|
Date |
Event |
|
1931 |
At the invitation
of President John Hope, Hale Woodruff joins the Atlanta University
faculty to initiate the art program for the Laboratory School. |
|
1933 |
Sculptor Elizabeth
Prophet joins Woodruff on faculty. Woodruff's art students become
affectionately known as the Out House School because of the privies
that punctuate their landscapes. |
|
1942 |
Harlem Renaissance
cultural spokesman Alain Locke gives inaugural address at the
first of 29 Atlanta University art annual series -- Exhibitions
of Paintings, Sculpture & Prints by Negro Artists of America. |
|
1950-52 |
Hale Woodruff
paints and installs the Art of the Negro murals for Trevor Arnett
Library. |
|
1959 |
Atlanta University
Exhibition Gallery is named for Catherine Hughes Waddell who
donates 81 pieces of contemporary American art to the collection. |
|
1968 |
Richard Long initiates
African Art collection which is augmented through gifts from
several donors: Jerome Furman, Rafe Henderson and Harvey Schreter. |
|
1969 |
David Levy contributes
works by Jacob Lawerence, Marquerite Zorach & John Marin
to the collection. Art collection s recieve gift of 16 paintings
by William H. Johnson. |
|
1970 |
The last Exhibition
of Paintings, Sculpture & Prints by Negro Artists of America
occurs. |
|
1985 |
Judge Irwin C.
Mollison collection is acquired, consisting of paintings and
prints by William McKnight Farrow, Archibald Motley and William
Eduard Scott. |
|
1994 |
Renovation of
former library facility, Trevor Arnett to rehouse collection
in reading room. |
|
1995 |
Bequest received
from James Baldwin fine art collection and gift from artist Larry
Walker. |
|
1996 |
The new gallery
reopens in collaboration with the Olympic Arts Festival under
its current name Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries. |
|
1997 |
Acquired gifts
of works by: Lonnie Graham, Bob Tomlinson and Charles Dawson |
|
1998 |
Radcliffe Bailey
creates and donates Date of Arrival in honor of
Hale Woodruff and lineage of professors.
Collection receives artist gift from Helen Cohen and strip quilt
from the Tysons, thereby initiating an African American quilt
collection. |
|
1999 |
Bill Hodges Galleries donate painting
by Norman Lewis. Galleries acquire works Willie Jinks, Yusef
Bell and Louis Delsarte |
|
2000 |
Kathryn and Ken Chenualt donate
portfolio of linocuts by Hale Woodruff: Selections from the Atlanta
Period 1931-1946. Coreen Jennings donates print by Wilmer Jennings.
Galleries acquire works by Sam Gilliam and Luftee Sabree. |
|
2001 |
The works of Mildred Thompson,
Stefanie Jackson, Coreen Simpson, Lynn Marshall
Linnemeier, Bongi Bengu, Eldizer Cortor, Diane Edison and Susan
Ross enter the collection. |
