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Photos: High Museum 2014 acquisitions
The High Museum of Art has added more than 600 works in fiscal 2014. Take a look at a few of those acquisitions, including pieces by a trio of highly regarded Southern-born artists: Romare Bearden, Jasper Johns and William Christenberry.
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Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), Profile/Part II, The Thirties: Artist with Painting and Model, 1981, collage on fiberboard, 44 × 56 inches. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase 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, Margaret and Terry Stent Endowment for the Acquisition of American Art, David C. Driskell African American Art Acquisition Fund, Spray Foundation, Inc., Dr. Henrie M. Treadwell, Margaret and Scott Greene, Sarah Kenan Kennedy, Howard and Helen Elkins, Alton Adams, and gift to honor Howard Elkins from the Docents of the High Museum of Art, 2014.66.
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