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| Dec 03, 2021
… In Memory of Jacqueline Avant We were so lucky to know Jacquie, a … E. Carter at a public conversation about C…
Unframed Blog
| Feb 19, 2018
… folding screen (or biombo ) depicting a fête galante (theme of the celebration of love). Blog Entry Date Mon, 02/…
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| Jan 31, 2022
… Say? Activist Graphics from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Since the mid-20th century, California has been…
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| Mar 21, 2011
… simple modernist architecture imbued with the character of its surroundings. Nature, urban spaces, the strength of…
Unframed Blog
| Apr 22, 2015
… Our New Casta Painting by Miguel Cabrera This week, as part of the museum’s 50th anniversary, we unveiled our new…
Unframed Blog
| Oct 04, 2018
… Through Open Space (detail), 2018, iPad painting, courtesy of the artist Ken Jacobs in Los Angeles: 3 Programs, 3…
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| Jan 18, 2018
… dialogue enriched the architecture and design of these two places, tracing the story fr Blog Entry Date … to…
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| Aug 06, 2012
… lived… They were very beautiful women . . . " —"Black Vulture" recounted by E.G. from Mulatupu “Picture … slowly A…
1969 | Black ink
2023. Driskell, David C. and Leonard Simon. Two Centuries of Black American Art. Los Angeles: Los ... Drawings Exhibition History: Two Centuries of Black American Art: 1750-1950 Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles ... <em>Charles White: a Retrospective</em>. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicage, 2018. Kim, Christine Y., and ...
1907-1918 | Oil on paper mounted on canvas
David C. and Leonard Simon. Two Centuries of Black American Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County ... Curatorial Area: American Art Classification: Paintings Exhibition History: Two Centuries of Black ... <em>Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting American Art in the Long Nineteenth Century</em>, edited ...
1921 | Oil on canvas
Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. <em>American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County ... Curator Notes: An American Oriental dates from the first years of du Bois’s mature period and ... <P>The early twentieth century witnessed the transformation of the United States into a modern ...
circa 1680-1690 | Oil on canvas
of the late seventeenth century in Mexico. The son of a famous Spanish surgeon and a freed black ... with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund Artwork ... woman, Correa was one of the few mixed race painters who achieved fame in his own day. (The art of ...
circa 1760 | Oil on canvas
1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici</EM>. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Mexico City: ... Collection</EM>. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2022. ... = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P> Curatorial Area: Latin American Art Classification: ...
1942 | Gouache on paper | On View
Curator Notes: In a century that equated the evolution of modern art with the will toward abstraction, ... subject of the mass migration of Black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began during ... provided by the Julius Bernard Kester Trust with additional support from American Art Council, Robert H. ...
1880-1883 | Oil on canvas
1880 Latest Date: 1883 Curator Notes: American art achieved cosmopolitan status in the decades ... of the 19th century and serves as a barometer of cultural taste. Rosenthal was one of the earliest ... popularity of the Scotsman’s writings with the middle-class reading public. Scotts’ influence on 19th-century ...
2018 | Two inkjet prints (pigment based)
Y., and Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews, editors. <em>Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles ... County Museum of Art</em>. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico ... Unavailable at this time Artwork Medium: Two inkjet prints (pigment based) Full Title: Wife and Mother ...
1876 | Oil on canvas
Museum of American Art, 1936. Kusserow, Karl, and Alan C. Braddock. <em>Nature's Nation: ... Art, 1988. Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. <em>American Art: a Catalogue of the Los ... Nineteenth-Century American Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Conrads, Margaret C. Winslow Homer And The ...
1959 | Black enamel on canvas | On View
Tomb</i> is one of about two dozen works by Frank Stella known as the Black Paintings (1958–60), which are ... Museum of Art, 1973. Richardson, Brenda. <em>Frank Stella: The Black Paintings</em>. ... composed of parallel bands of flat black paint separated by thin lines of unpainted canvas. To make these ...
1918 | Oil on canvas
<em>Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting American Art in the Long Nineteenth Century</em>, edited ... <em>American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection</em>. Los Angeles: ... Allies, Great Britain, 1918 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), in which Hassam depicted almost the ...
2017 | Synchronized double-sided film installation with shared soundtrack, 30 min. (loop)
<i>Flora</i>, a seamlessly synchronized two-channel video with sound, spotlights the life of Flora Mayo, ... an artist. A 1927 photo of the two artists together in Paris, flanking a portrait bust by Mayo of ... performed by actors and presented in black and white forms one half of <i>Flora</i>. The other ...
circa 1918 | Oil on panel
two wildly different sources are typical of the unusual routes by which American artists arrived at ... the beauty of the American landscape, and uniting both an interest in Asian art and in natural ... modernist abstract painting and nineteenth-century landscape painting. Thayer stands at the end of a great ...
2020 | Acrylic on canvas
Genealogy of Color</EM>. Madrid: Turner, 2019, pp. 104–115. Curatorial Area: Latin American Art ... Each scene portrays a family group with parents of different races and one or two of their children. ... Cabrera</a> (c. 1715–1768), of which LACMA recently acquired one of two the long-lost paintings.</P> ...
1937 | Screenprint
same year, the series was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, an unprecedented honor for an American ... While wealthy Americans had electrified their homes as early as the 1870s, much of the country remained ... contrasted these pictographs against flat two-color grounds, recalling Constructivist graphics in his use of ...
circa 1899 | Oil on canvas
works of art. American artists, generally trained abroad, often painted in styles that were ... Museum of Art, 1991. Curatorial Area: American Art Classification: Paintings Location Taxonomy: U.S. ... movements in light of his knowledge of anatomy. He posed two wrestlers in the Quaker City Athletic Club and ...
1931 | Egg tempera, watercolor, and ink on paper backed by canvas and Masonite
Artwork Inscription: Culture Made: Artwork Date(s): 1931 Artwork Credit Line: Gift of the American Art ... New York), and Why Not Use the "L"? 1930 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York)-- he ... <em>American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection</em>. Los Angeles: ...
late 6th century B.C. | Black-figure ceramic with added red and white
continued to be dominant until the beginning of the fifth century B.C. This neck-amphora was produced around ... affectionate- on either side of the vase encourages a juxtaposition of the two scenes. Just as Herakles survives ... Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens</em> 24, no.1 (1955): 1-24. Hopkins, ...
2017 | Projected channel HD video with 2 channel stereo sound, 21:44 minutes looped, with architectural plans by architect Michael Maltzan for the Catherine Theater.
issues like natural disasters, the breakdown of the American political system, global tragedies, and the ... appeared in many of her photographs—as a struggling artist who is obsessed with landmark mid-century modern ... <br> <br> Composed of over 800 still black and white images, the film unfolds with swift pacing. ...
circa 470-460 B.C. | Red-figure ceramic with a trace of added red
and fourth centuries B.C The vase is decorated with two scenes of divine repose and interaction. On ... invented in Athens in the last quarter of the sixth century B.C., is essentially the reverse of ... black-figure. Rather than painting the figures and ornament onto the plain surface of the vase, their forms are ...