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AMERICAN SCULPTURE
For details of the Top 40
3-D artists in America, see:
American Sculptors (1850-present)
JEWISH ART
For an outstanding collection of
Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Oriental
Judaica, crafts and artifacts,
see: Jewish Art Museum.
VISUAL ARTS OF ISLAM
For a list of the world's greatest
libraries and museum collections
of Muslim culture, see:
Museums of Islamic Art.
WORLD'S BEST ART
For a list of the finest works of
painting and sculpture, by the
world's most famous artists, see:
Greatest Paintings Ever
Oils, watercolours, mixed media
from 1300-present.
Greatest Sculptures Ever
Works in stone, bronze, wood
from 33,000 BCE-present.
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Many of the collections can be viewed on
curator-led tours, and you can also meander through the 134,000 square-foot
garden. The massive complex also has a special Family Room, gallery games,
and weekend family workshops, as well as computers, picture books, and
self-guided audio tours designed specifically for families. It also has
a full range of eating facilities.
Museum Highlights
Among the finest works of art at the Getty
Center are:
• Irises (1889) by Vincent
Van Gogh.
• Arii Matamoe (1892) by Paul Gauguin.
• View of the Grand Canal Santa Maria del Salute (1740) by
Bernardo Bellotto.
• Portrait of a Halberdier (1528-1530) by Pontormo.
• Fishermen in a Venetian Lagoon (1490-1500) by Vittorio Carpaccio.
• Abduction of Europa by Jupiter (1636) by Rembrandt.
• A Walk at Dusk (1835) by Caspar David Friedrich.
• Portrait of Albert Cahen d'Anvers (1881) by Edouard Manet.
• Wheatstack (1890) by Claude Monet.
• Starry Night (1893) by Edvard Munch.
• Gabriel Bernard de Rieux (1720, pastel) by Maurice Quentin
de la Tour.
• Waiting (1882, pastel) by Edgar Degas.
• Portrait of Louis XIV (after 1701) by the workshop of Hyacinthe
Rigaud.
Permanent Collection
The North Pavilion contains a fascinating
display of 15th century glass objects; a diverse range of illuminated
manuscripts of German, French, Italian and British origin - mostly derived
from the renowned Louis Collection from Aachen; Italian
Renaissance art, mostly religious paintings, including a huge altarpiece
by Bartolomeo Vivarini, as well as an exquisite Venus & Adonis
from Titian's workshop.
The East Pavilion has a rich display
of Flemish and Dutch
Realist artists. Highlights include The Entombment and other
works by Rubens; Christ Crowned with Thorns, by Gerrit van Honthorst;
Astronomer by Candlelight, by Gerrit Dou; two Flemish paintings
from the Rogier van der Weyden school; as well as genre-works by Jan Steen,
landscapes by Jacob Ruysdael, and others.
The South Pavilion ground floor
contains a magnificent collection of French decorative
art from the 17th and 18th centuries. First floor highlights include
two paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, Baronne de Domecy by Odilon
Redon, and numerous enchanting pastels
and watercolour paintings.
The West Pavilion ground floor is
devoted to European sculpture plus decorative arts spanning the late-18th
and 19th centuries, as well as items from the drawing
collection. The latter features works by Albrecht Durer, Hans Baldung,
Raphael, del Sarto, Paolo Veronese, Rembrandt, Rubens, Nicolas Poussin
and Jean-Antoine Watteau. Upstairs is a display of 19th century paintings,
including Van Tromp, Going About to Please His Masters by JMW Turner;
several Impressionist canvases by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar
Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec; a still life by Paul Cezanne; Portrait
of Albert Cahen d'Anvers by Edouard Manet; Arii Matamoe by
Paul Gauguin; and Van Gogh's Irises.
The West Pavilion is also home to the museum's
American and European collection of fine
art photography. This features numerous original prints dating from
1841, as well as others from the 19th century. Modern and contemporary
lens-based artists are also well represented, including Man Ray, Imogene
Cunningham, Walker Evans and the German photographer August Sander.
Sculpture
The museum's collection of sculpture, dating
from 2,500 BCE - including statues, reliefs and small-scale figurines
- features numerous Greek and Roman sculptures in terracotta and marble,
including the life-size marble figure of Hercules (c.150 CE), as
well as masterpieces by the Italian Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith
Piero Jacopo Antico, the Mannerist sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, the Baroque
genius Bernini, and the French 19th century naturalist Auguste Rodin.
There are a number of modern pieces, including works by Joan Miro and
Henry Moore. Many of these can be viewed in the sculpture gardens located
by the main entrance and by the West Pavilion.
Contact Details
J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1000
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1687
Tel: (310) 440-7300
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