Finding aid for the J. Paul Getty Museum Exhibition Design Records, 1991-2006 (bulk 1997-2005)

Finding aid prepared by Lauren Jordan


Descriptive Summary

Title: J. Paul Getty Museum Exhibition Design Records
Date (inclusive): 1991-2006 (bulk 1997-2005)
Number: IA30013
Creator/Collector: J. Paul Getty Museum. Exhibition Design
Physical Description: 13.8 linear feet (25 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Institutional Records and Archives
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
archives@getty.edu
Abstract: Records consist of design plans, gallery and promotional graphics, material samples, slides, photographs, and administrative materials created and maintained by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, dating from 1991 through 2006 (bulk 1997-2005). The records include exhibition planning materials and a slide show/presentation about design at the Getty Center.
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Language: Collection material is in English

Administrative History

The J. Paul Getty Museum was established as a charitable trust in 1953 by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty in order to house his growing art collections, with his original Museum opening in 1954. Upon Getty's death in 1976 he bequeathed almost his entire estate to the Museum with a mission to promote "the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge." Today the J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic organization serving both general audiences and specialized professionals. The Trust is a not-for-profit institution, educational in purpose and character, that focuses on the visual arts in all of their dimensions. As of 2014 the Trust supports and oversees four programs: the Getty Foundation, the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Research Institute, and J. Paul Getty Museum. The Museum serves a wide variety of audiences through its expanded range of exhibitions and programming in the visual arts from two locations in the Los Angeles area: the Getty Villa near Malibu and the Getty Center in Brentwood.
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Center, which opened to the public in 1997, houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs. The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa underwent extensive renovation and expansion from 1997-2006 and reopened to the public on January 28, 2006. The Villa houses works of art from the Museum's collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities. The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to further knowledge of the visual arts by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of the highest quality. The Center and the Villa serve diverse audiences through the Museum's permanent collection, changing exhibitions, conservation, scholarship, research, and public programs.
"The Exhibition Design Department is a multidisciplinary group, including interior design, graphic design, industrial design, and architecture. Designers work in small teams with varied assignments that include planning and design of special exhibitions and permanent installations: interior architecture, space planning, lighting, furnishings, fixtures, showcases, pedestals, environmental graphics, color, interpretive materials, interactive exhibits, media production, print graphics, site mapping, and wayfinding signage for gallery and public spaces. The group is responsible for work at the Getty Center and the Villa, supporting 25-30 exhibitions each year." - from AIGA "Going to the Getty" mailer (1999)
At the time of records creation Irene Martín was Exhibitions Manager, Merritt Price was Exhibition Design Manager, and Ann Marshall was Exhibition Designer.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Access

The following types of records are permanently closed: records containing personal information, records that compromise security or operations, legal communications, legal work product, and records related to donors. The J. Paul Getty Trust reserves the right to restrict access to any records held by the Institutional Archives.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Materials were transferred by Merritt Price, Head of Museum Exhibition Design, in September 2013.

Processing Information note

The collection was minimally processed and the finding aid created by Lauren Jordan in 2014. The materials were transferred from three-ring binders to archival folders; the large number of oversized papers were kept in the folded condition in which they arrived, since trying to separate and flatten them would have made it extremely difficult to preserve their context. The eight carousels' worth of slides were transferred to archival sleeves.

Scope and Content of Collection

The records consist of design plans, gallery and promotional graphics, paint and material samples, slides, photographs, and administrative materials created and maintained by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, dating from 1991 through 2006 (bulk 1997-2005). Getty Center exhibition design records cover the physical design of exhibitions (not the featured artwork), including their layout, paint and material samples and colors, signage, graphics, and audio-visual elements. The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) lecture slides are from a presentation given by Merritt Price, Exhibition Design Manager, and Dennie Yudell, Publications Design Manager for the J. Paul Getty Trust, that focused on design at the Getty. They not only cover book and exhibition design, but also design elements found throughout the Center including signage, the gardens, and merchandise. The materials were compiled by the staff of the Exhibition Design department.

Organization

The collection is organized into two series:
Series I. Getty Center exhibition design records, 1991-2006 (bulk 1997-2005);
Series II. American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) lecture slides, 1999.

Indexing Terms

Subjects - Corporate Bodies

J. Paul Getty Museum. Exhibition Design

Subjects - Topics

Exhibitions--Design
Museum exhibits

Contributors

Price, Merritt


 

Series I. Getty Center exhibition design records, Bulk, 1997-2005 1991-2006 (bulk 1997-2005)

Physical Description: 10.8 linear feet (22 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of design plans, gallery and promotional graphics, paint and material samples, and administrative materials created and maintained by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department between 1991 and 2006 (bulk 1997-2005). The materials do not cover the content of exhibitions, but focus on the presentation of that content: paint colors, signage, graphics, audio-visual elements, etc. The majority of the materials are not individually dated, so they are arranged by the opening date of the exhibition to which they correspond; those regarding the Getty Center construction exhibition and the Center's opening Antiquities exhibition also contain administrative records, memoranda, and correspondence, which do have dates.

Arrangement note

The records are organized into eleven subseries:
Materials were transferred directly from three-ring binders; contents were kept in order and in the state in which they were received. For series I.A.-I.I. the documentation in the binders was arranged by the department responsible for the exhibition or by exhibition space; the binders that became series I.J. and I.K. did not have any overarching organizational schema.
 

Series I.A. Special exhibitions documentation, 1997-2005

Physical Description: 4.6 linear feet (9 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of gallery and promotional graphics, design plans, paint and material samples, and administrative materials created and assembled by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, for Special exhibitions between 1997 and 2005.

Arrangement note

Materials were maintained in original order. The creator had arranged the materials chronologically, with each exhibition receiving its own three-ring binder(s). The exhibitions were numbered by the originating department/creator.
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1. Beyond Beauty: Antiquities as Evidence, 1997

Physical Description: (9 folders)
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2. Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in the Renaissance Ferrara, 1999

Physical Description: (6 folders)
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3. Sarah Siddons and Her Portraits, 1999

Physical Description: (4 folders)
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4. Adriaen de Vries: Imperial Sculptor, 1999

Physical Description: (3 folders)
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5. Departures: Artists at the Getty, 1999

Physical Description: (3 folders)
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6. Painting on Light: Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and Holbein, 2000

Physical Description: (4 folders)
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7. Raphael and his Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle, 2000

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8. Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937, 2001

Physical Description: (2 folders)
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9. The American Tradition and Walker Evans: Photographs from the Getty Collection, 2001

Physical Description: (2 folders)
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10. Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, 2001

Physical Description: (4 folders)
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11. The Sacred Spaces of Pieter Saenredam, 2002

Physical Description: (2 folders, includes 2 CD-ROMs)
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12. Greuze at the Getty, 2002

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13. Bill Viola: The Passions, 2003

Physical Description: (2 folders)
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14. Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, 2003

Physical Description: (2 folders)
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15. Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment, 2003

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16. Photographers of Genius at the Getty 2004

Physical Description: (2 folders)
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17. Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past, 2004

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Administrative, 2004

Physical Description: (3 folders, includes 4 CD-ROMs)
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Drawings, 2004

Physical Description: (2 folders)
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18. Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile, 2005

Physical Description: (2 folders)
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19. Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits 2005

Physical Description: (2 folders, includes CD-ROM)
 

Series I.B. Manuscript exhibitions documentation, 1997-2006

Physical Description: 0.6 linear feet (1 box)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of gallery and promotional graphics, design plans, paint and material samples, and administrative materials created and assembled by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, for Manuscript exhibitions between 1997 and 2006.

Arrangement note

Materials were maintained in original order. The creator had arranged the materials chronologically by exhibition in two three-ring binders.
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Volume 1, 1997-2001

Physical Description: (3 folders)

General note

The tab for the exhibition Flemish Illumination of the Late Middle Ages contains no corresponding materials.
 

Artful Reading in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 2001

 

Armenian Gospels of Gladzor, 2001

 

Illuminating Color, 2001

 

Ritual Splendor, 2001

 

The Art of Giving in the Middle Ages, 2000

 

The Queen of the Angels, 2000

 

The Gualenghi-d'Este Hours: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara, 2000

 

The Psalms and Their Illustration, 2000

 

Art and Science, 1999

 

French Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages, 1999

 

Picturing the Medieval Family, 1999

 

Faces of Power and Piety: Portraits in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, 1999

 

Flemish Illumination of the Late Middle Ages, 1998

 

Ten Centuries of Manuscript Illumination in Germany and Central Europe, 1998

 

Out-Of-Bounds: Marginal Imagery in Illuminated Manuscripts, 1998

 

Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Illumination, 1997

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Volume 2, 2002-2005

Physical Description: (4 folders)
 

A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII, 2005

 

Shrine and Shroud: Textiles in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2005

 

Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian Manuscripts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 2005

 

Images of Violence in the Medieval World, 2004

Physical Description: (includes CD-ROM)
 

Byzantium and the West, 2004

 

Fit for a King: Courtly Manuscripts, 1380-1450, 2004

 

Seeking Illumination: Monastic Manuscripts, 800-1200, 2004

 

Glory of the Gothic Page, 2003

 

Transforming Tradition: Ancient Motifs in in Medieval Manuscripts, 2003

 

Picturing the Natural World, 2003

 

Five Hundred Years of Manuscript Illumination, 2003

 

The Medieval Bestseller: Illuminated Books of Hours, 2002

 

Songs of Praise: Illuminated Choir Books, 2002

 

A Treasury of 15th-Century Manuscript Illumination, 2002

 

Series I.C. Drawing exhibitions documentation, 1997-2005

Physical Description: 0.6 linear feet (1 box)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of gallery and promotional graphics, design plans, paint and material samples, and administrative materials created and assembled by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, for Drawing exhibitions between 1997 and 2005.

Arrangement note

Materials were maintained in original order. The creator had arranged the materials chronologically by exhibition in three three-ring binders.
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Volume 1, 1997-2000

Physical Description: (2 folders)

General note

There is a tab for the exhibition Landscape Drawing (1998), but no corresponding materials.
 

Raphael and His Influence Across the Centuries, 2000

 

Peter Paul Rubens: The Art of Drawing in Flanders, 2000

 

German and Swiss Drawings from the Permanent Collection, 2000

 

Carmontelle's Transparency: An 18th Century Motion Picture, 2000

 

The Body Beautiful: Artists Draw the Nude, 1999

 

Juanes to Goya: Spanish Drawings, 1560-1825, 1999

 

Taddeo Zuccaro: An Artist's Life in Renaissance Rome, 1999

 

Red Chalk Drawings, 1999

 

Two Centuries of Drawings from Bologna, 1998

 

Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe, 1998

 

Color in Drawings, 1998

 

Master Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997

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Volume 2, 2001-2002

Physical Description: (2 folders)
 

Mise-en-Page: The Art of Composing on Paper, 2002

 

French Drawings in the Age of Greuze, 2002

 

Dutch Drawings of the Golden Age, 2002

 

Drawing Italy in the Age of the Grand Tour, 2002

 

Posing for Posterity: Portrait Drawings from the Collection, 2001

 

Work and Play: Everyday Life in Drawings, 2001

 

To Create a Living Art: Nineteenth-Century Drawings, 2001

 

Drawing the Landscape, 2001

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Volume 3, 2003-2005

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

Drawings from Leonardo to Titian: A North Italian Itinerary, 2005

 

Paper Art: Collecting Drawings in Holland, 1600-1800, 2005

 

Light and Water: Drawing in Eighteenth-Century Venice, 2005

 

A Revolutionary Age: Drawing in Europe, 1770-1820, 2005

 

The Prismatic Palette: Four Centuries of Watercolors, 2004

 

Visions of Grandeur, 2004

 

Window onto Spain: Drawings and Prints from Ribera to Goya, 2004

Physical Description: (includes 2 CD-ROMs)
 

Casting Characters: Portraits and Studies of Heads, 2003

 

Michelangelo to Vasari: Drawing the Figure in Renaissance Florence, 2003

 

Between Heaven and Earth: Images of Christ and the Virgin, 2003

 

Series I.D. Miscellaneous spaces exhibitions documentation, 1999-2004

Physical Description: 1.0 linear foot (2 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of gallery and promotional graphics, design plans, paint and material samples, and administrative materials created and assembled by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, for Miscellaneous spaces exhibitions between FY 1999 and FY 2004.

Arrangement note

Materials were maintained in original order. The creator had arranged the materials chronologically by exhibition in three-ring binders: two volumes for Miscellaneous spaces; two volumes for West pavilion, level L2; and one volume for South Pavilion, S101.
 

Miscellaneous spaces:

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Volume 1, 2001-2003

Physical Description: (4 folders)
 

Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art, 2003

 

A Royal Menagerie: Porcelain Animals from Dresden, 2001

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Volume 2, 2006

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden, 2006

Physical Description: (includes 2 CD-ROMs)
 

West pavilion, level L2:

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Volume 1, 1999

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

Ancient Art from the Permanent Collection, 1999

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Volume 2, 1997-2004

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

Construction Sights: Photographs of the Getty Villa by Richard Ross, 2004

Physical Description: (includes zip disk)
 

Statue of an Emperor, 2000

 

Digital Experience, 1997

 

South Pavilion, S101:

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Volume 1, 2003

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered, 2005

 

The Making of Furniture, 2003

Physical Description: (includes CD-ROM)
 

Series I.E. Photography exhibitions documentation, 1998-2005

Physical Description: 1.0 linear foot (2 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of gallery and promotional graphics, design plans, paint and material samples, administrative materials created and assembled by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, for Photography exhibitions between FY 2000 and FY 2006.

Arrangement note

Materials were maintained in original order. The creator had arranged the materials chronologically by exhibition in four three-ring binders.
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Volume 1, 1998-1999

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

William Eggleston and the Color Tradition, 1999

 

Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York, 1999

 

Brassaï: The Eye of Paris, 1999

 

Edgar Degas: Photographer, 1999

 

Man Ray: Practical Dreamer, 1999

 

The Art of the Daguerreotype, 1998

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Volume 2, 2000-2002

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

Railroad Vision, 2002

 

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Optical Parables, 2001

 

Walker Evans and the American Tradition, 2001

 

August Sander: German Portraits, 1918-1933, 2001

 

Voyages and Visions: Early Photographs from the Wilson Family Collection, 2000

 

The Man in the Street: Eugène Atget in Paris, 2000

 

Carleton Watkins: From Where the View Looked Best, 2000

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Volume 3, 2002-2003

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographer, 2003

Physical Description: (includes CD-ROM)
 

Strange Days: Photographs from the Sixties, 2003

 

About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange, 2002

 

Gustav Le Gray: Photographer, 2002

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Volume 4, 2004-2005

Physical Description: (4 folders)
 

Scene of the Crime: Photo by Weegee, 2005

 

Three Roads Taken: The Photographs of Paul Strand, 2005

 

The Photographs of Frederick Sommer: A Centennial Tribute, 2005

 

All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860, 2005

 

Close to Home: An American Album, 2004

 

Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske, 2004

 

Recent Acquisitions: Eugène Atget, Brett Weston, William Garnett, Milton Rogovin, 2004

 

Series I.F. GRI exhibitions documentation, 1999-2005

Physical Description: 1.3 linear feet (3 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of gallery and promotional graphics, design plans, paint and material samples, and administrative materials created and assembled by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, for Getty Research Institute (GRI) exhibitions between 1999 and 2003.

Arrangement note

Materials were maintained in original order. The creator had arranged the materials chronologically by exhibition in six three-ring binders.
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Volume 1, 1999-2001

Physical Description: (5 folders)
 

Mexico: From Empire to Revolution Part One, 2000

 

Mexico: From Empire to Revolution Part Two, 2001

 

Making A Prince's Museum: Drawings for the Late-Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese in Rome, 2000

 

The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals, 2000

Physical Description:
 

The Shadow of Gradiva: A Last Excavation Campaign in the Collections of the Getty Center by Anne and Patrick Poirier, 1999

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Volume 2, 2001-2002

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

The Geometry of Seeing: Perspective and the Dawn of Virtual Space, 2002

 

Exploding Landscapes: Naples and Vesuvius on the Grand Tour, 2002

 

Sherrie Levine/Joost van Oss: Sculpture Prototypes, 2001

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Volume 3, 2002

Physical Description: (4 folders)
 

The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River, 2002

Physical Description: (includes 6 CD-ROMs)
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Volume 4, 2003

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

Comic Art: The Paris Salon in Caricature, 2003

Physical Description: (includes CD-ROM)
 

Photographs of Artists by Alexander Liberman, 2003

 

Robert Motherwell: A La Pintura/To Painting, 2003

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Volume 5, 2004

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

Sea Tails: A Video Collaboration, 2004

 

The Business of Art: Evidence from the Art Market, 2004

 

Building Music: GRI at Disney Concert Hall, 2004

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Volume 6, 2005

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

Julius Shulman: Modernity and the Metropolis, 2005

Physical Description: (includes 3 CD-ROMs)
 

Drawn to Rome: French Neoclassical Sketchbooks and Prints, 2005

 

Past Presence: Objects of Study at the Getty Research Institute, 2005

Physical Description: (includes 3 CD-ROMs)
 

Series I.G. Gallery N106 exhibitions documentation, 1998-2005

Physical Description: 0.6 linear feet (1 box)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of gallery and promotional graphics, design plans, paint and material samples, and administrative materials created and assembled by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, for exhibitions displayed in gallery N106 between 1998 and 2005.

Arrangement note

Materials were maintained in original order. The creator had arranged the materials chronologically by exhibition in three three-ring binders.
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Volume 1, 1998-1999

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

Foundry to Finish: In the Studio of Adriaen de Vries, 1999

 

The Making of a Medieval Book, 1998

General note

Some materials date from 2000, probably from the second installation of the exhibition.
 

Stammheim Missal, 1998

Physical Description: (includes CD-ROM)
 

Prayer for a Queen: The Hours of Jeanne D'Évreux, 1998

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Volume 2, 2000-2004

Physical Description: (3 folders)

General note

There is a tab for the exhibition The Making of a Medieval Book #2, but no corresponding materials.
 

The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on the Italian Renaissance, 2004

 

Images in Light: Newly Acquired Stained Glass, 2003

 

The Making of a Medieval Book #3, 2003

 

Prehistoric Arts of the Eastern Mediterranean, 2003

 

Orazio Gentileschi in Genoa: Paintings for the Palazzo Sauli, 2002

 

Rome on the Grand Tour, 2002

 

Making a Renaissance Painting, 2000

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Volume 3, 2004-2005

Physical Description: (2 folders)
 

Titian and the Commander: A Renaissance Artist and his Patron, 2005

 

For Your Approval: Oil Sketches by Tiepolo, 2005

 

Imagining the Orient, 2004

 

Series I.H. Gallery W205 exhibitions documentation, 1997-2000

Physical Description: 0.3 linear feet (1 box)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of gallery and promotional graphics, design plans, paint and material samples, and administrative materials created and assembled by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, for exhibitions displayed in gallery W205 between 1997 and 2000.

Arrangement note

Materials were maintained in original order. The creator had arranged the materials chronologically by exhibition in two three-ring binders.
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Volume 1, 1997-1999

Physical Description: (2 folders)
 

Vincent's Irises, 1999

 

Ed Ruscha's Light, 1998

 

A Matter of Taste: Alexis Smith's Commission for the Getty Center Restaurant, 1997

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Volume 2, 1999-2000

Physical Description: (2 folders)
 

Poussin Landscapes by Leon Kossoff, 2000

 

Martin Puryear: Commission for the Getty Center, 1999

 

Ercole De' Roberti: The Renaissance in Ferrara, 1999

 

Series I.I. Gallery W107 exhibitions documentation, 1997-2006

Physical Description: 0.2 linear feet (1 box)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of gallery and promotional graphics, design plans, paint and material samples, and administrative materials created and assembled by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, for exhibitions displayed in gallery W107 between 1997 and 2006.

Arrangement note

Materials were maintained in original order. The creator had arranged the materials chronologically by exhibition in a three-ring binder. Although the binder was labeled Volume 1, there is no subsequent volume at this time.
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Volume 1, 1997-2005

Physical Description: (3 folders)
 

Public Faces/Private Spaces: Recent Acquisitions, 2006

Physical Description: (CD-ROM, no other documentation)
 

Pictures for the Press, 2005

 

The Photographs of Fredrick Sommer: A Centennial Tribute, 2005

 

Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors, 2005

 

The Grapes of Wrath: Horace Bristol's California Photographs, 2002

 

Hill and Adamson: A Light in the Darkness, 1999

 

Irresistible Decay: Ruins Reclaimed, 1997

 

Series I.J. Getty Center construction exhibition, 1991-1999 (bulk 1994-1997)

Physical Description: 0.4 linear feet (1 box)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of planning materials and photographs created and assembled by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department regarding the Getty Center's opening exhibition on its building design and construction, dating from 1991-1999 (bulk 1994-1997). Making Architecture: The Getty Center from Concept through Construction contains design plans, memoranda, correspondence, gallery graphics, and administrative materials for the exhibition; of particular note are the exhibition scripts, which chronicle the development of the Getty Center from its conception in 1982 through its opening in 1997. Getty Center model photographs contains prints ranging from 5x7" to 8x10"; most images are of the 1994 1/4" model for the Center, while a few are aerial views of the Center's construction.

Arrangement note

Materials are in original order. The creator had maintained the materials in two three-ring binders: one for Making Architecture and one for the Getty Center model photographs.
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Making Architecture: The Getty Center from Concept through Construction, 1991-1999 (bulk 1996-1997)

Physical Description: (5 folders)
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Getty Center model photographs, 1994-1995

 

Series I.K. Getty Center opening Antiquities exhibition, 1996-1998

Physical Description: 0.2 linear feet (1 box)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of design plans, proposals, and memoranda created and compiled by the J. Paul Getty Museum's Exhibition Design Department, for the Getty Center's opening Antiquities exhibition, dating from 1996 to 1998 (the official title of the exhibition was Beyond Beauty: Antiquities as Evidence and additional materials can be found in Series I.A. Special exhibitions documentation). The Fabrication proposal package primarily concerns the physical layout of the exhibition, and the Media component package concerns the audio-visual components.

Arrangement note

Materials are in original order. The creator had maintained the materials in two three-ring binders.
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Fabrication proposal package, 1997

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Media component package, 1996-1998

Physical Description: (2 folders)
 

Series II. American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) lecture slides, 1999

Physical Description: 3.0 linear feet (3 boxes)

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of slides, a copy of the speech, and supporting materials for a June 17, 1999 presentation given by Merritt Price, Exhibition Design Manager, and Deenie Yudell, Publications Design Manager for the J. Paul Getty Trust, focusing on design at the Getty. The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) organized the event. In addition to the topics of exhibition and book design, they also touch on wayfinding signage, relaxation (e.g., the gardens), branding, websites, merchandise, and more. The slide carousels were labeled Right 1-4 and Left 1-4.

Arrangement note

The AIGA slide show slides were kept in the order in which they arrived in their original carousels, even though the numbers on the slides do not necessarily correspond. The speech and backup slides are in the original order from their three-ring binder. It roughly appears that there are two sets of backups, but they are not identical.
 

AIGA slide show

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Right 1, 1999

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Right 2, 1999

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Right 3, 1999

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Right 4, 1999

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Left 1, 1999

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Left 2, 1999

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Left 3, 1999

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Left 4, 1999

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Speech and backup slides, 1999

Physical Description: (2 boxes)