what is now Telfair Square . This building, now known as Telfair Academy , was donated to the Georgia Historical Society by Mary Telfair to make it open to the public as a museum. After the building was expanded by the architect Detlef Lienau, it opened in 1886 as the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences . In this house, two Period Rooms now show the interior furnishings in the style of the 19th century, while the other rooms show the collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures and decorative art from the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to works by European artists, the paintings exhibited here include works of American Impressionism by Childe Hassam , Frederick Carl Frieseke , Lilla Cabot Perry and John Henry Twachtman or the Ashcan School with pictures by George Bellows , Robert Henri , Ernest Lawson and Arthur B. Davies . The Telfair Academy has been a National Historic Landmark since May 11, 1976 and is on the National Register of Historic Places .
The second building of the Telfair Museum of Art is the Owens-Thomas House . This building was built from 1816 to 1819 also under the direction of William Jay in Oglethorpe Square with borrowings from the architecture of the English Regency . The client was the cotton merchant and banker Richard Richardson. In 1830 it was bought by the Mayor of Savannah, George Welshman Owens, in whose family the house remained for more than 100 years. His granddaughter Margaret Thomas bequeathed the building to the Telfair Museum of Art in 1951. The building houses furniture from the Owens family and American and European handicrafts from the 1750-1830 period. The Owens-Thomas House is like the Telfair Academy , a National Historic Landmark and since May 11, 1976 National Register of Historic Places entered.
Rembrandt Peale:
Dr. Classy Wimberly Jones
Childe Hassam:
Avenue of Allies
George Bellows:
Snow-Capped River
Gari Melchers:
The Unpretentious Garden
The youngest building is the Jepson Center . This building, designed by the architect Moshe Safdie , was completed in 2006. It is also located on Telfair Square and has rooms for temporary exhibitions, a lecture hall and rooms for art education. The collection of art historian Kirk Varnedoe can also be seen here. This includes works on paper by artists of the 20th century such as Jasper Johns , Chuck Close , Roy Lichtenstein , Jeff Koons , Robert Rauschenberg , Frank Stella and Richard Avedon .
literature
- Hollis Koons McCullough: Telfair Museum of Art, collection highlights . Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Giorgia 2005, ISBN 0933075049 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Georgia. National Park Service , accessed July 21, 2019.
- ^ Telfair Academy in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 8, 2017.
- ^ Owens-Thomas House in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 8, 2017.
Coordinates: 32 ° 4 ′ 44 " N , 81 ° 5 ′ 43" W.