ANNUAL REPORT - Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art

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ART AND GARDEN HIGHLIGHTS October 1, 2007 September 30, 2008 In the Gardens SCARECROWS! September 29 - November 4, 2007 Big and small, frightening and friendly, silly and serious -eek and had lost his head; some were frazzled, like The Juggler, a many-armed mom scarecrow; and some were funny, like Hen Pecked, the giant bride towering over her tiny husband-to-be. Sponsored by Southeast Waffles and Fifth Third Bank HAPPILY EVER AFTER May 24 - September 7, 2008 Remember your favorite classic fairy tale? So many of our most beloved tales take place in the the gardens at Cheekwood! A mixture of fairy tales, the installation consisted of artfully designed Stories included: Rumpelstiltskin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Sword and the Stone, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Red Riding Hood, Princess and the Pea, Three Little Pigs, and Rapunzel. Sponsored by Bridgestone Firestone Trust Fund, Bridgestone Americas, Publix Supermarket Charities, Publix Supermarkets, Inc., Nashville Parent, SunTrust, and The Tennessean 6 THE BOTANICAL GARDEN There is always something happening in Cheekwood's botanical gardens. From the Robertson Ellis Color Garden bursting with season displays of colorful annuals, to the formal Martin Boxwood Garden, visitors can walk through the 55 acres and discover different styles and periods of gardens and study a wide selection of plants that can be grown in Middle Tennessee. Martin Boxwood Garden Robertson Ellis Color Garden Carell Dogwood Garden Herb Study Garden Japanese Garden, Shomu-en Wills Perennial Garden Turner Seasons Garden Burr Terrace Garden Robinson Family Water Garden Howe Wildflower Garden
In the Museum THE MATILDA GEDDINGS GRAY FOUNDATION COLLECTION OF F Ongoing Cheekwood's Museum of Art houses the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection, Collection have been exhibited worldwide. The Collection includes 57 rare pieces highlighted by three Russian Imperial Easter eggs, and a number of important functional items, fantasy items, and floral works. WILLIAM EDMONDSON: THE HAND AND THE SPIRIT Ongoing This outstanding exhibition features selections from Cheekwood's collection, the largest public collection of William Edmondson's work. Born to former slaves on a plantation south of Nashville, Edmondson (1874-1951) taught himself to carve tombstones and became one of the most celebrated African-American sculptors of the 20th Century. A GENIUS FOR PLACE: AMERICAN LANDSCAPES OF THE COUNTRY PLACE ERA October 6 - December 30, 2007 Historian and author Robin Karson and photographer Carol Betsch collaborated on six imaginative landscape designs, complimenting the design of -by-24 inch black-and-white photographs and seven 42-by-52-inch color Iris prints. Presented by Wachovia A CENTURY ON PAPER June 28 - September 21, 2008 Since Cheekwood was founded, the museum has amassed an excellent collection of twentieth-century works on paper. The exhibition surveyed the result of many wonderful gift purchases for the permanent collection. While works by many of the most recognized twentieth-century masters were included, it also provided excellent examples of prints, drawings, and watercolors by either lesser-known or regionally recognized artists. Works ranged from American Realists such as Reginald March and Isabel Bishop to early Modernist like John Marin and Stuart Davis to Edward Ruscha and David Hockney. Sponsored by First Tennessee Thomas Hart Benton, American, 1889-1975, The Boy, 1949. Ink and Watercolor on Paper, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Hill 7 Carol Betsch, Stan Hywet, Akron, Ohio, Design by Warren Manning, 1916 Courtesy of the American Library of Landscape History PAINTERS OF AMERICAN LIFE: THE EIGHT exhibition that travelled to Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia (December 8, 2007 February 17, 2008); Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee (March 7 June 10, 2008); Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia (September 17 November 20, 2008); Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina (December 19, 2008 March 22, 2009); Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL, (April 10 June 21, 2009).
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