Exhibitions 2007
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Philip
Morsberger: The Sixties
September 12 - January 20, 2007, Jepson Center for the Arts
The
Telfair Museum of Art is pleased to present Philip Morsberger:
The Sixties from September 12, 2007 - January 20, 2008,
at the Jepson Center for the Arts. Organized by the Telfair Museum
of Art, the exhibition features work from a pivotal decade of the
artist’s early career, drawn from the collection of the Butler
Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.
Augusta-based
artist Philip Morsberger is a prolific and respected painter who
has held influential teaching positions in America and Britain for
over 40 years. During Morsberger’s long career, his style
has evolved through a number of phases, alternately characterized
by elements of realism, abstract expressionism, and pop art.
 Morsberger’s
works from the
1960s, the focus of this exhibition, address volatile issues including
the assassination of President Kennedy, the conflict in Vietnam,
and the Civil Rights struggle. Produced during his tenure as an
instructor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, these powerful images
serve as vivid records of a turbulent period in American history
and demonstrate Morsberger’s intellectual depth and technical
talent.
Morsberger
studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and received his
B.F.A. from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. The artist has
long been associated with Oxford University in England, where he
studied in the mid-50s and where he served as Ruskin Master of Drawing
from 1971 to 1984, the only American ever to hold that chair. He
recently completed an engagement as the William S. Morris Eminent
Scholar in Art (Artist in Residence) at Augusta State University,
and continues to maintain his primary studio in Augusta. His work
is held in major collections on both sides of the Atlantic, including
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Butler Institute of
American Art, the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, and the Ashmolean
Museum in Oxford, England.
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