A striking young woman—with loose, untied hair and sleeves and a richly jeweled but informal gown—returns the viewer’s gaze. In her time, a viewer would have seen her as being in a state of semiundress.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969: 117. 1970 Lane, Barbara G.
Painted in October 1909, the remarkably expressive and dynamic Both Members of This Club is the third and largest of George Bellows’s early prizefighting subjects. The painting’s title is a reference to the practice in private athletic clubs of introducing the contestants to the audience as “both members� to circumvent the Lewis Law of 1900 that had banned public boxing matches in New York State.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Columbus
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2003-2004, no cat.
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 47, repro. 1990 The Fauve Landscape, Los
In 1632 Anthony van Dyck was invited to England to work at the court of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. In Van Dyck, the royal couple and the English aristocracy found an artist whose gifts perfectly matched their artistic sensitivities as well as their political needs and aspirations.
reel 124; accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los
Los Angeles, 2006: 26 fig. 21.
entry on page 17 of Commission Book 4, Knoedler Records, Getty Research Institute, Los
Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1971, starting with Los Angeles
Vija Celmins creates photorealistic drawings and paintings of the natural world. Her detailed, meditative images of subjects such as ocean waves or stars in the sky are often rendered in gray, black, and white.
Celmins earned her master’s degree in art from the University of California, Los
