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You might be interested to know that famous as the Charleston’s only visual arts museum, Gibbes Museum of Art is a symbol of the artistic presence in Charleston and trip along with the promptcharters.com
You will come to know that this museum was first opened to the public on April 11, 1905, and in 2005 it celebrated a century of exhibitions.
With the museum’s extensive history and the breathtaking exhibits that come through its doors, Gibbes Museum of Art has an aura of regalness that should not be surpassed.
Past Exhibitions of the museum
2014
Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South from the Johnson Collection
January 17 – March 23, 2014
John Westmark: Narratives
April 4 – August 3, 2014
The Great Wave: Japonisme in Charleston
January 17 – March 23, 2014
Beyond the Darkroom: Photography in the 21st Century
April 4 – August 3, 2014
2013
Photography and the American Civil War
September 27 – January 5
Vibrant Vision: The Collection of Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman
January 11–April 21, 2013
People’s Choice: A Community-Curated Exhibition
May 3 – September 15, 2013
Witness to History: Civil Rights Era Photographs by James Karales
January 11 – May 12, 2013
The Spoleto Watercolors of Stephen Mueller and Carl Palazzolo: From the Collection of David and Carol Rawle
May 24 – September 15, 2013
The Rice Plantation Series: Watercolors by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith
February–July 14, 2013
The Fine Art of Printmaking
Ongoing exhibition
2012
Jill Hooper: Contemporary Realist
January 20 – April 22, 2012
The Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston
January 20 – April 22, 2012
Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock and Roll Photography
September 21–December 30, 2012
Willard Hirsch: Charleston’s Sculptor
September 21, 2012–December 30
Mary Whyte: Working South
May 4 – September 9, 2012
Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens of the South
May 4 – September 9, 2012
SC Doodle 4 Google : 2012 Finalists
July 3 – August 17, 2012
2011
The Creative Spirit: Vernacular Art from the Gadsden Arts Center Permanent Collection
July 22 – October 16, 2011
In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans
July 22 – October 16, 2011
Breaking Down Barriers: 300 Years of Women in Art
October 28, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Camera Works: Masters in Photography
October 28, 2011 – January 8, 2012
A Soldier’s View of Civil War Charleston
April 8 – July 10, 2011
Stephen Marc: Passage on the Underground Railroad
April 8 – July 10, 2011
Anna Heyward Taylor: World Traveler
January 14 – June 25, 2011
2010
Modern Masters from the Ferguson Collection
April 30 – August 22, 2010
JoAnn Verburg: Interruptions
May 28 – August 22, 2010
Art of Our Time: Selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University
December 17, 2010 – March 27, 2011
Lure of the Lowcountry
January 22 – April 18, 2010
Face Lift: The Power of Portraits
September 3 – December 5, 2010
J. Henry Fair: Industrial Scars
December 17, 2010 – March 27, 2011
Whistler’s Travels
January 22 – May 16, 2010
Stacy Lynn Waddell: The Evidence of Things Unseen
September 3 – December 5, 2010
2009
Prop Master: An Installation by Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page
April 3 – July 19, 2009
Jeff Whetstone: Post-Pleistocene
April 3 – July 19, 2009
Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum
July 31 – October 11, 2009
Brian Rutenberg: Tidesong
October 23, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Daufuskie Island: Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
October 23, 2009 – January 10, 2010
2008
Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art
May 9 – August 3, 2008
The Future is on the Table
September 12 – November 2, 2008
Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats Along the Way: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Baeder
March 22 – April 27, 2008
Seeking
March 1 – August 31, 2008
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
August 29 – November 30, 2008
Painters of American Life: The Eight
December 19, 2008 – March 22, 2009
The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection
December 19, 2008 – March 22, 2009
Printmaking
November 14, 2008 – August 16, 2009
2007
Rodin: In His Own Words, Selections from the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
May 25, 2007 – August 12, 2007
Lorna Simpson
September 7 – December 2, 2007
William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961 – 2005
December 21, 2007 – March 16, 2008
Southern Masterpieces: Charleston before 1835
February 9, 2007 – April 29, 2007
Like Tears in Rain
May 4 – August 12, 2007
Now!
September 7 – December 2, 2007
“A Lonely Soul”: The Art of Edward Jennings
April 27, 2007 – July 22, 2007
The Charleston Story
Ongoing Exhibition
Otto Neumann: Modern Expressions
April 27, 2007 – July 22, 2007
The Charleston Renaissance: An Artistic Reawakening
August 3, 2007 – February 17, 2008
Hands On!
Ongoing Exhibition
Japonisme in Charleston
June 23, 2006 – August 1, 2007
America at Work: WPA Prints from the Gibbes Collection
August 25, 2006 – April 15, 2007
A Souvenir of Charleston: The Photographs of George W. Johnson
September 8, 2006 – April 15, 2007
Grandeur Saved: Photographs of the Aiken-Rhett House by Michael Eastman
January 12, 2007 – May 13, 2007
2006
Painters in Paradise: The Masterworks Bermuda Collection
May 12, 2006 – August 6, 2006
“All Served Up in India China”: Chinese Porcelain in the Lowcountry, 1700 – 1860
March 11, 2006 – June 25, 2006
Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur
March 11, 2006 – June 25, 2006
Dressing Up/Dressing Down: The Art in Japanese Country Textiles
February 10, 2006 – June 18, 2006
The Flowering Amazon: Margaret Mee Paintings from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
January 13, 2006 – April 23, 2006
Ernest Hemingway and Walker Evans: Three Weeks in Cuba, 1933
December 23, 2005 – February 19, 2006
Leaving the Lowcountry: Charleston Renaissance Artists on the Road
December 16, 2005 – May 7, 2006
Whistler Etchings from the Vreede Collection
May 26, 2006 – August 27, 2006
Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
October 6, 2006 – January 14, 2007
Babar’s Museum of Art
September 1, 2006 – December 31, 2006
Wolf Kahn’s Barns
July 16, 2006 – October 1, 2006
Romantic Landscapes: British Watercolors from the Gibbes Collection
July 7, 2006 – September 24, 2006
Edward Hopper in Charleston
May 26, 2006 – August 13, 2006
2005
Passion for Drawing: Poussin to Cézanne, Works from the Prat Collection
October 8, 2005 – December 4, 2005
A Hard Day’s Work
September 30, 2005 – January 29, 2006
100 Years at the Gibbes
September 9, 2005 – January 1, 2006
Carolina in Focus: Photographs from the Craft Collection
August 12, 2005 – December 4, 2005
Cold Winter Scenes for Hot Summer Days
June 17, 2005 – September 25, 2005
An American Impressionist: The Art and Life of Alson Skinner Clark
May 27, 2005 – August 7, 2005
Beyond Representation: Abstract Art in the South
May 6, 2005 – August 14, 2005
Thomas Hart Benton and Iconic Images of the South
April 15, 2005 – July 17, 2005
Unspoken Spaces: Inside and Outside the Boundaries of Class, Race and Space
February 5, 2005 – May 8, 2005
Encircling Spaces: An Installation by Janet Orselli
January 29, 2005 – May 8, 2005
Un dwelled: Photographs of Endangered Southern Architecture
January 21, 2005 – April 17, 2005
2004
Birds, Beasts and Bugs
December 17, 2004 – June 12, 2005
The Lowcountry Landscapes of Horace Day
November 19, 2004 – March 20, 2005
Panorama of the American Landscape
October 10, 2004 – January 9, 2005
Framing a Vision: Landscapes by Linda Fantuzzo and Manning Williams
October 10, 2004 – January 2, 2005
The Big Picture: Grand Paintings at the Gibbes
September 24, 2004 – January 2, 2005
Whistler and Japonisme: Etchings from the Vreede Collection
July 13, 2004 – December 5, 2004
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith: A Commitment to Conservation
July 13, 2004 – October 24, 2004
Rhythms of Life: The Art of Jonathan Green
May 28, 2004 – August 29, 2004
Myths and Metaphors: The Art of Leo Twiggs
May 18, 2004 – August 8, 2004
Places & Spaces: Landscape and Genre Scenes in the South
January 6, 2004 – August 29, 2004
Selections from In Response to Place: Photographs from the Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places
January 15, 2004 – April 25, 2004
2003
Transcending Time and Place: Figure Groupings in Nature by Ando Hiroshige and Barbara Duvall
December 9, 2003 – June 27, 2004
In Love with the Lowcountry: Photographs by Tom Blagden, Jr. and Michael Johnson
November 18, 2003 – June 20, 2004
The Human Comedy: Portraits by Red Grooms
September 19, 2003 – December 14, 2003
Face Lift: Fresh Encounters with Portraiture at the Gibbes Museum of Art
August 19, 2003 – December 21, 2003
Works By Warhol: From the Cochran Collection
July 29, 2003 – December 7, 2003
Hours of operation
Tuesday – Saturday: 10am-5pm Sunday: 1pm-5pm Closed: Monday, National Holidays
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