High Museum of Art Peachtree Street Northeast Atlanta Ga

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Fine art museum in Atlanta, Georgia

Coordinates: 33°47′26″North 84°23′07″Due west / 33.79051°N 84.38517°W / 33.79051; -84.38517

High Museum of Art


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Established	1905^[ane]
Location	1280 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta
Coordinates	33°47′26″N 84°23′07″W / 33.79051°N 84.38517°W / 33.79051; -84.38517
Type	Art museum
Director	Randall Suffolk (2015– )
Public transit access	Arts Center station
Website	www.loftier.org

The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is an art museum in Atlanta, Georgia in the Southeastern United States. Located on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts commune, the High is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center.

In 2010 it had 509,000 visitors, 95th among world fine art museums.^{[ citation needed ]} ^[two]

History [edit]

Part of the new addition to the High designed by Renzo Piano

An Auguste Rodin sculpture The Shade, 1880-81, donated to the High by the French government in memory of victims of a plane crash during a museum-sponsored trip in Paris, France

The museum was founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association. In 1926, the Loftier family, for whom the museum is named, donated their family unit home on Peachtree Street to house the collection following a serial of exhibitions involving the Grand Key Art Galleries organized by Atlanta collector J. J. Haverty. Many pieces from the Haverty collection are now on permanent display in the High. A split up building for the museum was built next to the family domicile in 1955.

On June 3, 1962, 106 Atlanta arts patrons died in an airplane crash at Orly Airport in Paris, French republic, while on a museum-sponsored trip. Including crew and other passengers, 130 people were killed in what was, at the time, the worst single airplane aviation disaster in history.^[3] Members of Atlanta'southward prominent families were lost including members of the Berry family who founded Berry College. During their visit to Paris, the Atlanta arts patrons had seen Whistler's Mother at the Louvre.^[4] In the fall of 1962, the Louvre, as a gesture of skillful will to the people of Atlanta, sent Whistler's Mother to Atlanta to exist exhibited at the Atlanta Art Clan museum on Peachtree Street.^[5]

To honor those killed in the 1962 crash, the Atlanta Memorial Arts Heart was built for the High. The French government donated a Rodin sculpture The Shade to the High in retentiveness of the victims of the crash.^{[half dozen]}

In 1983, a 135,000-square-human foot (12,500 m²) building designed by Richard Meier opened to house the High Museum of Fine art. Meier won the 1984 Pritzker Prize afterwards completing the building. The Meier edifice was funded by a $7.nine million challenge grant from former Coca-Cola president Robert West. Woodruff matched past $xx million raised by the museum. Meier's highly sculptural building has been criticized equally having more beauty than brains. For example, synthetic with white concrete, the lobby, a giant atrium in the centre of the building's cutaway cube, has near no exhibition space, and columns throughout the interior restrict the way curators can display large works of modern art. Also with the atrium being only one of four quadrants, it's viewed every bit a luxuriously structured, but vacant pathway leading to the other exhibits, which is quite a shame when considering how radiant and light-filled the room is. At 135,000 foursquare anxiety (12,500 m²), the Meier edifice has room to display only about three percentage of the museum'due south permanent collection.^[7] Although the building officially contains 135,000 square feet, only about 52,000 square feet (4,800 1000²) is gallery space.

The Meier building, at present the Stent Family unit Wing, was termed Managing director Gudmund Vigtel'south "crowning achievement" by his successor Michael Shapiro. During Vigtel's tenure 1963-1991, the size of the museum'south permanent drove tripled, endowment and trust funds of more than $15 one thousand thousand were established, the operating budget increased from $60,000 to $9 million and the staff expanded from four to 150.^[viii]

In 2005, Renzo Pianoforte designed three new buildings which more than doubled the museum'southward size to 312,000 foursquare feet (29,000 g²), at a cost of $124 million.^[9] The Piano buildings were designed as part of an overall upgrade of the entire Woodruff Arts Centre complex. All three new buildings erected as role of the expansion of the High are clad in panels of aluminum to align with Meier'due south original choice of a white enamel façade. Piano's design of the new Wieland Pavilion and Anne Cox Chambers Fly features a special roof arrangement of 1,000 light scoops that capture northern light and filter it into the skyway galleries.

Drove [edit]

The Loftier Museum of Fine art'south permanent collection includes more than 18,000 artworks across vii collecting areas: African art, American art, decorative arts and design, European art, folk and self-taught art, modernistic and contemporary art, and photography. More than than one-3rd of the High's collection was acquired afterwards the museum announced its plans for expansion in 1999. Highlights of the collection include works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Claude Monet, Martin Johnson Heade, Dorothea Lange, Clarence John Laughlin, and Chuck Shut.

African Art

To reverberate the continent'due south deep, rich history while foregrounding recent innovations, the High's African art collection includes a multifariousness of art forms from ancient through contemporary times. To stand for the depth and latitude of the African diaspora, the High continues to strengthen its holdings of works past artists of African ancestry, including African American artists, to highlight cultural bonds throughout the Blackness Atlantic world and beyond.

The heart and soul of the African art drove consists of extraordinary examples of masks and figurative sculptures, enriched past exceptionally fine textiles, beadwork, metalwork, and ceramics. Antiquities include an animated terracotta sculpture of a female torso wrapped in snakes (ca. 1200–1500). From the region of ancient Djenne, one of Africa's oldest cities, this work represents Sogolon, mother of Sundiata, founder of the Republic of mali Empire. Forth with this work, a Qu'ran (ca. 1600) from Timbuktu, Djenne's sister metropolis, highlights art of the Mali Empire, ane of the largest and most important kingdoms the world has e'er known.

American Art

The Museum's American fine art collection includes more than 1,200 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints made by American artists betwixt 1780 and 1980. With particular strengths in historic American sculpture and painting, the drove demonstrates the evolution of a distinctly American point of view in creative representation.

From early American portraiture to the splendor of the Gold Age, the High'due south nineteenth-century drove includes works by John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Eastman Johnson, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Frederick Kensett, John Henry Twachtman, Harriet Hosmer, Edmonia Lewis, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mary Cassatt, and John Vocaliser Sargent. The High too holds works by America's most progressive artists of the modern age, from the Stieglitz Circle and abstract painters, to artists concerned with social justice and reform, to those rooted in the American art scene.

Decorative Arts and Blueprint

The decorative arts and design collection explores the merging of function and aesthetics through course, material, process, place, and intent. Information technology features the renowned Virginia Carroll Crawford Drove—the virtually comprehensive survey of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American decorative arts in the southeastern United States—with important works by Alexander Roux, Herter Brothers, Tiffany & Co., and Frank Lloyd Wright. Other notable gifts include the Frances and Emory Cocke Drove of English Ceramics from 1640 to 1840.

The collection'southward international contemporary design holdings recently have expanded with the add-on of significant works past Joris Laarman Lab, Jaime Hayon, Ron Arad, and nendo. With more than ii,300 objects dating from 1640 to the present, the drove explores the intersections between art, craft, and design; handcraft and engineering; and innovation and making.

European Art

Fall on the Seine, Argenteuil past Claude Monet, 1873

This collection represents seven centuries of artistic accomplishment throughout Europe. The High's holdings of more than than 1,000 paintings, sculptures, and works on newspaper span the 1300s through the 1900s and trace the development of organized religion, scientific discovery, and social change through the lens of the continent'southward visual culture.

In 1958, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation donated what became the core of the High'south European fine art collection. The Kress Collection includes Giovanni Bellini's Madonna and Kid, Vittore Carpaccio's Prudence and Temperance, and other artworks from Renaissance and Baroque Europe. Since then, the Loftier's European drove has grown to represent most major art movements and styles, exemplified by paintings and sculptures of such masters as Nicolas Tournier, Guercino (Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well), Jan Breughel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (The Burial of Atala), Camille Corot, Jean-Joseph Carriès (Sleeping Faun), and Auguste Rodin (Eternal Bound).

Today, the European collection is especially rich in French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, many of which came as a gift in 2019 from Atlanta collectors Doris and Shouky Shaheen. The holdings include Claude Monet's 1873 Autumn of the Seine; Argenteuil, a rare seascape past Frédéric Bazille, and Henri Matisse's Woman Seated at the Piano, too as paintings by Eugène Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Fantin-Latour, Émile Bernard, Édouard Vuillard, and others.

The High'due south significant European print holdings, displayed on a rotating basis, include work ranging from Albrecht Dürer'due south sixteenth-century engravings to a consummate edition of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec'south Elles portfolio of lithographs.

Folk and Self-Taught Art

The High Museum began collecting the piece of work of living cocky-taught artists in 1975 and was the first general interest museum to establish a dedicated department for folk and cocky-taught art in 1994. This drove is especially rich in artworks past Southern and African American artists and features the largest groups of work past Pecker Traylor, Howard Finster, Nellie Mae Rowe, and Thornton Dial held by any museum.

Although the majority of these artists could be identified as American or contemporary, the High refers to them as "folk," which underscores their condition every bit artists of the people, or "cocky-taught," to emphasize that they were non formally trained.

Modernistic and Contemporary Art

Mod and gimmicky art at the High traces the development of innovative visual languages since 1945 that have influenced how people perceive, empathize, and interpret the world, its histories, and man experience.

Modern and contemporary art at the Loftier Museum includes outstanding examples of piece of work by seminal artists, those only entering the canon, and emerging artists. The collection prominently features multiple works by artists such every bit Radcliffe Bailey, Alex Katz, and Ellsworth Kelly as well as a growing collection of meaning individual works past artists including Michaël Borremans, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, KAWS, Julie Mehretu, Judy Pfaff, Sarah Sze, and Kara Walker, with a special focus on work past African American artists.

Photography

The Loftier began collecting photographs in the early 1970s, making it amid the primeval museums to commit to the medium. Today, the photography section is one of the nation'south leading programs and, with some 7,500 prints, comprises the Museum'southward largest drove.

These holdings encompass work from around the globe fabricated past diverse practitioners, from artists, to entrepreneurs, to journalists, to scientists. Spanning the very beginnings of the medium in the 1840s to the present, the Loftier'southward collection has particular strengths in American modernist and documentary traditions from the mid-twentieth century as well as current contemporary trends.

The photography collection maintains a strong base of pictures related to the American Due south and situates this work inside a global context that is both regionally relevant and internationally pregnant. The High owns one of the largest collections of photographs of the ceremonious rights movement and some of the country'southward strongest monographic collections of photographs by Eugene Atget, Dawoud Bey, Isla Bing, Wynn Bullock, Lucinda Bunnen, Harry Callahan, William Christenberry, Walker Evans, Leonard Freed, Evelyn Hofer, Clarence John Laughlin, Abelardo Morell, and Peter Sekaer.

The collection also gives special attention to pictures made in and of the Southward, serving equally the largest and about significant repository representing the region'southward important contributions to the history of photography. Since 1996, the High'southward distinctive "Picturing the South" initiative has deputed established and emerging photographers to produce work inspired by the area's geographical and cultural mural. Past participants include Sally Isle of mann, Dawoud Bey, Ant Gowin, Alex Webb, Alec Soth, Richard Misrach, Kael Alford and Debbie Fleming Caffery, whose commissions accept all been added to the Loftier's permanent collection.

Exhibitions [edit]

Special exhibitions at the High feature strong global partnerships with other museums such every bit the Louvre and with the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore and the Opificio delle pietre dure in Florence. In 2008, the museum inked a US$18 million bargain for Louvre Atlanta, a three-year revolving loan of art from the Musée du Louvre in Paris, resulting in the museum'due south highest attendance ever.^[9] Its most popular individual show was 2009's Louvre Atlanta: the Louvre and the Masterpiece.

The museum is besides a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.^[10]

Beyond from the High during the "Picasso to Warhol" showroom

Selected exhibitions [edit]

Oct 2007 – September 2008: Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Aboriginal World
Oct 2007 – May 2008: Louvre Atlanta: Eye of Josephine
Dec 2007 – August 2008: Street Life: American Photographs form the 1960s and 70s
May 2008 – August 2008: Young Americans: Photographs past Sheila Pree Bright
June 2008 – September 2008: Louvre Atlanta: Houdon at the Louvre: Masterworks of the Enlightenment
June 2008 – October 2008: Road to Freedom: Photographs from the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
June 2008 – October 2008: After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
Nov 2008: The First Emperor: China'south Terracotta Army
2008: Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum
2008: Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Masterpiece
2008: The Treasure of Ulysses Davis ^[11]
April 2009: Anthony Ames, Builder: Residential Landscapes
Oct 2009 – February 2010: Leonardo da Vinci: The Hand of the Genius
2009: Monet "Water Lilies" Exhibit
March 2010 – June 2010: The Attraction of the Automobile
Baronial 2010 – January 2011: Dali: The Late Work
Oct 2011 – Apr 2012: Picasso to Warhol – mod art including Picasso, Pollock, Matisse, Mondrian, and Warhol.
June 2012 – September 2012: Picturing the South – photographs by Martin Parr, Kael Alford, and Shane Lavalette^[12] ^[13]
February 2013 – May 2013: Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting – featuring art from Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
June 2013 – September 2013: The Girl with the Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis – featuring art from Vermeer and Rembrandt
November 2013 – Jan 2014: The Art of the Louvre'due south Tuileries Garden
Nov 2013 – Apr 2014: Go West! Art of the American Frontier
February 2014 – May 2014: Abelardo Morell: The Universe Adjacent Door
May 2014 – September 2014: Dream Cars: Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas
July 2014 – November 2014: Mi Casa, Your Casa
October 2014 – January 2015: Cezanne and the Modern
Nov 2014 – June 2015: Gordon Parks: Segregation Story
February 2015 – May 2015: Imagining New Worlds
April 2015 – November 2015: Los Trompos
May 2015 – January 2016: Seriously Silly! The art & whimsy of Mo Willems
June 2015 – September 2015: Alex Katz, This Is Now
July 2015 – October 2015: Sprawl! Drawing Outside the Lines
October 2015 – Jan 2016: Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna's Majestic Collections
November 2015 – June 2016: Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion
February 2016 – August 2016: Vik Muniz
March 2016 – January 2017: I Come across a Story: The Art of Eric Carle
June 2016 – August 2016: The Rise of Sneaker Civilisation
June 2016 – September 2016: Walker Evans: Depth of Field
June 2016 – Nov 2016: Tiovivo: Whimsical Sculptures by Jaime Hayon
October 2016 – January 2017: Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett ^[fourteen]
October 2016 – January 2017: Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics ^[15]
February 2017 – May 2017: Cross Land: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915−1950 ^[16]
November 2016 – July 2017: A Conspiracy of Icons: The Art of Donald Locke
March 2017 – May 2017: Daniel Arsham: Hourglass
March 2017 – June 2017: The Spirit of the Place: Photographs by Jack Lee
April 2017 – Jan 2018: Painter and Poet: The Wonderful Earth of Ashley Bryan
June 2017 – October 2017: Technicolor
June 2017 – October 2017: Paul Graham: The Whiteness of the Whale
June 2017 – October 2017: Universal and Sublime: The Vessels of Magdalene Odundo
June 2017 – Nov 2017: Merry Go Zoo
June 2017 – December 2017: Andy Warhol: Prints from the Collections of Hashemite kingdom of jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
September 2017 – April 2019: Amy Elkins: Black Is the Day, Black Is the Night
October 2017 – January 2018: Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design
November 2017 – April 2018: "A Fire That No H2o Could Put Out": Civil Rights Photography
November 2017 – March 2018: Al Taylor, What Are You lot Looking At?
February 2018 – May 2018: Joris Laarman Lab: Design In the Digital Age
March 2018 – June 2018: Marker Steinmetz: Terminus
June 2018 – September 2018: Winnie-The-Pooh: Exploring a Classic
June 2018 – September 2018: Outliers and American Vanguard Art
June 2018 – October 2018: Sonic Playground: Yuri Suzuki
September 2018 – Feb 2019: With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith
October 2018 – Apr 2018: William Christenberry: Fourth dimension & Texture
November 2018 – February 2019: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
Oct 2018 – Apr 2019: Look Again: 45 Years of Collecting Photography
October 2018 – August 2019: Hand to Hand: Southern Craft of the 19th Century
March 2019 – May 2019: Way Out At that place: The Art of Southern Backroads
April 2019 – July 2019: European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection
May 2019 – Nov 2019: Strange Calorie-free: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin
June 2019 – September 2019: The Pursuit of Everything: Maira Kalman'south Books for Children
June 2019 – September 20119: Of Origins and Belonging, Drawn from Atlanta
July 2019 – September 2019: Supple Means of Connexion

Management [edit]

From 1963, Gudmund Vigtel led the Loftier as managing director for 28 years, overseeing its transformation from a regional institution housed in a elementary brick building into one of the nation's most successful art museums, and shepherding its move to its edifice designed by Richard Meier.^[17] Ned Rifkin served every bit the museum's director between 1991 and 2000.^[18] During the tenure of director Michael Eastward. Shapiro between 2000 and 2014, the museum nearly doubled the number of works in its permanent collection, acquiring of import paintings by 19th and 20th century and contemporary artists.^[xix] The Loftier raised nearly $230 million during that time, increasing its endowment past nigh 30 percent and edifice an acquisition fund of most $20 million.^[19] In July 2015, the High Museum of Art appear that it had selected Randall Suffolk to be its new director. Suffolk began his tenure in Nov 2015.^[20]

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^ ^a ^b Goodman, Brenda (October sixteen, 2006). "The Louvre Views Its Fine art in a New Manner (When Showing It in Atlanta)". The New York Times . Retrieved Oct 16, 2006.
^ "Smithsonian Affiliate Directory". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
^ "The Treasure of Ulysses Davis". Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. May xv, 2010. Archived from the original on December three, 2013. Retrieved Nov 29, 2013.
^ "High Commissions Three New Photographers for "Picturing the S" Series" (Press release). High Museum of Art. December ane, 2011. Archived from the original on Feb two, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
^ "Picturing New York - Picturing The South". High Museum of Art. Archived from the original on March 23, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
^ "Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett". Retrieved January 6, 2019.
^ "Thomas Struth: Nature and Politics". Retrieved January vi, 2019.
^ "Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915–1950". Retrieved Jan vi, 2019.
^ Vitello, Paul (October 28, 2012). "Gudmund Vigtel, Pivotal Director of High Museum, Dies at 87". The New York Times.
^ "Ned Rifkin Appointed Caput of High Museum". The New York Times. May 4, 1991.
^ ^a ^b Kennedy, Randy (October 29, 2014). "Managing director of Atlanta's High Museum to Pace Down". The New York Times.
^ Kennedy, Randy (July 29, 2015). "Atlanta's High Museum Names New Director: Randall Suffolk". The New York Times.