Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC

Biography

The Gibbes Museum of Art, formerly known as the Gibbes Art Gallery, is an art museum in Charleston, South Carolina. Established as the Carolina Art Association in 1858, the museum moved into a new Beaux Arts building at 135 Meeting Street, in the Charleston Historic District, in 1905. The Gibbes houses a premier collection of over 10,000 works of fine art, principally American works, many with a connection to Charleston or the South.

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In a city steeped in culture and lineage, one name stands out above all the others. With a single stroke of his pen, Mr. James Shoolbred Gibbes guaranteed that Charleston would have a premier art museum, and for over one hundred years his name has been synonymous with the best that the Charleston visual arts has to offer.

The Gibbes Museum of Art preserves and promotes the art of Charleston and the American South by collecting, researching, maintaining and publicizing its collections, creating innovative exhibitions, and developing interpretive and educational programs.

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