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History of the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art Permanent Collection By Elizabeth Mangone, MCMA Curatorial Intern, Summer 2020   The Marietta Cobb Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection began in 1989 with the accession of A Busy Square, Brussels. The watercolor painting depicts a square overlooked by a Renaissance-Baroque style cathedral. It was painted by Frank […]

“Metro Montage” Then and Now: Celebrating 20 Years of Tradition and Change By Elizabeth Mangone, MCMA Curatorial Intern, Summer 2020 The Marietta Cobb Museum of Art is proud to present the twentieth annual Metro Montage Exhibition this year. The exhibition will be on display from July 11th through September 6th, 2020. The annual juried exhibition,

The History of Squares and Cubes in American Art   By Elizabeth Mangone, MCMA Curatorial Intern, Summer 2020   Visual artists found many ways to cope with the events of the 20th century. Some, like the Surrealists or Dadaists, made art that reflected the chaos and confusion of war and unrest. Other movements, such as

Cubic Contemporaries By Elizabeth Mangone, MCMA Curatorial Intern, Summer 2020.            Given the fact that cubes are one of the fundamental three dimensional shapes, it is not surprising that more than one artist has created art that revolves around them. What is more interesting, however, is that in the late 1970s

Conservation and Visual Art By Elizabeth Mangone, MCMA Curatorial Intern, Summer 2020   From cave paintings of animals to landscape paintings to visual commentaries on a changing planet, the natural world has always inspired artists. These images of nature hold power outside of the art world as well. Especially in the United States, the visual

Athos Menaboni – History and Style Athos Menaboni: History and Style By Elizabeth Mangone, MCMA Curatorial Intern, Summer 2020 Athos Menaboni was an Italian born, Atlanta based artist. He began studying as an artist at a young age, learning from a marine painter, a muralist, and a sculptor before attending the Academy of Fine Arts

Negate (1978) by Daniel Douke (b. 1943) Acrylic on panel Donated by the Thea Westreich Collection [1991.012.005] Negate This is artwork–not just a box! It is also one of the most “contentious” pieces in the MCMA Permanent Collection… Daniel Douke specializes in illusory painting-sculptures that appear to be actual objects. The paper, tape, and scuffs

Marietta Cobb Museum of Art (2015) by Hugh Gordon Mackay (1970-2019) Scratchboard engraving  Gifted by Isla and Leila Mackay [2019.006.001] Marietta Cobb Museum of Art This black and white engraving of the facade of the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art can be found in our library. This piece was gifted to MCMA last year in

An Analysis of Abraham Walkowitz and Isadora Duncan By Hannah Amuka Isadora Duncan Image Credit: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/agc.7a15056/ Abraham Walkowitz Image credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Walkowitz At the turn of the twentieth century, the art world was taken over by a rebellious spirit– one that withdrew from traditions and academia and instead prioritized creativity and originality. The modernist art movement

Athos Menaboni and R.J. Reynolds. Russell Clayton, curator of Athos Menaboni – Framing His Vision: Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the Birth of a Georgia Artist at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art Blackbeard Oil on canvas mounted on board c. 1936 Courtesy of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, R.J. Reynolds Mansion on Sapelo