Oglethorpe University Museum of Art

The Oglethorpe University Museum of Art (OUMA) presents three major and several smaller exhibitions each year, featuring art work which is international, representational, figurative, and spiritual in nature, reflecting the unique OUMA mission statement. OUMA is comprised of three spaces: The Shelley and Donald Rubin Gallery, the Skylight Gallery, and the Center Gallery. Lecture and concert series complement exhibitions on view.

The collection has a broad assemblage of drawings, prints and paintings from the various schools in the art of 19th and 20th century France including works by Eugène Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Constantin Guys, Eugène Delacroix, Julien Dupré and Henri Matisse among others. The museum’s permanent collection also holds unique concentration in the field of Japanese porcelain ranging from the 17th to early 20th century. The majority of works in our collection were assembled during the 1960s and 1970s by Dr. John Lesh Jacob. Carrie Lee Jacobs Henderson,  Dr. Jacob’s daughter and granddaughter of Oglethorpe University President Thornwell Jacobs, has donated more than 140 works of art to OUMA. As a result of such generosity, this museum is now the largest single repository of the Jacobs Collection.