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Category: Jill Hooper Archives - Gibbes Museum of Art
Artist Spotlight • Programs • Interns
Visiting Artists Coming to the Gibbes
With temperatures going up and scaffolding coming down, it is clear that the reopening of the Gibbes on May 28th is fast approaching. During my second semester as an intern at the Gibbes, I have been given the opportunity to see a lot of projects develop and cannot wait to see them come to life […]
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Jill Hooper: Contemporary Realist
Portraits have always played a significant role in the art of Charleston, and the Gibbes collection. The very first work of art accessioned into the collection was a portrait of Benjamin Smith by Jeremiah Theus, an important artist working during the mid eighteenth century. Fast forward some 250 years, and the portrait tradition remains very […]
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