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Collections Highlights Catalogue, 1875-2005

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A back-lawn scene with a woman seated in a wicker chair sewing at the left foreground, while a …

Telfair’s collection consists of over 6,300 American and European paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts items dating primarily from the 19th century through the present day. With particular strengths in American portraiture, American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, and American and English silver, the collection includes works by Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Sully, Gari Melchers, Childe Hassam, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Robert Henri, George Bellows, William Zorach, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Sam Gilliam, and many others. Highlights also include items from the museum’s distinguished collection of furniture and decorative arts, portions of which have been housed at the Telfair Academy and Owens-Thomas House since the early 19th century.

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A painting of a woman in a striped dress seated at a table with a large terracotta jug beside h…
Mary Hoover Aiken
1933
A mahogany secretary with two glass cupboard doors opening to an interior with adjustable shelv…
Unknown
c. 1815-1820
Three-quarter length portrait of a dark-haired woman reclining on blue cushions wearing a grey …
Edmond Aman-Jean
1897
An assemblage centered on a photograph of a bird's eye perspective of a stone figural sculpture…
Radcliffe Bailey
1999
Profile of a woman facing the proper right draped in a loose-fitting white garment.
Reginald Barber
1888
An idyllic landscape with a small river in the center flowing passed a rocky promontory jutting…
George Barret
before 1763
One of a pair of Récamier sofas or Grecian sofas with a partial back terminating in a scroll cr…
Unknown
c. 1820
A round mahogany table with a hexagonal pedestal with a carved foliate motif and a tripod base …
Unknown
c. 1820 -1830
One of fifteen side chairs with a concave rectangular crest rail above a splat with a central m…
Joseph B. Barry
c. 1815-1825
A view of Central Park from a high vantage point with buildings on the left and a road running …
Gifford Beal
c. 1929 - 1931
A woman stands on a hill overlooking a bay with two boats under sail.
Gifford Beal
1922