George Beattie's Murals at GMOA

The Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, displays four murals painted by George Beattie in 1956 and removed from the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s building in Atlanta in 2011. The four oil paintings on Masonite, on exhibition from Aug. 1, 2012, to Jan. 7, 2013, address the state’s history of agriculture and feature American Indians, the founding of Georgia, and the role of enslaved persons in sugar and cotton production.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Instagram: Murals "open" to the public

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Paul Manoguerra on the George Beattie Murals at the Georgia Museum of Art

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"Slavery"

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White plantation owners on the Georgia Sea Islands, in the years following the Revolutionary War, made the coastal area an important prod...

"James Edward Oglethorpe"

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For the second mural depicting the history of Georgia agriculture, Beattie elected to show as a monumental figure dominating the left sid...

The controversy

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“As a human being, I am vehemently opposed to slavery, as anyone should be, but it was a significant epoch in our history; it would have bee...

"Cotton Gin"

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George Beattie (American, 1919-1997) Cotton Gin , 1956 Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Transfer from the Georgia Capito...

About the Ag murals

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In 1956, George Beattie was commissioned to create a series of mural paintings to decorate the lower and upper lobbies of the new building f...

Valerie Babb on the George Beattie Murals at the Georgia Museum of Art

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This video features Valerie Babb, a professor of English and director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Geo...

James C. Cobb on the George Beattie Murals at the Georgia Museum of Art

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This video features James C. Cobb, Spalding Distinguished Research Professor in UGA's history department and the leading scholar on Geor...
Monday, July 30, 2012

"American Indians" and Laura Weaver on the George Beattie Murals at the Georgia Museum of Art

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The museum has created four videos to educate the public, provide context for the images and discuss exactly why they are problematic. This ...

Instagram: Murals going up

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Links to past articles and commentary

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), April 28, 2009 AJC picture slideshow, April 28, 2009 NBC Atlanta 11, "'Not Desirable'...

George Beattie (American, 1919–1997)

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Born in Cleveland, Ohio, just after World War I, Beattie, the son of a diamond merchant and jewelry designer, studied at the Cleveland Insti...

Georgia Museum of Art at UGA to display controversial agriculture murals

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Quoting from the official press release : The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will soon display four controv...
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