The Albany Museum of Art is located in Albany, Georgia

Albany, Georgia

Albany is a city in and the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area and the southwest part of the state. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the...

, U.S.  The museum is a non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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 governed by a 28 member elected board of directors.

History

The museum was founded in 1964 as the outgrowth of the Southwest Georgia Art Association. It was first housed in an empty hosiery mill. In 1969 a small facility was constructed in a local park. In 1983 the current museum, next to Darton College

Darton College

Darton College is now a four-year state college unit of the University System of Georgia, located in Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, U.S. The college has 84 two-year transfer and career associate degrees and 49 certificate programs.- History :...

, opened with an exhibition of work by American impressionists on loan from the Phillips Collection

Phillips Collection

The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H...

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Collection and exhibits

The museum displays more than 200 works of African, European, and American art from a collection of 2,400 original works.

The African collection includes masks, sculpture, pottery, baskets, textiles, jewelry and gold weights. It is one of the largest collections of Sub-Saharan art in the Southeastern U.S.

The American and European collections include paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture. The American collection includes paintings by Edward Henry Potthast

Edward Henry Potthast

Edward Henry Potthast was an American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England.-Life and work:...

, Joseph H. Sharp, Ernest Lawson

Ernest Lawson

Ernest Lawson was a Canadian-American painter and a member of The Eight, a group of artists which included the group's leaders Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, George Luks, and William J. Glackens...

, Reginald Marsh

Reginald Marsh (artist)

Reginald Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear...

 and A.L. Ripley.

Galleries

• The Banks Haley Gallery - traveling exhibitions.
• The Miller Gallery - art and artifacts from the AMA’s Sub-Saharan African collection.
• The Raymond F. Evans Sporting Art Gallery - wildlife and sporting art.
• The Ralph Hodges Gallery - works by regional artists.
• The McCormack Gallery - exhibitions from the AMA Permanent Collection, collections on loan.
• The East Gallery - works by regional artists, works from the AMA Permanent Collection. (Awaiting a big-money donor for naming.)
• The AMAzing Spaces Gallery - interactive learning through hands-on experiences for children. It features masks, musical instruments, a library of children’s art books, and the “Recollections Room” in which visitors can make colorful works of art just by moving through the space.
• The Learning Curve Education Gallery - exhibitions of artworks by local school children as well as children, teens, and adults enrolled in art classes offered through the AMA’s ARTScool Program.

Exhibitions available for loan

• “Master Drawings from the Shaffer Collection” - 34 master drawings from the late 15th century through the early 18th century including representations of Dutch, Flemish, French, German, and Italian schools.
• “Mose Tolliver” - 14 paintings by African-American folk artist Mose Tolliver
  Mose Tolliver
  Mose Ernest Tolliver was a disabled African-American folk artist who worked in a primitivist style. He was known as "Mose T", after the signature on his paintings.- Biography :...
  
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• “Warhol Flowers” - 10 silk screen
  Screen-printing
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   prints by Andy Warhol
  Andy Warhol
  Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
  
   that have been hand-watercolored
  Watercolor painting
  Watercolor or watercolour , also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle...
  
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• "Studio Glass
  Art glass
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   from the Schuman Collection" - 63 sculptural works by artists such as Harvey Littleton
  Harvey Littleton
  Harvey Littleton is an American educator and glass artist. Born in Corning, New York, he grew up in the shadow of Corning Glassworks, where his father headed Research and Development during the 1930s...
  
   and Dominick Labino
  Dominick Labino
  Dominick Labino Dominick Labino was an internationally-known scientist, inventor, artist and master craftsman in glass. Labino's art works in glass are in the permanent collections of more than 100 museums throughout the world...
  
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External links

• Albany Museum of Art