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Exhibitions • Permanent Collection
Face Lift: Caption This!Week Seven: The TaTa Sisterhood
In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness month, we propose this pair of nudes from our Face Lift exhibition: on the left, Iaida, by Isabel Cohen Doud and on the […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Six: I Spy
In these self portraits, the artists turn the tables and become their own subjects. Let the unusual and somewhat comedic compositions inspire you to “Caption This!” Read the full terms […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Five: Me and My Shadow
Week Five’s comparison shows two very different styles of portraiture, but the juxtaposition of the images makes it appear that there’s a conversation going on. Tell us what you think […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Four: There was a Little Girl…
There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Three: Charles and Louis Manigault—Father and Son
This week’s portraits depict a nineteenth-century father and son duo. Charles Izard Manigault and his son Louis Manigault shared an appreciation for art, but chose to explore their interests along different […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Two: Jimmie Daniels—Double Vision
These two portraits of performer Jimmie Daniels are the second set in our Face Lift: Caption This! contest. How do these two portraits—the photograph by George Platt Lynes and the […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week One: Ms. Johnson and Colonel Elliott
In conjunction with our Face Lift exhibition, we are launching a caption writing contest and we need your participation! Each week of the exhibition, curator Sara Arnold will present a set of […]
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Back to School Tools at the Gibbes
School Year 2010–2011 is here! Most teachers and students return to their classrooms the week of August 16th for another year of enlightenment. The Gibbes Museum is excited, as always, […]
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Curatorial Perspective: An Upcoming Exhibition Takes Shape
Manifest, 2010, by Stacy Lynn Waddell (American, b. 1966) Over the next few weeks, the Gibbes collections and curatorial staff will be hard at work in preparation for the opening […]
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Sharing a Love of Art History with the Next Generation
My name is Katie Gephart, and this summer I interned in the museum’s Education and Outreach department. In the fall, I’ll start my senior year at Washington and Lee University […]
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