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アセンズ (ジョージア州) / アメリカ合衆国

アセンズ（英: Athens）は、アメリカ合衆国ジョージア州の北東部に位置する都市であり、クラーク郡とともに統合市郡を形成している。ジョージア大学がある大学町であり、この大学がアセンズの創設とその後の成長に深く関わってきた。1991年、前年の住民投票結果に従い、当初の市としての認可を棄てて、クラーク郡と共に統合市郡を形成した。現在は集合的にアセンズ＝クラーク郡と呼ばれる。2010年の国勢調査で、この統合市郡の人口は115,452人となっており、2000年の100,266人に比べて15％増加した（ウィンタービル市全部とボガート市の一部を除く）。アセンズ＝クラーク郡としてジョージア州では5番目の都市であり、アセンズ＝クラーク郡都市圏の中心都市である。都市圏人口は2008年で189,264人である。

Georgia Museum of Art

アセンズ (ジョージア州) / アメリカ合衆国

The Georgia Museum of Art is an art museum in Athens, Georgia, United States, associated with the University of Georgia . The museum is both an academic museum and, since 1982, the official art museum of the state of Georgia. The permanent collection consists of American paintings, primarily 19th- and 20th-century; American, European and Asian works on paper; the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance paintings; growing collections of southern decorative arts and Asian art; and a strong collection of works by African American artists. It numbers more than 12,000 works, growing every year.The Georgia Museum opened on UGA's North Campus in 1948, in a building that now houses the university president's office, then moved to the Performing and Visual Arts Complex on UGA's East Campus in 1996. In 2011, it completed an extensive expansion and remodeling of its building, paid for entirely with externally raised funds and designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects, New York, that has allowed it to display its permanent collection continually. The museum offers programming for patrons of all ages, from child to senior citizen, as well as free admission to the public for all exhibitions. It organizes its own exhibitions in-house, creates traveling exhibitions for other museums and galleries and plays host to traveling exhibitions from around the country and the globe. The museum strives, most of all, to fulfill the legacy of its founder, Alfred Heber Holbrook, and provide art for everyone, removing barriers to accessibility and seeking to foster an open, educational and inspiring environment for students, scholars and the general public. The foundation of the museum's collection, the Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, a collection of 100 American paintings, was donated to UGA in 1945 by Holbrook in memory of his first wife. Included in this collection are works by such luminaries as Frank Weston Benson, William Merritt Chase, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence, and Theodore Robinson.