Larry Thompson, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General, and his wife are donating 100 works by African-American artists to the Georgia Museum of Art. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Georgia Museum of Art to get major collection

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Larry Thompson, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General, and his wife are donating 100 works by African-American artists to the Georgia Museum of Art. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Larry Thompson, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General, and his wife are donating 100 works by African-American artists to the Georgia Museum of Art. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

ATLANTA (AP) – A couple who has amassed one of the nation’s major private collections of African-American art is donating 100 works to the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which first reported the plans, says Larry and Brenda Thompson also will fund a new curatorial position at the museum.

Museum board Chairman Carl Mullis called the couple’s contributions “transformative” for the official state art museum of Georgia and an amazing gift to the people of the state.

The donations include pieces by Hale Woodruff, Beauford Delaney, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Wadsworth Jarrell and Radcliffe Bailey.

Larry Thompson, a former U.S. deputy attorney general based in Atlanta and retired general counsel and secretary for PepsiCo, lived in Georgia for 30 years. His wife is a retired clinical school psychologist.

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Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, http://www.ajc.com

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Larry Thompson, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General, and his wife are donating 100 works by African-American artists to the Georgia Museum of Art. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Larry Thompson, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General, and his wife are donating 100 works by African-American artists to the Georgia Museum of Art. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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