Member Preview: Thinking Eye, Seeing Mind: The Medford and Loraine Johnston Collection
January 16, 2025 | 12–5 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art
Registration Required
Sol LeWitt (American, 1928-2007), Forms Derived from a Cube, 1985, gouache on paper, Collection of Medford and Loraine Johnston. © Sol LeWitt.
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Experience Thinking Eye, Seeing Mind: The Medford and Loraine Johnston Collection, an exhibition that showcases the collection of artist and Georgia State University professor Medford Johnston and his wife, Loraine. Members see it first and free! On Thursday, January 16, discover this new exhibition before it opens to the public.
In the mid-1970s, the Johnstons began collecting works by artists who were in the vanguard of contemporary art in the late 1960s and 1970s. They quickly narrowed their focus to drawings, primarily by artists working on the frontlines of abstraction in the mid-1960s. Today, they hold one of the finest collections of postwar American drawings and related objects of its kind, which is a promised gift to the museum and features works by artists including Sol LeWitt, Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, and Stanley Whitney, among many others. Learn more about this special exhibition.
Preregistration is required. Please enter the exhibition at your designated time to prevent overcrowding in the galleries.
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