Telfair Museum of Art

Telfair Museum of Art

Infobox Museum
name = Telfair Museum of Art


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location = Savannah, Georgia
United States
type = Art museum
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website = [http://www.telfair.org/ www.telfair.org] The Telfair Museum of Art, located in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, is the South’s first public art museum. Founded through the bequest of Mary Telfair (1791-1875), a prominent local citizen, the museum opened in 1886 in the Telfair family’s renovated Regency-style mansion.

Today, the museum encompasses an extensive collection of over 4,500 American and European paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, housed in three buildings: the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (formerly the Telfair family home) and Owens-Thomas House, both National Historic Landmarks designed by British architect William Jay in the early nineteenth century; and the striking, contemporary Jepson Center for the Arts, designed by Moshe Safdie and completed in 2006.

External links

* [http://www.telfair.org/ www.telfair.org] Official web site
* [http://www.tfaoi.com/newsmu/nmus66.htm Telfair Museum page, Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc.]


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