Atlanta's High Museum acquires Renoir paintings

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Atlanta's High Museum acquires Renoir paintings
October 29, 2009
USA Today

ATLANTA (AP) — The High Museum of Art has acquired 300 new works, including the museum's first paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir.

The Atlanta museum's collection will now include Woman Arranging Her Hat and Still-Life with Apples, both painted by the impressionist around 1890. Both paintings are already on display.

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Other acquisitions not on view yet include a painting by folk artist William Hawkins, a woodcut self-portrait by modern artist Chuck Close and a sculpture by Rodin.

The High has more than 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection, including an extensive exhibition of 19th- and 20th-century American art and a growing collection of African art. The museum more than doubled its display space in 2005 by opening three new buildings by architect Renzo Piano.
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