The Morris Museum of Art, in Augusta, Georgia, is the first museum in the country dedicated to the regional art of the American South. Contrasting 19th-century portraits by William Edward West of Kentucky to modern paintings of Gullah life by Jonathan Green of South Carolina, this program makes it clear that the art of the South is as varied and diverse as its people. From antebellum portraiture to 20th-century folk painting and from American impressionism to narrative realism, this art has a power and presence that reveals the social, economic, and historical complexities of life in the American South.

One 28-minute video.