AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.-The Morris Museum of Art presents today Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty among Artists of the Thirties, on view through October 30, 2005. This exhibition presents Eudora Welty's photographs of the 1930s together with paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs by notable American artists of the era—offering comparisons between Welty's artistic motivation and other visual interpretations of the times.

Welty once said her purpose in photography, as in fiction, was “...not to point the finger in judgment but to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.”

More than just a chronicle, Eudora Welty's photographs, like her celebrated story writing, reveal the courage and dignity of the American people during this pivotal era.

The Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty among the Artists of the Thirties tour was organized by International Arts & Artists, Inc., Washington, D.C. The exhibition is sponsored in part at the Morris Museum of Art by Elliott Davis, LLC, Advisors-CPAs-Consultants.