Morris Museum of Art
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOUTHERN ART
The Morris Museum of Art houses the Center for the Study of Southern Art, a comprehensive reference library. Hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. Please call the library (706-828-3801) before you visit, to ensure that someone will be available to assist you.
Admission
The library is open to museum members with a valid membership card and museum visitors, on payment of admission fee (or display of a museum visitor's pin). Payment for admission to the library will also entitle the visitor to admission to the museum.
- Adults $5
- Seniors (65+) $3
- Students $3
- Military $3
Friends of the Library
Friends of the Library promotes the museum's educational mission by helping the library acquire books and other art research materials through an annual educational events, with all proceeds going to support the activities of the Center for the Study of Southern Art.
- Individual: $25
- Dual/Family and above: $40
LIBRARY COLLECTION
The Center for the Study of Southern Art's holdings include more than 13,000 volumes, including books, videos, CD-ROMs, and sound recordings. The library subscribes to many periodicals about art and the South and has several collections of personal papers. There is an in-house online catalog of the library's materials, which are noncirculating. The library participates in an informal library exchange program, which involves sending museum catalogs and publications to other museums and art libraries participating in the program.
Vertical Files
The vertical files, containing clippings and information from many types of sources, include more than 16,000 artist files, American museum files, subject and theme files, and files on the Morris Museum of Art.
- Special Collections
- Glascock Reynolds papers
- Robert P. Coggins papers
- Photographs of Artworks Associated with the Robert P. Coggins Collection
- Larry Connatser papers
- Elliott Daingerfield papers
- Henry Salem Hubbell papers
- Julian Lamar papers
- Lawrence Mazzanovich papers
- Murphy family papers (Christopher P. H. Murphy)
- Hattie Saussy papers
- Freeman and Cora Schoolcraft papers
- Sinking Creek Film Celebrations records and papers
- Isabel Whitney papers
- Xenia Zed paper
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