African Art

Permanent event at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, United States

27 May 2017

African Art. Courtesy of High musuem of art

With a curatorial department devoted solely to African art since 2001, and a curatorial position endowed by Fred and Rita Richman, the High's collection has grown to encompass the dynamic diversity of African art forms from ancient to contemporary.

The heart of the collection includes sculptures from west and central Africa created between 1850 and 1950, including a Baga sculpture from Guinea gifted in 1953 by Helena Rubenstein.

Other significant gifts include more than 450 works from Fred and Rita Richman that form the core of the African collection. Major gifts from Dr. Bernard and Patricia Wagner starting in 2005 spotlight Yoruba art, including masks, figurative sculpture, beadwork, metalwork and ceramic arts.

High Museum of Art

With more than 15,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High has an extensive anthology of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and decorative art; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography, folk and self taught art, and African art.

Museum profile

Location

Atlanta, United States

Founded in

1949