Overview of events that shaped the development of the Clark Atlanta Unviersity Art Museum and the Permanent Collection.
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 receives 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 the 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. |
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. |
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. |
2002-2014 |
The works of Sheila Pree Bright, Lucinda Bunnen, Wille Cole, Jennifer Mack, Thornton Dial, John Dowell, Robin Holder, Larry Rivers, Felrath Hines, Lev T. Mills, Eleanor Neal, Mario Petrirena, Robert Reid, John Riddle, Yanique Norman, Kevin Sipp, Phoenix Savage, and Mildred Thompson enter the collection. |
2015 |
The Board of CAU approves changing the name from Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries to Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. |