Share this page Mar 25, 2015 — May 31, 2015 The exhibition Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings from the Johnson Collection invites viewers to consider romanticism as it developed between 1810 and 1896 in the South. The exhibition, which includes paintings by Gustave Henry Mosler, Thomas Addison Richards, Joseph Rusling Meeker, Robert Walter Weir, and Thomas Sully, portrays the historical, social, and cultural influences that informed their and other artists’ work. The region’s natural beauty and scenes of daily life combine with heroic portrayals of soldiers and statesmen and depictions of impending change to create a complex, evocative look at the American South. The exhibition Romantic Spirits is accompanied by a publication of the same name, written by Estill Curtis Pennington. On view at the GCMA through May 31, the exhibition will then travel to the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, the Columbus (GA) Museum of Art, and the Knoxville Museum of Art. A private collection located in Spartanburg, the Johnson Collection surveys visual art in the American South from the late eighteenth century to the present. Back Andrew John Henry Way ((1826-1888)) Still Life with Fruit on Silver Salver 1880 oil on canvas view Enoch Lloyd Branson ((1853-1925)) Still Life with Peaches 1895 oil on canvas view Edwin D. White ((1817-1877)) Major Anderson Raising the Flag on the Morning of His Taking Possession of Fort Sumter, Dec. 27, 1860 1862 oil on canvas view William Charles Anthony Frerichs ((1829-1905)) Falls of Tamahaka, Cherokee County, North Carolina after 1855 oil on canvas view Gustave Henry Mosler ((1841-1920)) The Lost Cause 1868 oil on canvas view William Thompson Russell Smith ((1812-1896)) A Baptizing on the South Branch of the Potomac near Franklin, Va. 1844 oil on canvas view Thomas Satterwhite Noble ((1835-1907)) Forgiven circa 1872 oil on canvas view William Dickinson Washington ((1831-1870)) The Burial of Latane 1864 oil on canvas view Thomas Wightman ((1811-1888)) Tabletop Bounty circa 1850 oil on canvas view