MOCA GA acquires new art stash from High
More than 700 publications as well as 21 works by 14 Georgia artists have been transferred to MOCA GA from the High Museum
- Joeff Davis
- Annette Cone-Skelton in the archives at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
In 2008, CL columnist/critic Cinque Hicks wrote about MOCA GA's efforts to preserve the visual arts culture of the Southeast. The archives and permanent collection include lots of treasures including an early Rocio Rodriguez painting, a Kevin Cole sculpture, and the personal archives of "Atlanta's '80s and '90s muckraking art collective TABOO."
Today the High Museum announced that it has transferred more than 700 duplicate publications as well as 21 works by 14 Georgia artists to MOCA GA's new reference library that's currently under development.
From the press release:
The publications focus on modern and contemporary art and art from around the world. Scholars, curators, art historians, educators, artists and the public will have access to this new library. ...
All works were chosen by Annette Cone-Skelton in conjunction with High. The transferred works are:
* Shirley Bolton, Silent Strings (Jazz Series), 1974
* Santo Bruno, Small Function, 1977
* Larry Connaster, Untitled, 1969
* Herbert Lee Creecy, Jr., Study, 1967, and Study, 1967
* Lamar Dodd, Wind on the Coast, 1941; Sketch for Wind on the Coast, 1944; The White Door, 1953;
and At the Foot of the Blackland
* James McRae, Untitled, 1966
* Charles Mitchell, Prometheus Bringing Fire Down to the Earth
* Jarvin Parks, Homage to the Four Arts
* Robert Stockton Rogers, A View of Taxco, Mexico
* Joseph Schwarz, Funeral
* Benjamin Edgar Shute, Compote with Grapes
* Howard Thomas, Reidsville, 1943; White House and Chickens, 1946; Get with Red, 1962
* Gladene Tucker, Untitled, 1961
* Ferdinand Warren, Haystacks and Corn; Garden Bouquet, 1952