- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Oglethorpe University Museum of Art
- Date of Original:
- 1708/2022
- Subject:
- Museums--Georgia--Atlanta
Art museums--Georgia--Atlanta
Art--Georgia--Atlanta
Columns--Georgia--Atlanta
College art museums--Georgia--Atlanta
Painting--Georgia--Atlanta
Sculpture--Georgia--Atlanta
College buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.). Museum of Art
Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, 33.77153, -84.22641
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The museum's two galleries, South and Skylight, are known for their intimacy and the carefully chosen music that accompanies each exhibition. With its hardwood floors, white columns, and earth-red walls, the building is often called a jewel itself.
Photograph of the interior of a gallery at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. The spacious gallery features hardwood floors, white columns, and earth-red walls. Works hang on the walls, and several sculptures are exhibited on pillars.
The mission of the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art is to exhibit figurative or realistic art that is international, spiritual, or metaphysical. Oglethorpe University is a small private university, and its art museum is the only one on such a campus in the Southeast that regularly shows nationally and internationally recognized exhibitions. The museum has a small but important permanent collection stressing its mission. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/oglethorpe-university-museum-of-art/m-1108/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/oglethorpe-university-museum-art
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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