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Past Exhibitions


Exhibitions

Evolving Ideas

Oct. 2, 2010–Jan. 4, 2011

Visually evocative prints and related artwork are featured in an exhibition that explores American artists' innovative and unconventional printmaking techniques in the years during and just after World War II.

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British Landscape Prints

July 31, 2010–Nov. 2, 2010

Many of the greatest practitioners of landscape painting in Britain also were actively engaged in printmaking. "Picturesque to Pastoral" explores the graphic side of landscape in British art from the 18th through the 20th century.

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California Landscapes

May 15, 2010–Sept. 7, 2010

The landscape of California as depicted by a variety of 20th-century artists is highlighted in this small exhibition of paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, and photographs.

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The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs

May 22, 2010–Sept. 7, 2010

The first major exhibition on one of the most creative and enigmatic figures of the American Arts and Crafts movement comes to Southern California this summer.

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Child's Play

April 3, 2010–July 27, 2010

In the 19th century, with the work of Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, and others, children's fairy tales and nursery rhymes began to be widely published, documenting what was originally a rich oral tradition across western cultures.

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A Clash of Empires

April 25, 2010–July 26, 2010

Some 20 years before "the shot heard 'round the world" launched the American Revolution, a young Lt. Col. George Washington helped set a separate world conflict in motion.

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Drawn to Satire

Oct. 24, 2009–March 30, 2010

From 1903 to 1905, American artist John Sloan created 53 etchings to illustrate comic novels by French author Charles Paul de Kock.

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The Color Explosion

Oct. 17, 2009–Feb. 23, 2010

In the 19th century, color lithography created a communication revolution and brought art, literature, and music to the masses. The process had a dramatic impact on consumer culture...

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Central Avenue and Beyond

Oct. 24, 2009–Feb. 9, 2010

During the 1920s and '30s, the Harlem Renaissance brought about a flourishing of African American literature, art, music, and social commentary.

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The Golden Age in the Golden State

Dec. 5, 2009

During the nineteenth century, art of the Dutch Golden Age—roughly the seventeenth century—was the most sought by American collectors. Wealthy New Yorkers and Philadelphians vied for paintings, drawings and prints in the dealers' rooms and auction houses of Europe.