- Collection:
- Finding Aids
- Title:
- MS-2014.02 Athos Menaboni Collection of D. Russell Clayton
- Date of Original:
- 2014
2025 - 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:
- Don Russell Clayton (1959- ), a retired educator from Marietta, Georgia, was a personal friend of Athos Menaboni and Sara Arnold Menaboni (his wife). He became acquainted with them because of his interest in the history of The Coca-Cola Company and its longtime leader, Robert W. Woodruff - the artist’s greatest patron. They first met in 1987 and Clayton soon became an avid and passionate collector of all things associated with the artist. In 2007 he donated an extensive collection of art and ephemera to Kennesaw State University, in Kennesaw, Georgia. The paintings, lithographs, and prints form the Athos Menaboni Collection at KSU and others have also contributed to it. The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation sponsored the Don Russell Clayton Gallery in the Zuckerman Museum of Art (on KSU’s Kennesaw campus), to honor Menaboni’s life and art. In 2013 the archive collection was transferred to the Troup County Archives. Clayton is grateful to the following who have donated items to the collection: Antonin Aeck, Margaret Almond, Rebecca Archbold, Daniel Byrd, Frank Cole, Ann Hailey Epps, David Freedman, Emily Bourne Grigsby, Judith Hardin, Sally Hoge, Helen Bean Horne, Joseph Jones, Jeanette Knazek, Athos Menaboni, Sara Arnold Menaboni, Tina Menaboni, John Ridley, Barbara Cable Taylor, June Boykin Tindall, Betsy Arnold Tipper, Nell Hodgson Watt, Linda Hoge Wilkin, and Suzanne Ivie Willis. The Archives also houses the Athos Menaboni Collection of Cason Callaway/Callaway Gardens. Together, these two collections create the most comprehensive body of research material assembled for the artist and his wife. The Robert W. Woodruff Collection of D. Russell Clayton contains related material.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/1542
- Original Collection:
- Clayton, D. Russell
- Holding Institution:
- Troup County Archives
- Rights:
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