Collections consist of more than 15,000 pieces and include 19th and 20th century American and decorative art, significant European pieces, modern and contemporary art, photography, African art and folk art. The High also collects works by Southern artists.
Award-winning architecture by Richard Meier (1983) and Renzo Piano (2005).
In collaboration with artists and designers, the High Museum has developed interactive and immersive installations for the campus’s central Sifly Piazza each summer since 2014. These installations, which are freely accessible to the public, aim to make the campus more open and welcoming to the community.
Read our Art Things Considered blog article about the High Museum of Art here.
French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Nearly seventy works by more than thirty-five international artists
From the High Museum’s collection, artworks made exclusively by women
Paintings and works on paper spanning a brief but prolific career
Juxtapositions of works, unified conceptually by their engagement with grids
Follow Rodin’s rise to eminence in the United States
100 original line drawings, sketches, and finished illustrations, from sixteen of his picture books