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Recent acquisitions on display at the Morris Museum of Art
Gladys Nelson Smith, Frederick County Farmhands, undated. Oil on Masonite. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
AUGUSTA, GA
.- An exhibition of recent acquisitions, currently on display at the Morris Museum of Art, highlights a selection made from the more than two hundred works of art added to the permanent collection during 2020. The exhibition remains on display through June 6, 2021.
Recent Acquisitions celebrates the art of the South and the artists who created it, as well as the many generous donors whose gifts of art have broadened and deepened the museums already admired collection. Those donors include: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City; Bobbi Adams, a stalwart figure in South Carolinas art scene from her home and studio in Bishopville; the estate of Lucile Eleanor Caraker (through the intercession of Jean Michael, Cole Murphy, and Mary Ann Sears); Nelson Danish, longtime resident of
The Morris Museum of Art announces the death of artist Philip Morsberger
Jerry Siegel, Philip Morsberger, Georgia, 2006, printed 2012. Digital C-print. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Courtesy of the artist.
AUGUSTA, GA
.- The world lost a great artist with the death of Philip Morsberger on Sunday, January 3, 2021, of complications due to COVID-19.
Philip Morsberger was blessed with many giftshis extraordinary curiosity and creativity, both of which sustained his skills as an artist, were only the most obvious, so, naturally, they are the immediate focus whenever his name comes up. But his interests were protean and encompassing, said Kevin Grogan, director of the Morris Museum of Art. He could speak with the same knowledgeability and enthusiasm about the film scores of Alfred Newman (only the greatest film composer who ever lived!) and the novels of Charles Dickens, which he read over and over again with devotional rapture. Old movies, radio dramas from