Records related to "Carrollton Collects," an initiative of the West Georgia/State University of West Georgia Department of Art, begun in 1983, in which the department mounted an annual exhibition in the Department of Art Gallery of items belonging to local collectors.

Items include exhibition catalogs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photographs, contact sheets, negatives, printed programs, memoranda, notes, lists, label drafts, and other records, dating from 1983 to 2023.

During that period, "Carrollton Collects" displayed work by the following artists (and others) owned by local collectors: George Armfield, W.H. Auden, John James Audubon, Milton Avery, Umetaro Azechi, Constance Baker, Jennifer Bartlett, Antoine Louis Barye, J.C. Bell, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, William Blake, Georges Braque, Henry Charles Brewer, Artus Van Briggle, Alexander Calder, Ned Cartledge, Henry Casselli, Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Chou Chen, Rome Childers, Shen Chou, Fu Chuan-Fu, Charles Walter Clewell, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, Honore-Victorin Daumier, Jack Davis, William de Kooning, Claude Debussy, Edward Diers, Lamar Dodd, Helen Dowd, Betty Bivins Edwards, Helen Frankenthaler, Fulper Pottery, Thomas Gainsborough, Vincenzo Gemito, Charles Dana Gibson, Grass Mountain Master, Michael Graves, Julian Harris, William Hogarth, David Hockney, Winslow Homer, Jennine Hough, Charles Dean "Bullet" Hyten, Robert Indiana, Albert Horstmeier, Jennine Hough, Peter Hurd, Robert Indiana, Lee-jan Jan, Paul Jenkins, Jasper Johns, Sally Wood Johnson, Carl Kauba, John D. Kehoe, Rockwell Kent, Charles Bird King, Kathe Kollwitz, David Kou, Lu Kun, Toyohara Kunichika, Ni Lai, Le Corbusier, Roy Lichtenstein, Jere Lykins, Edouard Manet, Lismonde, Charles Jasper McLaughlin, Meso-American artists, Konstantin Milonadis, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Kaiko Moti, Ed Moulthrop, Wolfgang Mozart, Gladys Nilsson, Wallace Nutting, Wilheim Ohm, Shiro Otani, Ch'i Pai-shih, Maxfield Parrish, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Frederick Remington, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, James Rosenquist, Georges Rouault, George Segal, Ben Shahn, Kataro Shirayamadani, Chung Shou-jen, Jaques Sicard, Anna Frances Simpson, Theodoros Stamos, Igor Stravinsky, Wayne Thiebaud, Mark Tobey, Charles S. Todd, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Albert R. Valentien, Victor Vasarely, Giuseppe Verdi, Andy Warhol, Water Lily Stream, Anton von Webern, Weller Pottery, Ch'en Wen-hsi, Art Werger, Tom Wesselmann, Sir David Wilkie, E.M. Williams, Will Willner, Grant Wood, Utagawa Yoshimune, Yu Yu-jen.