Exhibitions 2006
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Myrtle
Jones: A Tribute
Jepson
Center for the Arts I Through September 14, 2006
The
late Savannah artist Myrtle Jones remains a local legend. Raised
in Winder, Georgia, Jones moved to Savannah in the early 1940s.
She soon joined the Savannah Art Club and began to take art classes
at the Telfair with Emil Holzhauer and Rueben Gambrell. Even so,
she considered herself largely self-taught and eventually she began
to teach other area artists.
Jones
made innumerable contributions to local arts organizations, including
the Telfair. Upon her death in 2005, she left the museum an acquisitions
endowment of one million dollars, in addition to ten of her paintings.
This exhibition will present the works bequeathed to the Telfair’s
collection as well as select works from private donors. The paintings
on display will illustrate Jones’s typical subject matter--interiors,
street scenes, landscapes, and the leafy environs of Savannah, as
well as a number of portraits. Myrtle Jones’s work is held
in the permanent collections of several Georgia institutions, including
the Telfair, the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, and the Madison-Morgan
Cultural Arts Center
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