High Museum of Art – Virtual Tour

The High Museum of Art is a leading art museum in the Southeastern United States, which was founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association. Today, the museum’s collection includes more than 17,000 artworks

Special exhibitions at the High feature strong global partnerships with other museums such as the Louvre and the museum is also a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.

The museum covers seven key collecting areas:

African Art – including masks and figurative sculptures, textiles, beadwork, metalwork, and ceramics
American Art – over 1,200 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints made by American artists between 1780 and 1980
Decorative Arts, and Design – including nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American decorative arts and a Collection of English Ceramics from 1640 to 1840
European Art – over 1,000 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper span the 1300s through the 1900s
Folk and Self-taught art – artworks by Southern and African American “self-taught” artists
Modern and Contemporary Art – traces the development of innovative visual languages since 1945
Photography – with 7,500 prints from the 1840s to the present, by from artists, entrepreneurs, journalists, and scientists

Twilight by Martin Johnson Heade, 1886 – High Museum of Art

Highlights of the High Museum of Art

Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil by Claude Monet, 1873
An Auguste Rodin sculpture The Shade, 1880-81
John Singer Sargent, Ralph Curtis on the Beach in Scheveningen, 1880
Arethusa’by Benjamin West, 1802
Portrait of a Boy in a Hunting Costume by Sir Peter Lely, c. 1675
Air, Light, and Wave by Arthur Bowen Davies, c. 1914-17
Apple Trees in a Meadow by Edward Mitchell Bannister, c. 1890
Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac by Il Baciccio, c. 1700
Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini, oil on panel, c. 1510
Sunset on the Coast by Alfred Thompson Bricher, 1885-95

Procession, Venice by Maurice Brazil Prendergast, 1899 – High Museum of Art

High Museum of Art

Museum: High Museum of Art
City: Atlanta
State: Georgia
Country: United States
Established: 1905
Category: Art Museum
Location: 1280 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta

‘Purissima’ by Joseph Stella, 1927 – High Museum of Art

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Photo Credit: Chris Yunker / CC BY-SA (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0); Martin Johnson Heade / Public domain; Maurice Prendergast / Public domain; Joseph Stella / Public domain