The Home of Folk Art
The Telfair Museum, the oldest public art museum in the South, is readying to open it’s newest exhibition. Starting July 31st, 2010 and running through January 3rd, 2011, No Ordinary Folk: Southern Self-Taught Artists from the Permanent Collection, under the direction of curator Harry DeLorme, will be happening at the museum’s Jepson Center in Savannah, Georgia.
Jepson Center-Photo Telfair Museum
For the first time in eight years, the Telfair presents an exhibition from its growing collection of work by self-taught artists, largely from the southeastern United States. The show features many works acquired in recent years that have never been exhibited. Highlights include newly acquired sculptures by Tennessee folk sculptor Bessie Harvey and a rare, recently discovered work depicting the Savannah riverfront by an African American sailor and artist, William O. Golding. The exhibition will include a wide range of idiosyncratic and inventive drawings, paintings, woodcarvings, and mixed media assemblages from noted folk artists Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Ned Cartledge, Eddie Mumma, R.A. Miller, Ulysses Davis, J.B. Murray, and others. The Telfair’s folk art collection focuses on Savannah and Georgia, with other works produced in South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida. Read more here-
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