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Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier, Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels
This exhibit of 68 oil paintings by landscape artist Philip Juras offers a glimpse of the pre-settlement southern wilderness as William Bartram described it. Juras combines direct observation with historical, scientific, and natural history research to depict, and in some cases re-create, landscapes as they appeared in the 1770s. The paintings bring the long lost southern frontier to 21st century eyes in much the same way that 19th century American landscape painters like Bierstadt and Moran brought the western frontier to the consciousness of the industrializing nation. The exhibit will acquaint the viewer with many of the important and imperiled ecosystems that remain in the South today – remnant natural communities that would greatly benefit from wider public awareness.
The exhibit book (128 pages) published in conjunction with the exhibit features more than 60 reproductions of Juras’s paintings along with essays by Juras, Dorinda Dallmeyer of the University of Georgia, Holly Koons McCullough of the Telfair, and lauded poet and environmental advocate Janisse Ray. The essays place the work in the context of Bartram’s legacy and the American landscape movement, and reveal the ecology and history underlying the work. It was published in January 2011 by the Telfair Museum and distributed by the University of Georgia Press.
Several of the paintings in the exhibit are also included in Bartram’s Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South, an anthology of essays by southern nature writers inspired by Bartram, published by Mercer University Press September, 2010.
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| More about the exhibit: Art Daily, Augusta Chronicle, Savannah
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The following four sections show the grouping of the paintings as presented in the exhibit book and in the exhibits.
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Part I: Uplands
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View from Wesser Bald
Nantahala National Forest,
North Carolina
Oil on Canvas
30" x 42"
July, 2010
Private Collection
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The Shining Rocks
Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina
Oil on Canvas
40 x 80
December, 2008
Private Collection |
Dark Prong Forest
Pisgah National Forest,
North Carolina
Oil on Canvas
30 " x 42 "
October, 2007
Private Collection
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Dark Prong Boulders
Pisgah NF, NC
Oil on Paper
6" x 7.5"
June 6, 2006
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Martin Creek (Falling Creek)
Rabun County, GA
Oil on Canvas
24" x 18"
October, 2010
Private Collection |
Oconee Old Field
near Oconee Station, SC
Oil on Canvas
12" x 18"
June 11, 2009
Private Collection
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Keowee Valley c. 1775
Pickens County, South Carolina
Oil on Canvas
18" x 28"
October, 2009
Private Collection |
Anthony Shoals
Broad River, Georgia
Oil on Canvas
40 x 66
August, 2009
Collection of the Telfair Museums |
Anthony Shoals, Afternoon
Broad River, GA
Oil on Canvas
14" x 18"
April 30, 2009
Private Collection |
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Rock and Shoals Opening
Clarke County, GA
Oil on Canvas
24" x 18"
November, 2007
Private Collection |
Vernal
Pools at Heggie's Rock
Columbia County, GA
Oil on Canvas
48"x66"
Finished December 2001
Private Collection
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Cedar Grove
Rock and Shoals, Clarke County, GA
Oil on Canvas
24" x 36"
October, 2007
Private Collection
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Part II: A Grassy Coastal Plain
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Flame Front 4
Moody Forest Preserve
Appling County, GA
Oil on Paper
6.5
" x 8"
May 20, 2010
Private Collection |
Flame Front 3
Moody Forest Preserve
Appling County, GA
Oil on Paper
6.5
" x 8"
May 20, 2010
Private Collection |
Flame Front 2
Moody Forest Preserve
Appling County, GA
Oil on Paper
6.5
" x 8"
May 20, 2010
Private Collection |
Flame Front 1
Moody Forest Preserve
Appling County, GA
Oil on Paper
6.5
" x 8"
May 20, 2010
Private Collection |
One Day After Fire
Moody Forest Preserve
Appling County, GA
Oil on Canvas
14
" x 18"
May 20, 2010
Private Collection
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White-Topped Pitcher Plants
Splinter Hill Bog Preserve, Alabama
Oil on Canvas
18" x 24"
October, 2009
Private Collection |
Prairie Opening
Chickasaw WMA, Mississippi
Oil on Paper
6" x 7.5"
August 28, 2009 |
Black Belt Prairie c. 1775
Montgomery County, Alabama
Oil on Canvas
24" x 32"
November, 2009 |
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Greenwood Plantation
Thomasville, GA
Oil on Canvas
24" x 18"
November, 2007
Private Collection
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Longleaf
Greenwood Plantation Thomasville, GA
Oil on Canvas
40 " x 54 "
December, 2005
Private Collection |
Longleaf Glade
Greenwood Plantation,
Thomasville, GA
Oil on Canvas
40 x 60
November, 2008
Private Collection |
Light Rain in the Big Woods
Greenwood Plantation
Thomasville, GA
Oil on Canvas
16 " x 20 "
October 12, 2005
Private Collection |
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Dewy Witchgrass
Apalachicola National Forest, Florida
Oil on Canvas
40" x 66"
July, 2010 |
Small Cypress Dome
Apachicola NF, FL
Oil on Canvas
16
" x 20"
May 31, 2010
Private Collection |
Savanna in Morning
Light
Apalachicola NF, FL
Oil on Paper
10"x10"
May, 2001
Private Collection |
Savanna
in Early Morning Fog
Apalachicola NF, FL
Oil on Paper
10"x10"
May, 2001
Private Collection |
Apalachicola Savanna
Apalachicola NF, FL
Oil on Canvas
18 " x 26"
December, 2007
Private Collection
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Part IV: Wetlands and Waterways
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Hopkins Prairie
Ocala NF, FL
14" x 18"
June 26, 2009
Private Collection |
Alachua Savanna c. 1774
Alachua County, Florida
Oil on Canvas
18" x 26"
March, 2010
Private Collection |
Paynes Prairie
Alachua County, FL
Oil on Paper
10" x 10"
June 27, 2009 |
Spring Basin
Manatee Springs SP, FL
Oil on Paper
6" x 7.5"
May 30, 2010 |
Spring Run
Manatee Springs State Park, Florida
Oil on Canvas
24" x 32"
October, 2010
Private Collection |
Spring Run (Study)
Manatee Springs State Park, Florida
Oil on Paper
8" x 10"
May 30, 2010
Private Collection |
Fern Hammock Springs
Juniper Springs, Ocala NF, FL
Oil on Paper
10" x 10"
June 26, 2009
Private Collection |
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Sulfur Spring at Stagger Mud Lake
Ocala National Forest, FL
Oil on Paper
8" x 10"
October 23, 2009
Private Collection |
Swamp Forest on Stagger Mud Lake
Ocala National Forest, FL
Oil on Canvas
18" x 20"
October, 2010
Private Collection |
Steady Wind on the
Saint Johns River
Bayard Conservation Area, Florida
18" x 24"
November, 2009
Private Collection |
Changing Conditions, Altamaha River,
Wayne County, Georgia
Oil on Canvas
24" x 36"
September, 2009
Private Collection |
Old Growth Cypress in the Rain
Altamaha River, Long County, Georgia
Oil on Canvas
18" x 24"
September, 2009 |
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Old White River Channel
Montgomery Island, Arkansas
Oil on Paper
6" x 7.5"
June 22, 2010
Private Collection |
Mississippi River
Grand Gulf, Mississippi
Oil on Paper
6" x 8"
August 27, 2009 |
White Cliffs of the Mississippi
East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Oil on Canvas
36" x 54"
July, 2010
Private Collection |
Flooded Willows
Montgomery Island, AR
Oil on Paper
10
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June 22, 2010 |
Delta Bayou
Delta National Forest, Mississippi
Oil on Canvas
18" x 26"
October, 2010
Private Collection |
Canebrake on the Mississippi
Montgomery Island, AR
Oil on Canvas
18" x 26"
October, 2010 |
Edge of a Canebrake
Oil on Paper
8 " x 10"
March, 2008
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Part III: The Coasts
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North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain
Fontainebleau State Park, Louisiana
Oil on Canvas
24" x 36"
October, 2009
Private Collection |
Lake Pontchartrain Marshes
Fontainebleau SP, LA
Oil on P
aper
10" x 10"
August 26, 2009
Private Collection |
Jones Narrows 2
Wormsloe Plantation,
Isle of Hope, GA
Oil on Paper
6" x 8"
May 1, 2010 |
Jones Narrows 1
Wormsloe Plantation,
Isle of Hope, GA
Oil on Paper
6" x 8"
April 30, 2010 |
Jones Narrows
Isle of Hope (Wormsloe), Georgia
Oil on Canvas
40" x 54"
July, 2010
Private Collection |
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Glasswort
Edisto Island, SC
Oil on Canvas
24" x 32 "
March, 2006
Private Collection
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View toward Jones Narrows
Wormsloe Plantation,
Isle of Hope, GA
Oil on Canvas
14
" x 18"
April 30, 2010
Private Collection
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Pellicer Creek
Faver-Dykes SP, FL
Oil on Canvas
14
" x 18"
May 29, 2010 |
Interdune
Harbor Island, South Carolina
Oil on Canvas
40 x 54
January, 2009 |
Hunting
Island Dunes
Hunting Island State Park, SC
Oil on Canvas
11.75 "
x 15"
May 27, 2004
Private Collection |
Gulf Dunes Study
Bonsecour NWR, AL
Oil on Paper
10
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June17, 2010 |
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Room 1 of 4 at the Telfair Museum, February, 2011.
Room 1 of 2 at the Morris Museum, May 2011.
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