COUPLE DONATES COLLECTION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WORKS TO GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART

Larry and Brenda Thompson will be donating one hundred works of African-American art, including pieces by Hale Woodruff, Beauford Delaney, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Radcliffe Bailey, to the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the couple will also be funding a new curatorial position at the institution. The museum’s board chairman Carl Mullis called the Thompsons’ donation “transformative,” adding that it was “truly an amazing gift to the museum . . . and to all the people of Georgia.”