![]() The extensive South Asian sculpture collection illustrates the splendid sculptural traditions of the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. It contains European and American art from before the Renaissance through the twentieth century, including works by Raphael, Rembrandt, Tiepolo, Goya, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Pablo Picasso, among many others. 2 (2009), Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best (2010), and Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California (2011).The Norton Simon Museum’s collection spans two thousand years of Western and Asian art. Editions include The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum (2002), the three-volume Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum (2003-2004), The Collectible Moment: Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum (2006), Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum (volume I) (2006), Degas in the Norton Simon Museum: Nineteenth-Century Art, Vol. The Norton Simon Art Foundation actively produces scholarly publications focused on segments of the collections on view at the Museum. Private tours are available by reservation. To extend the impact of these exhibitions and to explore genres and themes within the permanent collection, the Museum offers six to ten free public programs per month, including scholarly lectures and symposia, adult education courses, music and dance performances and hands-on activities for children. There are two temporary exhibition spaces within the Museum the curatorial department mounts three to five exhibitions centered on the collection, and one special masterpiece loan, per year. Highlights from the PAM collection include the Galka Scheyer Blue Four Collection, a body of works by artists Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Alexei Jawlensky, Vasily Kandinsky and others assembled by art dealer, scholar and muse Galka Scheyer post-war American art, particularly from Southern California-based artists including John Altoon, Larry Bell, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Richard Diebenkorn, Llyn Foulkes, Sam Francis, George Herms, Robert Irwin, and Ed Ruscha and a photography collection comprised of works by Ansel Adams, Lewis Baltz, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Imogen Cunningham, Frederick Sommer, Edward Weston, and Minor White, among others.Īrtwork in the museumApproximately 1,000 works from the permanent collection of 12,000 objects are on view in the Norton Simon Museum’s galleries and sculpture garden throughout the year. ![]() In 1974, Norton Simon and a reorganized Board of Trustees assumed control of the Pasadena Art Museum, taking up management of its building and incorporating its important collection of 20th-century European and American art with the outstanding collections of the Norton Simon foundations. 1000, India: Tamil Nadu and the gilt bronze Indra, 13th century, Nepal. 550, India: Bihar, Gupta period, and Shiva as King of Dance, c. Highlights from the Asian collection include the bronze sculptures Buddha Shakyamuni, c. 1655-60, by Rembrandt van Rijn Mulberry Tree, 1889, by Vincent van Gogh Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878-81, by Edgar Degas and Woman with a Book, 1932, by Pablo Picasso. 1502-03, by Raphael Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633, by Francisco de Zurbarán Portrait of a Boy, c. Among the most celebrated works he collected are Branchini Madonna, 1427, by Giovanni di Paolo Madonna and Child with Book, c. Over a thirty-year period 20th-century industrialist Norton Simon (1907–1993) amassed an astonishing collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years. The Norton Simon Museum is known around the world as one of the most remarkable private art collections ever assembled.
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