Before 1948: American Paintings in Georgia Collections [Anglais] [Relié]

This publication commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Georgia Museum of Art by illustrating and outlining the paintings included in the anniversary exhibition. American works done before 1948 were selected by Donald D. Keyes, curator of paintings, and highlight artists such as John Sloan, Leon Kroll, Gilbert Stuart, and Lilla Cabot Perry. Novelist Terry Kay contributed the introduction.

Terry Kay is an award-winning novelist and author of To Dance with the White Dog.

Once, drooping boughs of large oaks shaded the house. A few shrubs were tucked neatly against it. The dirt yard was always swept clean by hand-made twig brooms. Chinaberry trees grew in the side yard. Peach trees, too, I think. Peach trees that bore nubby peaches. A well for drawing water was between the house and the barn. Chickens promenaded over the grounds, clutching, claw-scratching for bugs, pecking aimlessly. Dogs slumbered in the shade, blowing dust with their breathing. In spring, the air was scented with sassafras and pine and fruit blossoms. In summer, perfume from honeysuckle seeped up from the pasture. In winter, a cold wood musk--a water musk--floated in from the creek and the swamp. The house is important to me, personally and professionally. It is the model for every tenant-sharecropper house, every rural setting, I have ever written about.