Hammer Presents Its Impressive Collection of European and American Art
The Hammer Museum at UCLA offers collections, exhibitions, and programs that span the classic to the contemporary in art, architecture, and design. The Hammer’s international exhibition program focuses on wide-ranging thematic and monographic exhibitions, highlighting contemporary art since the 1960s and the work of emerging artists through Hammer Projects and the Hammer’s biennial, Made in L.A. As a cultural center, the Hammer Museum offers nearly 300 free public programs a year, including lectures, readings, symposia, film screenings, and music performances.
"An ongoing exhibition at the Hammer Museum presents its remarkable holdings of European and American artworks and provides an impressive overview of the major movements of the nineteenth-century French art.
Featuring works from the 16th through the 20th century of the 'Armand Hammer Collection,' the exhibit reflects the interest and passion of the museum's founder, Armand Hammer. The artworks on display present a small but remarkable group of sculptures, paintings, drawings, and other works on paper, that underline 19th century French Art.
Armand Hammer’s entrepreneurial brilliance, matched by his artistic acumen, enabled him to dedicate and continue with his art collecting passion throughout life. This permanent collection exhibition provides a peek into the exceptional richness of European art that persisted during the Renaissance and continued to grow through the early twentieth century. The exhibit also displays remarkable works by American artists from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The collection, which features works by notable artists, such as Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Gustave Moreau, Camille Pissarro, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, throws light into significant examples of art depicting realism, orientalism, the Barbizon school, impressionism, post-impressionism, pointillism, and symbolism. Portraiture and landscape art also feature prominently in the selection.
European old master paintings include two major works by Rembrandt van Rijn — "Portrait of a Man Holding a Black Hat" (ca. 1637) and "Juno" (ca. 1662–65). Paintings by Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Francisco de Goya y Lucientes are also on display at the exhibit."— Jan. 4, 2018
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