The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture is named in honor of C. Kermit “Buck” Ewing who initiated the art curriculum at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1948.
Begun in 1981, the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture is a professionally managed university gallery, funded jointly by the School of Art and the College of Architecture and Design. The Ewing Gallery has developed and maintained a permanent collection for the purpose of scholarly research and the enrichment of the University and regional communities.
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One Hundred Famous Views of Edo #56
Iris Garden at Horikiri (Horikiri no Hana-shobu)

Hiroshige is known as the “artist of rain, snow, and mist”. Born as Ando Tokutaro, he was to follow the career of his father as a fire watchman. In…
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Lore: What We Were Told | What We Saw | What We Tell Ourselves

Black Women of Print continues to expand on personal, familial, spiritual, and creative legacies. Lore: What We Were Told | What We Saw | What We Tell…
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Art from Europe and the Americas

This is the digital version of Liberated from Storage II: Art from Europe and the Americas on display at the Ewing...
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Sun Ra's Gift to Tomorrow

These portraits are part of a much larger collection. They are practitioners I connect to my Afrofuturism philosophy of future-based liberation and…
Jimmy and the Black Fist Fire This Time

They are practitioners I connect to my Afrofuturism philosophy of future-based liberation and freedom. These black and white images are works in…
B(9)rn

The Five-Percent Nation (aka) the Nation of Gods and Earths is a Black nationalist movement formed in 1964 by their founder Clarence 13X. Their…