- Collection:
- Finding Aids
- Title:
- MS-80m Athos Menaboni Collection of Cason Callaway/Callaway Gardens
- Date of Original:
- 1983/2024
- Subject:
- Troup County (Ga.)
Education--Georgia--Troup County
Archives--Collection management--Georgia--Troup County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- finding aids
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Cason Callaway and his wife, Virginia, were friends and patrons of Athos Menaboni. They commissioned the artist for works for their personal collection as well as for Callaway Gardens, in Pine Mountain, Georgia, where they also sponsored several Menaboni exhibitions. Menaboni and his wife, Sara, shared a love for nature with the Callaways and treasured their time with them. The Menabonis left their estates to Callaway Gardens’ Ida Cason Callaway Foundation. The Athos Menaboni Nature Wing, located in the Gardens’ Virginia Hand Callaway Discovery Center, honors his life and art. Art, correspondence files, photographs, scrapbooks, and other ephemera were also given to the Ida Cason Callaway Foundation after the death of Sara Menaboni. The Foundation then donated most of this material to the Troup County Archives to insure proper storage, preservation, and conservation. Don Russell Clayton was also a friend of Sara and Athos Menaboni, and is a collector of all things related to the artist. He has added appropriate items to the collection since it was donated to the TCA.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/1460
- IIIF manifest:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/findingaids:1460/manifest.json
- Original Collection:
- Estate of Sara Arnold Menaboni; Ida Cason Callaway Foundation; Clayton, D. Russell
- Holding Institution:
- Troup County Archives
- Rights:
-
