Now we are heading homeward, with a stop at the Telfair Academy in Savannnah, GA, one of the three Telfair Museums. It houses period rooms and 19-20C American and European art.
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| Telfair Academy is located in the Telfair Mansion (1819, by William Jay in Neoclassical Regency style); this is the Drawing Room with a ten-light crystal chandelier (c 1810-1820) |
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| Eh! Eh! les autres, allons jouer!/Dutch Urchins Calling (c 1889, by Walter MacEwen); although they may look like they are cryig, the children are calling you to come play |
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| La Madrileñita/Young Girl from Madrid (1910, by Robert Henri) |
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| Classical artifact in an upper gallery |
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| View of Telfair Square |
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| Bird Girl (1936, by Sylvia Shaw Judson as a garden fountain) was used to hold bird seed in the Trosdale family plot in Bonaventure Cemetery; however, after being popularized in a photo on the cover of the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994, by John Berendt), the statue was removed to the museum for safekeeping |
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| Iron Gate at Bonaventure [Cemetery] (before 1942, by Emma Cheves Wilkins) |
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| Iron gate fragment and Victorian garden tiles (19C, from Bonaventure and Laurel Grove cemeteries in Savannah, GA) |
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| From Seabaord Docks (c 1953, by Anna Colquitt Hunter) depicts the Savannah waterfront from the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Docks on Hutchinson Island |
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| The Rotunda (1883–1886 addition to the mansion, by Detlef Lienau to transform the mansion into an art museum) |
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| La demoiselle d'honneur/The Maid of Honor (c 1901, by Jean-François Raffaëlli) |
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| Mary Telfair (1896, by Carl Ludwig Brandt, who was the first director of the Academy) portrays the woman whose bequest of her home and collection resulted in the Telfair Academy |
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| The Black Prince of Crécy (1888, by Julian Story) illustrates the dramatic end of the 1346 Battle of Crécy with Edward, Prince of Wales standing in respect by the lifeless King John of Bohemia, who insisted in participating with the French in the battle despite being blind |
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| The Dining Room |
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| Marketing (c 1943, by Robert Gwathmey, an American social realist painter) |
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| The Sculpture Gallery, located below the Rotunda |
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| The Hurrying River (not dated, by Robert Hogg Nisbet, who was born in Providence, RI and educated at the Rhode Island School of Design/RISD before teaching at Brown University) |
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| Laocoön and His Sons (early 1C CE and cast c 1883); in Greek legend, Laocoön was a seer and a priest of the god Apollo who tried to convince the Trojans not to accept the Horse from the Greeks and was thus punished by the Greek goddess, Athena, who sent serpents to kill him and his sons |
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| Snow-capped River (1911, by George Wesley Bellows) depicts the icy Hudson River and the Palisades of New Jersey |
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| Untitled (Rose Sleeves) (1911, by Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese-American better known for writing The Prophet) |
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| Octagon Room |
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| Shotgun Shanty (1999, by John M Mitchell) |
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| The cable-stayed Savannah Bridge (1991) |
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