Telfair Museums
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15/05/2026
Last night at the Opening Reception for Impressionism & Modernity: French and American Painting ✨
Guests gathered at the Jepson Center for an early look at the exhibition and a lecture by Mary Morton, Curator and Head of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art and a leading scholar of 19th-century European art.
Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate the opening and kick off a summer of Impressionism in Savannah 🎨
13/05/2026
Take a look at what our Studio Art Club’s been up to.
Members recently installed new work in the Morrison Community Gallery at the Jepson Center, showcasing the creativity that grows when artists come together to experiment, learn & share ideas.
Telfair supports 3 Studio Clubs: the Studio Art Club, the Life Drawing Club & the Plein Air Club
Join one of our Clubs to be part of the next show. 🎨
Learn more & join at TELFAIR.ORG 💫
12/05/2026
Last week, members of Telfair’s Director’s Circle set sail for Ossabaw Island on a mission of discovery 🛥️
We were struck not only by the island’s natural beauty, but by the stories that shape it. Through special tours led by Elizabeth DuBose and Erin Dunn, guests explored the history, culture, and creative legacy of this remarkable place.
Dunn’s exhibition Off the Coast of Paradise: Artists and Ossabaw Island, 1961 – Now traces the profound impact the island has had on generations of artists and thinkers. The show is co-curated by Beryl Gilothwest, the grandson of Ossabaw Island steward and champion, Sandy West.
See it at the Jepson Center through September 6 ✨
Stand in the Rotunda and you’re standing at the threshold of Telfair’s earliest vision.
Long before generations of exhibitions and expanding collections, this space held the museum’s first wave of collecting, works chosen in the earliest days of its history.
One central figure behind that formation was Carl Ludwig Brandt.
Artist, educator, and Telfair Museums’ first director, Brandt helped establish the tone of the collection from its earliest moments. He guided acquisitions, shaped direction, and even contributed works of his own, embedding his perspective directly into the museum’s foundation.
What we see today is still connected to those first decisions made 140 years ago.
📸:
-Carl Brandt, first director of Telfair Museums, 1863
-Carl Brandt before his painting of Iktinus.
-Carl Brandt before his painting of Albrecht Dürer.
🖼️:
-John Walz (1844-1922); Carl L. Brandt, 1891; Plaster; Telfair Museum of Art, TC14
-Carl Brandt (1831-1905); Mary Telfair, 1896; Oil on canvas; Museum purchase, 1896.1
-Carl Brandt (1831-1905); Dürer, c. 1892; Oil on canvas, Bequest of Carl L. Brandt, 1905.4.4
-Carl Brandt (1831-1905); Iktinus, c. 1891; Oil on canvas, Bequest of Carl L. Brandt, 1905.4.3
-Carl Brandt (1831-1905); Praxiteles, 1890; Oil on canvas; Bequest of Carl L. Brandt, 1905.4.4
-Carl Brandt (1831-1905); Apelles, 1888; Oil on canvas; Bequest of Carl L. Brandt, 1905.4.1
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Opening Hours
| Monday | 12:00 - 17:00 |
| Tuesday | 10:00 - 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 - 17:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 - 17:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 - 17:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 - 17:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 - 17:00 |
