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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 12,000 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.

    2011-2012 Board of Directors

    Louise Sams, Chair of the Board of Directors

    Charles L. Abney III
    Alton Adams
    Spring Asher
    William B. Astrop
    Radcliffe Bailey
    Dan Baldwin
    William N. Banks, Jr.
    Elizabeth Hale Barnett
    Carey Benham
    Jane C. Black
    Daniel W. Boone III
    Grant Boyd
    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 H. Deane, Jr.
    Richard A. Denny, Jr.
    Monica Dioda
    Marcia Donnell
    Scott C. Dozier
    David Driskell
    Peggy Foreman
    Rawson Foreman
    Charlotte R. Garson
    Nancy H. Green
    M. Anthony Greene
    Helen Candler Griffith
    Norvin C. Hagan
    T. Marshall Hahn, Jr.
    James L. Henderson III
    Benjamin A. Hill
    R. Glenn Hilliard
    Jack K. Holland
    Fay Howell

    Robin R. Howell
    Karen Hughes
    Bahman M. Irvani
    West Johnson
    Derek Johnston
    Baxter Jones
    Sarah Kenan Kennedy
    Donald R. Keough
    Michael Keough
    Jane Lanier
    Matthew H. Levin
    Elaine L. Levin
    Renee Brody Levow
    Bertram L. Levy
    Michael L. Lomax
    Richard A. Long
    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
    Margaret B. Perdue
    Jarel Portman
    Catherine Rawson
    Douglas F. Reid
    Arthur H. Richardson
    Fred Richman
    Helen Brody Rieser
    J. Mack Robinson
    Sidney P. Rodbell
    Ruth Rollins
    Michael J. Russell

    D. Jack Sawyer, Jr.
    Henry C. Schwob
    M. Alexis Scott
    Sharon Newell Shirley
    John Shlesinger
    John W. Spiegel
    Howard S. Stein
    Paul N. Steinfeld
    F. Terry Stent
    Chelton D. Tanger
    Mark K. Taylor
    Henrie M. Treadwell
    Glenn Verrill
    Rebecca Dial Warner
    Terry R. Weiss
    Marjorie West
    Joan N. Whitcomb
    John F. Wieland
    Loraine Williams
    Diane L. Wisebram