High Museum of Art 1280 Peachtree Street Ne Atlanta Ga

Art museum in Atlanta, Georgia

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

High Museum of Fine art

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Established	1905[1]
Location	1280 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta
Coordinates	33°47′26″North 84°23′07″W  /  33.79051°Due north 84.38517°W  / 33.79051; -84.38517
Blazon	Art museum
Director	Randall Suffolk (2015– )
Public transit access	Arts Center station
Website	www.high.org

The High Museum of Fine art (colloquially the High) is an art museum in Atlanta, Georgia in the Southeastern Usa. Located on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the urban center's arts district, the Loftier is a sectionalisation of the Woodruff Arts Middle.

In 2010 it had 509,000 visitors, 95th among globe art museums.^{[ citation needed ] [2]}

History [edit]

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

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

The museum was founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Fine art Association. In 1926, the Loftier family, for whom the museum is named, donated their family home on Peachtree Street to house the collection following a series of exhibitions involving the Grand Cardinal Art Galleries organized by Atlanta collector J. J. Haverty. Many pieces from the Haverty collection are now on permanent brandish in the Loftier. A dissever building for the museum was built adjacent to the family home in 1955.

On June 3, 1962, 106 Atlanta arts patrons died in an plane crash at Orly Airdrome in Paris, France, while on a museum-sponsored trip. Including coiffure and other passengers, 130 people were killed in what was, at the fourth dimension, the worst unmarried plane aviation disaster in history.^[iii] Members of Atlanta's prominent families were lost including members of the Drupe family who founded Berry College. During their visit to Paris, the Atlanta arts patrons had seen Whistler'south Mother at the Louvre.^[iv] In the autumn of 1962, the Louvre, equally a gesture of good volition to the people of Atlanta, sent Whistler's Mother to Atlanta to be exhibited at the Atlanta Fine art Clan museum on Peachtree Street.^[5]

To honor those killed in the 1962 crash, the Atlanta Memorial Arts Centre was built for the High. The French authorities donated a Rodin sculpture The Shade to the High in retentiveness of the victims of the crash.^[6]

In 1983, a 135,000-foursquare-foot (12,500 m²) building designed by Richard Meier opened to house the High Museum of Art. Meier won the 1984 Pritzker Prize afterward completing the edifice. The Meier building was funded by a $vii.nine meg challenge grant from one-time Coca-Cola president Robert W. Woodruff matched by $20 million raised by the museum. Meier's highly sculptural building has been criticized as having more dazzler than brains. For example, constructed with white concrete, the lobby, a giant atrium in the middle of the building's cutaway cube, has almost no exhibition space, and columns throughout the interior restrict the way curators can display big works of modern art. Also with the atrium being only i of 4 quadrants, it's viewed as a luxuriously structured, but vacant pathway leading to the other exhibits, which is quite a shame when because how radiant and light-filled the room is. At 135,000 foursquare anxiety (12,500 m²), the Meier building has room to brandish only about 3 percent of the museum's permanent drove.^[vii] Although the building officially contains 135,000 square feet, simply about 52,000 square feet (iv,800 yard^two) is gallery infinite.

The Meier building, now the Stent Family Wing, was termed Manager Gudmund Vigtel's "crowning accomplishment" by his successor Michael Shapiro. During Vigtel's tenure 1963-1991, the size of the museum's permanent drove tripled, endowment and trust funds of more than $fifteen million were established, the operating budget increased from $sixty,000 to $nine 1000000 and the staff expanded from four to 150.^[8]

In 2005, Renzo Pianoforte designed 3 new buildings which more doubled the museum's size to 312,000 square feet (29,000 mⁱⁱ), at a cost of $124 one thousand thousand.^[ix] The Piano buildings were designed as part of an overall upgrade of the entire Woodruff Arts Center complex. All iii new buildings erected equally part of the expansion of the High are clad in panels of aluminum to marshal with Meier's original choice of a white enamel façade. Piano's design of the new Wieland Pavilion and Anne Cox Chambers Fly features a special roof organisation of 1,000 light scoops that capture northern lite and filter information technology into the skyway galleries.

Collection [edit]

The High Museum of Art'southward permanent collection includes more 18,000 artworks across vii collecting areas: African art, American fine art, decorative arts and design, European art, folk and cocky-taught fine art, modern and contemporary art, and photography. More than one-third of the High's drove was acquired after 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 reflect the continent'south deep, rich history while foregrounding recent innovations, the High'southward African art collection includes a diversity of art forms from ancient through gimmicky times. To represent the depth and latitude of the African diaspora, the High continues to strengthen its holdings of works by 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 terra cotta sculpture of a female torso wrapped in snakes (ca. 1200–1500). From the region of aboriginal Djenne, 1 of Africa's oldest cities, this piece of work represents Sogolon, mother of Sundiata, founder of the Republic of mali Empire. Along with this work, a Qu'ran (ca. 1600) from Timbuktu, Djenne's sister metropolis, highlights fine art of the Republic of mali Empire, one of the largest and most of import kingdoms the world has ever known.

American Fine art

The Museum'southward American fine art collection includes more than 1,200 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints fabricated by American artists between 1780 and 1980. With particular strengths in celebrated American sculpture and painting, the collection demonstrates the evolution of a distinctly American signal of view in artistic representation.

From early American portraiture to the splendor of the Gilded Age, the Loftier's nineteenth-century drove includes works by John Singleton Copley, Benjamin Due west, Eastman Johnson, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Frederick Kensett, John Henry Twachtman, Harriet Hosmer, Edmonia Lewis, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mary Cassatt, and John Singer Sargent. The Loftier also holds works by America'southward well-nigh 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 Design

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

The drove'southward international contemporary design holdings recently have expanded with the addition of significant works by Joris Laarman Lab, Jaime Hayon, Ron Arad, and nendo. With more than 2,300 objects dating from 1640 to the present, the collection explores the intersections betwixt art, craft, and design; handcraft and technology; and innovation and making.

European Art

Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil by Claude Monet, 1873

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

In 1958, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation donated what became the core of the High's European fine art drove. The Kress Collection includes Giovanni Bellini's Madonna and Child, Vittore Carpaccio's Prudence and Temperance, and other artworks from Renaissance and Baroque Europe. Since then, the High'south European collection has grown to correspond 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 Elderberry, 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 by Frédéric Bazille, and Henri Matisse'south Adult female Seated at the Piano, every bit well as paintings by Eugène Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Fantin-Latour, Émile Bernard, Édouard Vuillard, and others.

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

Folk and Self-Taught Art

The High Museum began collecting the work of living cocky-taught artists in 1975 and was the first full general involvement museum to establish a dedicated section for folk and cocky-taught art in 1994. This collection is peculiarly rich in artworks by Southern and African American artists and features the largest groups of work by Bill Traylor, Howard Finster, Nellie Mae Rowe, and Thornton Punch held past any museum.

Although the majority of these artists could be identified as American or gimmicky, the High refers to them equally "folk," which underscores their status as artists of the people, or "self-taught," to emphasize that they were not formally trained.

Modern and Gimmicky Fine art

Modernistic and contemporary art at the Loftier traces the evolution of innovative visual languages since 1945 that take influenced how people perceive, understand, and interpret the world, its histories, and human experience.

Modern and contemporary fine art at the High 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 as Radcliffe Bailey, Alex Katz, and Ellsworth Kelly as well equally a growing collection of meaning individual works by artists including Michaël Borremans, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, KAWS, Julie Mehretu, Judy Pfaff, Sarah Sze, and Kara Walker, with a special focus on piece of work past African American artists.

Photography

The High began collecting photographs in the early 1970s, making information technology among the primeval museums to commit to the medium. Today, the photography department is i of the nation's leading programs and, with some 7,500 prints, comprises the Museum'south largest drove.

These holdings encompass piece of work from around the earth made by diverse practitioners, from artists, to entrepreneurs, to journalists, to scientists. Spanning the very beginnings of the medium in the 1840s to the nowadays, the Loftier'southward drove 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 stiff base of pictures related to the American Southward and situates this work inside a global context that is both regionally relevant and internationally significant. The High owns one of the largest collections of photographs of the civil 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 as well gives special attention to pictures made in and of the South, serving every bit the largest and most significant repository representing the region's important contributions to the history of photography. Since 1996, the Loftier'southward distinctive "Picturing the S" initiative has commissioned established and emerging photographers to produce work inspired by the expanse'due south geographical and cultural landscape. By participants include Sally Mann, Dawoud Bey, Emmet Gowin, Alex Webb, Alec Soth, Richard Misrach, Kael Alford and Debbie Fleming Caffery, whose commissions have all been added to the High's permanent collection.

Exhibitions [edit]

Special exhibitions at the High feature strong global partnerships with other museums such as 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 U.s.a.$18 1000000 bargain for Louvre Atlanta, a three-twelvemonth revolving loan of art from the Musée du Louvre in Paris, resulting in the museum's highest omnipresence ever.^[9] Its nearly popular individual bear witness was 2009's Louvre Atlanta: the Louvre and the Masterpiece.

The museum is likewise a Smithsonian Establishment Affiliate.^[10]

Across from the High during the "Picasso to Warhol" exhibit

Selected exhibitions [edit]

• Oct 2007 – September 2008: Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Ancient Globe
• October 2007 – May 2008: Louvre Atlanta: Centre of Josephine
• Dec 2007 – Baronial 2008: Street Life: American Photographs form the 1960s and 70s
• May 2008 – August 2008: Immature Americans: Photographs by 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 Ceremonious Rights Motility, 1956–1968
• June 2008 – October 2008: After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
• November 2008: The Beginning Emperor: Red china'due south Terra cotta Ground forces
• 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, Architect: Residential Landscapes
• October 2009 – Feb 2010: Leonardo da Vinci: The Hand of the Genius
• 2009: Monet "Water Lilies" Showroom
• March 2010 – June 2010: The Allure of the Motorcar
• August 2010 – January 2011: Dali: The Late Piece of work
• Oct 2011 – Apr 2012: Picasso to Warhol – modern 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] [xiii]}
• 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 – January 2014: The Art of the Louvre's Tuileries Garden
• November 2013 – April 2014: Go West! Fine art of the American Frontier
• February 2014 – May 2014: Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door
• May 2014 – September 2014: Dream Cars: Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas
• July 2014 – Nov 2014: Mi Casa, Your Casa
• October 2014 – Jan 2015: Cezanne and the Mod
• November 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 fine 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 – January 2016: Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna's Regal Collections
• November 2015 – June 2016: Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion
• February 2016 – August 2016: Vik Muniz
• March 2016 – January 2017: I See 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 past Jaime Hayon
• Oct 2016 – January 2017: Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett ^[14]
• Oct 2016 – January 2017: Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics ^[15]
• February 2017 – May 2017: Cantankerous State: 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
• Apr 2017 – January 2018: Painter and Poet: The Wonderful World 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 – November 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 Pattern
• Nov 2017 – Apr 2018: "A Fire That No H2o Could Put Out": Civil Rights Photography
• Nov 2017 – March 2018: Al Taylor, What Are Yous Looking At?
• February 2018 – May 2018: Joris Laarman Lab: Pattern In the Digital Age
• March 2018 – June 2018: Mark Steinmetz: Terminus
• June 2018 – September 2018: Winnie-The-Pooh: Exploring a Archetype
• June 2018 – September 2018: Outliers and American Vanguard Art
• June 2018 – October 2018: Sonic Playground: Yuri Suzuki
• September 2018 – February 2019: With Drawn Artillery: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith
• October 2018 – April 2018: William Christenberry: Time & Texture
• November 2018 – Feb 2019: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
• October 2018 – Apr 2019: Look Again: 45 Years of Collecting Photography
• October 2018 – August 2019: Manus to Hand: Southern Craft of the 19th Century
• March 2019 – May 2019: Fashion Out In that location: The Art of Southern Backroads
• April 2019 – July 2019: European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection
• May 2019 – November 2019: Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin
• June 2019 – September 2019: The Pursuit of Everything: Maira Kalman'southward Books for Children
• June 2019 – September 20119: Of Origins and Belonging, Fatigued from Atlanta
• July 2019 – September 2019: Supple Means of Connexion

Management [edit]

From 1963, Gudmund Vigtel led the High equally managing director for 28 years, overseeing its transformation from a regional institution housed in a simple brick building into 1 of the nation'southward 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 E. Shapiro between 2000 and 2014, the museum near 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 virtually $230 million during that time, increasing its endowment past almost xxx percent and building an acquisition fund of nearly $20 million.^[19] In July 2015, the High Museum of Art announced that information technology had selected Randall Suffolk to be its new director. Suffolk began his tenure in Nov 2015.^[20]

References [edit]

1. ^ "High Museum of Fine art Releases "Kaws: Down Fourth dimension" Exhibition Catalogue" (Press release). High Museum of Art. March 15, 2013. Archived from the original on Baronial 21, 2016. Retrieved June xxx, 2017.
2. ^ "Loftier Museum of Art".
3. ^ "1962: 130 dice in Paris air crash". BBC News. June 3, 1962. Retrieved November 7, 2006.
4. ^ Golden, Randy (June five, 2007). "Airplane crash at Orly Field". Virtually North Georgia. Retrieved Oct 16, 2011.
5. ^ Zöllner, Frank (July 15–xx, 1992). "John F. Kennedy and Leonardo'southward Mona Lisa: Art as the Continuation of Politics [English version tr. by David Jacobs and revised]" (PDF). archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de . Retrieved November 5, 2012.
6. ^ Gupton Jr., Guy W. "Pat" (Spring 2000). "Commencement Person". Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Retrieved November 22, 2010.
7. ^ Goodman, Brenda (November 12, 2005). "Atlanta Museum'south New Pitch: Come for the Compages, Stay for the Fine art". The New York Times . Retrieved November 12, 2005.
8. ^ Shaw, Michelle Eastward. (October 24, 2012). "Gudmund Vigtel, 87: The 'defining' director of the High Museum of Art". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Retrieved June thirty, 2017.
9. ^ ^{a b} Goodman, Brenda (Oct 16, 2006). "The Louvre Views Its Art in a New Way (When Showing It in Atlanta)". The New York Times . Retrieved October 16, 2006.
10. ^ "Smithsonian Chapter Directory". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
11. ^ "The Treasure of Ulysses Davis". Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. May xv, 2010. Archived from the original on Dec 3, 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
12. ^ "High Commissions 3 New Photographers for "Picturing the Southward" Series" (Press release). High Museum of Art. December i, 2011. Archived from the original on February ii, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
13. ^ "Picturing New York - Picturing The South". Loftier Museum of Art. Archived from the original on March 23, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
14. ^ "Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett". Retrieved January 6, 2019.
15. ^ "Thomas Struth: Nature and Politics". Retrieved January 6, 2019.
16. ^ "Cross Country: The Power of Identify in American Fine art, 1915–1950". Retrieved Jan six, 2019.
17. ^ Vitello, Paul (Oct 28, 2012). "Gudmund Vigtel, Pivotal Director of High Museum, Dies at 87". The New York Times.
18. ^ "Ned Rifkin Appointed Head of High Museum". The New York Times. May 4, 1991.
19. ^ ^{a b} Kennedy, Randy (October 29, 2014). "Director of Atlanta's Loftier Museum to Step Downward". The New York Times.
20. ^ Kennedy, Randy (July 29, 2015). "Atlanta's Loftier Museum Names New Director: Randall Suffolk". The New York Times.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Atlanta Art Association Film from 1962

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