The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has added 361 artworks and objects to its collection in 2025. The acquisitions are part of a strategic plan to grow its holdings, now numbering over 20,000 objects, ahead of the museum’s centennial next year.

“As we look ahead to our centennial in 2026, our curators have strategically acquired artworks that not only support where we’ve traditionally built strengths as an institution but that also signal where we’re heading in the next 100 years,” High Museum director Rand Suffolk said in a statement. “They bolster what’s uniquely special about our existing holdings and also bridge gaps in our collecting to foster audience growth and engagement.”

The highest-profile of these is Jacob Lawrence’s 1943 watercolor Night (And then they go to sleep) from the artist’s “Harlem” series. The early work was recently rediscovered and was only exhibited once, in 1943. For its European art department, the High also acquired its third painting by Henri Matisse, 1900’s Homme assis (Seated Man).

Several of the acquisitions are already on view at the museum, including Simone Leigh’s Cupboard (2024) in the modern and contemporary art galleries and Ngozi-Omeje Ezema’s Toget...