From Gift to Gallery: A Curator’s Guide to Presenting 25 New Paintings

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, <a href="https://high.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">High Museum of Art</a> This past fall, the High Museum received an amazing surprise gift: twenty-five Impressionist and Post-Impressionist <a href="https://high.org/exhibition/shaheen-collection-of-impressionist-works/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">paintings from the collection of Doris and Shouky Shaheen</a>. 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). <a href="https://medium.com/high-museum-of-art/from-gift-to-gallery-a-curators-guide-to-presenting-25-new-paintings-57a23a6d0f59">Click Here</a>