High Museum of Art receives Henry Church sculpture from Forward Arts Foundation
(Artdaily.org)

Rand Suffolk, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., director of the High Museum of Art, announced today that the Forward Arts Foundation has enabled the important acquisition of the Henry Church, Jr., masterpiece “A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed” (1888). The Forward Arts Foundation made this generous gift in celebration of its 50th anniversary and to highlight 50 years of supporting the Museum’s growth via acquisitions and investments in programming. The Foundation purchased Church’s work from Atlanta collectors Carl and Marian Mullis, and it will feature prominently in the reinstallation of the High’s folk and self-taught art collection galleries, set to debut in October 2018. “We are incredibly grateful to the Forward Arts Foundation for its generosity, which allows us to bring this one-of-a-kind work into our collection,” said Suffolk. “We’re thrilled that this extraordinary object will re