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 The , 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Savannah, provides students with direct encounters with works by major artists, enriching the artistic, educational and cultural offerings available to the college and wider community.
This significant museum exhibition and study collection includes approximately 4,500 items. The Newton Collection of British and American Art is one of the finest in the Southeast. Among the paintings are portraits by renowned 17th-century court artists including Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Sir Peter Lely and Sir Godfrey Kneller, and 18th-century English and American artists including William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Ramsay, George Romney, John Smibert, Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Wright of Derby and Gilbert Stuart.
Assembled over many years by the late Earle W. Newton, Ph.D. (a founding editor of American Heritage magazine), the collection also boasts a sizable group of satirical prints by Hogarth, as well as a wide range of portrait prints, early 20th-century American prints, and additional prints by Rembrandt, Fuseli, Goya and others. Like the paintings, the prints cover three centuries and represent different printmaking techniques such as etchings, engravings and mezzotints. The rare books include early editions of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" and of Mark Twain's works. Maps depicting North America, Great Britain and the rest of the world are on view in three map galleries.
A major photography collection, the gift of Shirrel Rhoades, features almost 1,000 works by the most noted photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection includes iconic examples of landscape, narrative, fashion, still life and portrait photography by William Brady, Nadar, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Avedon, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Karl Lagerfeld, Eudora Welty and other celebrated masters.
A gift by Dr. Walter O. Evans has enriched the college's permanent collections with one of the finest collections of African-American art in the United States. The collection surveys the entire range of African-American art from the 19th century through the late 20th century and includes significant landscape paintings by Robert S. Duncanson and Edward Mitchell Bannister; sculptures by Mary Edmonia Lewis, Richard Hunt and Elizabeth Catlett; paintings by Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas; the iconic "Genesis Creation" series of paintings by Jacob Lawrence; and significant works by Romare Bearden. The pieces in the Evans donation will form the core collection of the Walter O. Evans Center for African-American Studies, under development by the college.
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