Oglethorpe University Museum of Art

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On May 12, 1998, His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited Oglethorpe University Museum and viewed the exhibition,
The Mystical Arts of Tibet, Featuring Personal Sacred Objects of the Dalai Lama.

As a community appreciation for his contribution to international culture, Lloyd Nick received the honored Lexus Leader of the Arts Award in Atlanta for his service to the culture of Atlanta.

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HENRI MATISSE
A Celebration of French Poets & Poetry

Exhibition now on view through May 9, 2010

Oglethorpe University Museum of Art (OUMA) is proud to present Henri Matisse, A Celebration of French Poets & Poetry. This exhibition examines the poetic interest of one of the greatest French painters of the twentieth century, Henri Matisse. In 1930 when Matisse returned to France from an extended vacation to Tahiti, he was invited by the famous French publisher, Albert Skira, to illustrate selected poems entitled Poésies by the nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé. It was the first of several commissions to follow involving poetry and the graphic arts of etching and later lithography. In 1948, the last major commission and collaboration with Skira was Florilége des Amours de Ronsard an illustrated work consisting of 126 lithographs in sanguine, celebrating the love poems of Pierre Ronsard.

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Oglethorpe University Museum of Art features exhibitions of artworks
which are international, representational, often figurative and spiritual in nature.
It is our goal that the artworks shown provide
a meaningful experience for viewers, lifting their spirits and satisfying their souls.

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