High Museum w/ Big Sky

The lawn and sculpture outside of the High Museum of Art on Peachtree St.

 The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States . Located in Atlanta 's Midtown arts and business district, the High has over 11,000 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 leading museum in the Southeastern United States, the High is dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major general museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art.