High Museum of Art 1280 Peachtree St Ne Atlanta Ga 30309

Art museum in Atlanta, Georgia

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

Fine art museum in Peachtree Street NE , Atlanta

High Museum of Art

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

The Loftier 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 city's arts district, the High is a sectionalization of the Woodruff Arts Center.

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

History [edit]

Function of the new addition to the High designed past Renzo Piano

An Auguste Rodin sculpture The Shade, 1880-81, donated to the High past the French regime 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 Art Association. In 1926, the High family unit, for whom the museum is named, donated their family home on Peachtree Street to business firm the collection following a series of exhibitions involving the M Central Fine art Galleries organized by Atlanta collector J. J. Haverty. Many pieces from the Haverty drove are now on permanent display in the High. A split up building for the museum was congenital adjacent to the family unit home in 1955.

On June 3, 1962, 106 Atlanta arts patrons died in an plane crash at Orly Airport in Paris, France, while on a museum-sponsored trip. Including crew and other passengers, 130 people were killed in what was, at the time, the worst single aeroplane aviation disaster in history.^[iii] Members of Atlanta's 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'southward Mother at the Louvre.^[4] In the fall of 1962, the Louvre, as a gesture of good will to the people of Atlanta, sent Whistler's Female parent to Atlanta to be exhibited at the Atlanta Art Clan museum on Peachtree Street.^[5]

To award those killed in the 1962 crash, the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center was built for the High. The French regime donated a Rodin sculpture The Shade to the High in memory of the victims of the crash.^[6]

In 1983, a 135,000-foursquare-foot (12,500 grand²) building designed by Richard Meier opened to house the High Museum of Art. Meier won the 1984 Pritzker Prize after completing the building. The Meier building was funded by a $vii.9 one thousand thousand claiming grant from old Coca-Cola president Robert West. Woodruff matched by $20 million raised by the museum. Meier's highly sculptural building has been criticized equally having more beauty than brains. For example, constructed with white concrete, the antechamber, a behemothic atrium in the middle of the building'due south cutaway cube, has almost no exhibition space, and columns throughout the interior restrict the way curators can display big works of modernistic art. Also with the atrium being merely ane of four quadrants, information technology's viewed every bit a luxuriously structured, just 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 square feet (12,500 thou²), the Meier building has room to brandish simply about three percent of the museum'southward permanent collection.^[7] Although the edifice officially contains 135,000 square anxiety, only nearly 52,000 foursquare feet (4,800 m²) is gallery space.

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

In 2005, Renzo Piano designed three new buildings which more than doubled the museum's size to 312,000 square anxiety (29,000 mⁱⁱ), at a price of $124 million.^[9] The Pianoforte buildings were designed as office of an overall upgrade of the entire Woodruff Arts Center complex. All 3 new buildings erected as office of the expansion of the High are clad in panels of aluminum to align with Meier's original choice of a white enamel façade. Piano'south design of the new Wieland Pavilion and Anne Cox Chambers Wing features a special roof system of 1,000 light scoops that capture northern lite and filter information technology into the skyway galleries.

Collection [edit]

The High Museum of Fine art'south permanent collection includes more than than 18,000 artworks across seven collecting areas: African fine art, American art, decorative arts and pattern, European art, folk and self-taught fine art, modern and gimmicky art, and photography. More than one-3rd of the High's drove was caused 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 Close.

African Art

To reflect the continent's deep, rich history while foregrounding recent innovations, the High'south African art collection includes a diversity of art forms from ancient through contemporary 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 Black Atlantic world and beyond.

The heart and soul of the African art collection consists of extraordinary examples of masks and figurative sculptures, enriched by exceptionally fine textiles, beadwork, metalwork, and ceramics. Antiquities include an animated terra cotta sculpture of a female person torso wrapped in snakes (ca. 1200–1500). From the region of ancient Djenne, one of Africa's oldest cities, this work represents Sogolon, female parent of Sundiata, founder of the Mali Empire. Along with this piece of work, a Qu'ran (ca. 1600) from Timbuktu, Djenne's sis city, highlights art of the Mali Empire, 1 of the largest and nearly of import kingdoms the world has always known.

American Art

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

From early American portraiture to the splendor of the Gilded Historic period, the High'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 Singer Sargent. The High too holds works past America's well-nigh progressive artists of the mod 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 pattern drove explores the merging of function and aesthetics through class, material, procedure, identify, and intent. Information technology 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 Ceramics from 1640 to 1840.

The collection's international contemporary design holdings recently have expanded with the add-on 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 between fine art, craft, and blueprint; handcraft and technology; and innovation and making.

European Art

Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil by Claude Monet, 1873

This collection represents seven centuries of creative achievement throughout Europe. The High's holdings of more one,000 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper span the 1300s through the 1900s and trace the development of organized religion, scientific discovery, and social modify through the lens of the continent's visual civilisation.

In 1958, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation donated what became the core of the Loftier's European fine art collection. The Kress Collection includes Giovanni Bellini'south Madonna and Kid, Vittore Carpaccio's Prudence and Temperance, and other artworks from Renaissance and Bizarre Europe. Since and then, the Loftier'south European collection 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 Adult female at the Well), Jan Breughel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (The Burying of Atala), Camille Corot, Jean-Joseph Carriès (Sleeping Faun), and Auguste Rodin (Eternal Spring).

Today, the European drove is particularly 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'southward 1873 Autumn of the Seine; Argenteuil, a rare seascape by Frédéric Bazille, and Henri Matisse's Adult female Seated at the Pianoforte, as well as paintings past Eugène Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Fantin-Latour, Émile Bernard, Édouard Vuillard, and others.

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

Folk and Self-Taught Art

The Loftier Museum began collecting the work of living self-taught artists in 1975 and was the kickoff full general interest museum to institute a dedicated department for folk and cocky-taught fine art in 1994. This drove is especially rich in artworks past Southern and African American artists and features the largest groups of work past Bill Traylor, Howard Finster, Nellie Mae Rowe, and Thornton Punch held by whatsoever museum.

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

Modern and Contemporary Art

Modern and contemporary art at the High traces the evolution of innovative visual languages since 1945 that have influenced how people perceive, sympathise, and interpret the world, its histories, and human experience.

Modern and contemporary art at the High Museum includes outstanding examples of work by seminal artists, those just entering the canon, and emerging artists. The collection prominently features multiple works by artists such equally Radcliffe Bailey, Alex Katz, and Ellsworth Kelly as well as a growing collection of significant private 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 by African American artists.

Photography

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

These holdings encompass work from around the world made by diverse practitioners, from artists, to entrepreneurs, to journalists, to scientists. Spanning the very beginnings of the medium in the 1840s to the present, the High'south collection has particular strengths in American modernist and documentary traditions from the mid-twentieth century likewise as current contemporary trends.

The photography collection maintains a strong base of pictures related to the American South and situates this work within a global context that is both regionally relevant and internationally pregnant. The High owns ane of the largest collections of photographs of the civil rights movement and some of the country'south strongest monographic collections of photographs past 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 South, serving as the largest and near significant repository representing the region's important contributions to the history of photography. Since 1996, the Loftier's distinctive "Picturing the Southward" initiative has commissioned established and emerging photographers to produce work inspired by the area's geographical and cultural landscape. Past 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 potent 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 Usa$18 meg deal for Louvre Atlanta, a three-twelvemonth revolving loan of fine art from the Musée du Louvre in Paris, resulting in the museum's highest attendance e'er.^[9] Its near pop private bear witness was 2009's Louvre Atlanta: the Louvre and the Masterpiece.

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

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

Selected exhibitions [edit]

• Oct 2007 – September 2008: Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Ancient World
• October 2007 – May 2008: Louvre Atlanta: Heart of Josephine
• Dec 2007 – Baronial 2008: Street Life: American Photographs form the 1960s and 70s
• May 2008 – August 2008: Young 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 Liberty: Photographs from the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
• June 2008 – October 2008: Afterwards 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
• Nov 2008: The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Regular 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]
• Apr 2009: Anthony Ames, Architect: Residential Landscapes
• Oct 2009 – February 2010: Leonardo da Vinci: The Hand of the Genius
• 2009: Monet "Water Lilies" Exhibit
• March 2010 – June 2010: The Allure of the Auto
• August 2010 – Jan 2011: Dali: The Late Work
• October 2011 – Apr 2012: Picasso to Warhol – modernistic fine art including Picasso, Pollock, Matisse, Mondrian, and Warhol.
• June 2012 – September 2012: Picturing the South – photographs past 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
• Nov 2013 – January 2014: The Art of the Louvre'southward Tuileries Garden
• November 2013 – April 2014: Become West! Art of the American Borderland
• February 2014 – May 2014: Abelardo Morell: The Universe Side by side Door
• May 2014 – September 2014: Dream Cars: Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas
• July 2014 – November 2014: Mi Casa, Your Casa
• Oct 2014 – January 2015: Cezanne and the Modern
• November 2014 – June 2015: Gordon Parks: Segregation Story
• February 2015 – May 2015: Imagining New Worlds
• April 2015 – Nov 2015: Los Trompos
• May 2015 – January 2016: Seriously Light-headed! The art & whimsy of Mo Willems
• June 2015 – September 2015: Alex Katz, This Is At present
• July 2015 – Oct 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 Come across a Story: The Art of Eric Carle
• June 2016 – August 2016: The Rise of Sneaker Culture
• June 2016 – September 2016: Walker Evans: Depth of Field
• June 2016 – Nov 2016: Tiovivo: Whimsical Sculptures by Jaime Hayon
• Oct 2016 – Jan 2017: Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett ^[14]
• October 2016 – Jan 2017: Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics ^[15]
• Feb 2017 – May 2017: Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915−1950 ^[16]
• November 2016 – July 2017: A Conspiracy of Icons: The Fine 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 – Oct 2017: Technicolor
• June 2017 – October 2017: Paul Graham: The Whiteness of the Whale
• June 2017 – Oct 2017: Universal and Sublime: The Vessels of Magdalene Odundo
• June 2017 – November 2017: Merry Get Zoo
• June 2017 – December 2017: Andy Warhol: Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
• September 2017 – Apr 2019: Amy Elkins: Black Is the Mean solar day, Black Is the Night
• October 2017 – January 2018: Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design
• November 2017 – April 2018: "A Burn down That No H2o Could Put Out": Civil Rights Photography
• November 2017 – March 2018: Al Taylor, What Are You 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 Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith
• October 2018 – April 2018: William Christenberry: Time & Texture
• Nov 2018 – February 2019: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
• Oct 2018 – April 2019: Look Once again: 45 Years of Collecting Photography
• October 2018 – August 2019: Manus to Mitt: Southern Craft of the 19th Century
• March 2019 – May 2019: Way Out There: The Fine art of Southern Backroads
• Apr 2019 – July 2019: European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection
• May 2019 – November 2019: Foreign Low-cal: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin
• June 2019 – September 2019: The Pursuit of Everything: Maira Kalman's Books for Children
• June 2019 – September 20119: Of Origins and Belonging, Drawn from Atlanta
• July 2019 – September 2019: Supple Means of Connection

Management [edit]

From 1963, Gudmund Vigtel led the High as director for 28 years, overseeing its transformation from a regional institution housed in a simple brick building into one of the nation'southward well-nigh successful art museums, and shepherding its motion to its building designed by Richard Meier.^[17] Ned Rifkin served as the museum'southward director between 1991 and 2000.^[xviii] 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 important paintings by 19th and 20th century and contemporary artists.^[19] The High raised nearly $230 million during that time, increasing its endowment by near 30 per centum and building an acquisition fund of nearly $twenty million.^[19] In July 2015, the High Museum of Art announced that it had selected Randall Suffolk to be its new director. Suffolk began his tenure in November 2015.^[xx]

References [edit]

1. ^ "High Museum of Art Releases "Kaws: Downward Time" Exhibition Catalogue" (Press release). High Museum of Art. March 15, 2013. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
2. ^ "High Museum of Art".
3. ^ "1962: 130 die in Paris air crash". BBC News. June 3, 1962. Retrieved November vii, 2006.
4. ^ Gilt, Randy (June five, 2007). "Plane crash at Orly Field". Most N Georgia. Retrieved Oct 16, 2011.
5. ^ Zöllner, Frank (July xv–twenty, 1992). "John F. Kennedy and Leonardo's 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 Due west. "Pat" (Spring 2000). "Outset Person". Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Retrieved November 22, 2010.
7. ^ Goodman, Brenda (Nov 12, 2005). "Atlanta Museum'due south New Pitch: Come for the Architecture, Stay for the Fine art". The New York Times . Retrieved November 12, 2005.
8. ^ Shaw, Michelle E. (October 24, 2012). "Gudmund Vigtel, 87: The 'defining' director of the High Museum of Fine art". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Retrieved June 30, 2017.
9. ^ ^{a b} Goodman, Brenda (Oct 16, 2006). "The Louvre Views Its Art in a New Way (When Showing Information technology in Atlanta)". The New York Times . Retrieved October 16, 2006.
10. ^ "Smithsonian Affiliate Directory". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved June thirty, 2017.
11. ^ "The Treasure of Ulysses Davis". Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Fine art. May fifteen, 2010. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
12. ^ "High Commissions Three New Photographers for "Picturing the Due south" Series" (Printing release). High Museum of Art. December 1, 2011. Archived from the original on Feb 2, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
13. ^ "Picturing New York - Picturing The South". High Museum of Art. Archived from the original on March 23, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
14. ^ "Fever Inside: The Art of Ronald Lockett". Retrieved January 6, 2019.
15. ^ "Thomas Struth: Nature and Politics". Retrieved January 6, 2019.
16. ^ "Cross State: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915–1950". Retrieved January 6, 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 Caput of Loftier Museum". The New York Times. May iv, 1991.
19. ^ ^{a b} Kennedy, Randy (Oct 29, 2014). "Director of Atlanta's High Museum to Step Down". The New York Times.
20. ^ Kennedy, Randy (July 29, 2015). "Atlanta'southward High Museum Names New Manager: Randall Suffolk". The New York Times.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Atlanta Art Association Flick from 1962

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Museum_of_Art

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