The High received its first major art donation in 1949 from J. J. Haverty, an early Museum patron and Atlanta’s foremost art collector at the time. Haverty bequeathed a group of significant late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American paintings by William Merritt Chase, Henry Ossawa Tanner, John Twachtman, and Childe Hassam as well as a select group of sculptures. This formative gift created a strong base for subsequent additions of American art to the Museum’s collection.

The High received its first major art donation in 1949 from J. J. Haverty, an early Museum patron and Atlanta’s foremost art collector at the time. Haverty bequeathed a group of significant late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American paintings by William Merritt Chase, Henry Ossawa Tanner, John Twachtman, and Childe Hassam as well as a select group of sculptures. This formative gift created a strong base for subsequent additions of American art to the Museum’s collection.