Take a behind-the-scenes look at how installations come together in the High Museum’s galleries.
By Claudia Einecke, Frances B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art, High Museum of Art
This past fall, the High Museum received an amazing surprise gift: twenty-five Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from the collection of Doris and Shouky Shaheen. Several of the artists in the group were newcomers to the Museum’s collection, notably Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani; others saw their numbers dramatically boosted — for example, Claude Monet (three new paintings, bringing the total to five) and Camille Pissarro (doubling the existing holdings to a total of six).