THE HIGH- HIGHLIGHTS TOUR: AMERICAN ART

Posted by Layla on December 14, 2012 in ART | Leave a comment

DECEMBER 14, 2012 @ 3:30 PM
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA

The American art collection at the High features significant works by renowned nineteenth- and twentieth-century American artists such as William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Henry Ossawa Tanner, John Twachtman, Marsden Hartley, and Andrew Wyeth. It includes landscapes by Hudson River School artists, figure paintings by Henry Inman and John Singer Sargent, and still-life paintings by John Frederick Peto, William Michael Harnett, and William Mason Brown. Recent acquisitions have focused on American painting and sculpture of the late nineteenth century as well as twentieth-century modernism with works by artists ranging from painters Benjamin West, Frederic Edwin Church, and John Singer Sargent and the sculptor Edmonia Lewis to such influential modernists as Joseph Stella, Georgia O’Keeffe, and John Marin, bringing the American collection to more than 1,000 objects.

PHOTOS:

Portrait of David Baldwin by Ralph Earl 1790 Oil on canvas.
Purchase in honor of Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr., President of the Board of Directors, 1984–1986, with funds from Alfred Austell Thornton in memory of Leila Austell Thornton and Albert Edward Thornton, Sr., and Sarah Miller Venable and William Hoyt Venable

Purissima by Joseph Stella 1927 Oil on Canvas.
Purchase with funds from Harriet and Elliott Goldstein and High Museum of Art Enhancement Fund

Portrait of Mrs. Morse and Two Children by Samuel F. B. Morse 1824 Oil on Canvas.
Gift of Sandra Morse Hamilton and Patricia Morse Sawyer in memory of Bleecker, Patricia, and Bleecker Morse, Jr., and through prior gift of Margaret and John L. Hoffman.

POSSE PHOTOS

Layla and Lia