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    • With its renowned collection of classic and contemporary art and award-winning architecture by Richard Meier and Renzo Piano, the High Museum of Art has grown from its origins in a stately home on Peachtree Street to become the leading art museum in the southeastern United States.

    History of the High

    High Museum of Art Overview
    • Birdman, Atlanta, 2008
    • Blue Truck Bed, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 2000
    • Camel Bubbles, Atlanta, 2006
    • Daddy Z’s, Atlanta, 2009
    • Midway In The Rain
    • MM Worcester
    • Naked Bench
    • Red Wall Tree Shadow
    • White On White
     
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    High Museum of Art Overview

    The High Museum of Art is the leading art museum in the southeastern United States. Located in Midtown Atlanta's arts and business district, the High has more than 13,000 works of art in its permanent collection. The Museum has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American art; significant holdings of European paintings and decorative art; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art.

    2012-2013 Board of Directors

    Louise Sams, Chair of the Board of Directors

    Charles L. Abney III
    Spring Asher
    Alton Adams
    Radcliffe Bailey
    Dan Baldwin
    William N. Banks, Jr.
    Elizabeth Barnett
    Tom Bell
    Carey Benham
    Jane C. Black
    Daniel W. Boone III
    Ronald M. Brill
    Lucinda W. Bunnen
    Frances B. Bunzl
    Jack Capers
    Hon. Anne Cox Chambers
    Bert Clark
    Jacqueline F. Clark
    Grady S. Clinkscales, Jr.
    Thomas G. Cousins
    Cheryl Crawford

    Charlene Crusoe-Ingram
    Richard A. Denny, Jr.
    Monica Dioda
    Jerome Dobson
    Marcia Donnell
    Scott C. Dozier
    David Driskell
    Brooke J. Edmond
    Howard Elkins
    Peggy Foreman
    Rawson Foreman
    Charlotte R. Garson
    M. Anthony Greene
    Helen Griffith
    Norvin C. Hagan
    T. Marshall Hahn, Jr.
    Marge Harvey
    Sara Hehir
    James L. Henderson III
    R. Glenn Hilliard
    Jack K. Holland

    Robin R. Howell
    Fay Howell
    Karen Hughes
    Bahman M. Irvani
    Jane Jackson
    West Johnson
    Derek Johnston
    Baxter Jones
    Walter E. Jospin
    Sarah Kennedy
    Donald R. Keough
    Michael Keough
    Renee Brody Levow
    Bertram L. Levy
    Jada Loveless
    Willis E. Lowe III
    Tim Mapes
    Joan Marmo
    Lorri McClain
    Merry McCleary
    Sally S. McDaniel

    Anna Mershon
    James H. Morgens
    Pratap C. Mukharji
    Vir Nanda
    Eliza Kraft Olander
    Valerie Cannon O'Neal
    Sanford H. Orkin
    Judith L. Ottley
    Richard C. Parker
    Jarel Portman
    Catherine Rawson
    Douglas F. Reid
    Arthur H. Richardson
    Fred Richman
    Helen B. Rieser
    J. Mack Robinson
    Sidney P. Rodbell
    Ruth Rollins
    Michael J. Russell
    D. Jack Sawyer, Jr.
    Henry C. Schwob

    Sharon Newell Shirley
    John Shlesinger
    John W. Spiegel
    Howard S. Stein
    Paul N. Steinfeld
    F. Terry Stent
    Chelton D. Tanger
    Amanda Taylor
    Mark K. Taylor
    Rebecca Dial Warner
    Harriet Warren
    Terry R. Weiss
    Marjorie West
    Joan N. Whitcomb
    John F. Wieland
    Loraine Williams
    Elizabeth Willett
    Diane L. Wisebram