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Title: Getty Research Institute Exhibition images
Date (inclusive): 1985-2008undated
Number: IA60005
Creator/Collector:
Getty Research Institute. Exhibitions
Physical Description:
4 Linear Feet
(8 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Institutional Records and Archives
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The records comprise written documentation and photographs documenting the exhibitions of the Getty Center for the History
of Art and the Humanities and the Getty Research Institute dating from 1985 to 2008, undated. Materials include black-and-white
and color photographic prints, slides, negatives, transparencies, contact sheets, digital images, and reference materials
for some exhibitions such as ephemera and object lists.
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general library access policy . See the Administrative Information section of this finding aid for access restrictions specific to the records described
below. Please note, some of the records may be stored off site; advanced notice is required for access to these materials.
Language: Collection material is in
English
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. The Trust currently supports and oversees four programs: the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Getty
Foundation; the Getty Conservation Institute; and the Getty Research Institute, which is dedicated to furthering knowledge
and advancing understanding of the visual arts.
The origins of the J. Paul Getty Trust date to 1953, when J. Paul Getty established the J. Paul Getty Museum as a California
charitable trust to house his growing art collections. Originally a small, private institution located in Mr. Getty's Ranch
House near Malibu, California, the museum moved to the newly constructed Getty Villa on grounds adjacent to the Ranch House
in 1974. When most of Mr. Getty's personal estate passed to the Trust in 1982, the Trustees decided that, given the size of
the endowment, it should make a greater contribution to the visual arts and humanities than the museum could alone. In 1982,
following extensive international deliberations with knowledgeable individuals, the trustees made commitments to three new
entities, a Conservation Institute, a Center for Education in the Arts, and a Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
(GCHAH), which formally opened in July 1983. In 1996, in order to avoid confusion with the soon to-open Getty Center in Brentwood,
the GCHAH was renamed the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities and moved to the Getty Center
in I997. In 2000 the program's name was shortened to the Getty Research Institute (GRI).
Noted architectural historian Kurt Forster began work as the founding director of the GCHAH in the fall of 1984. One of Forster's
goals was to display selections from the Institute's collections, and a hallway gallery was created on the first floor of
the GCHAH, designed by Mark Mack. In the same year, Marcia Reed, Associate Librarian for Reader Services (currently Chief
Curator) was asked to stage a few small exhibitions at the Getty Museum. By the end of 1988, the program was incorporated
into the newly established Publications program, and exhibitions staged in the hallway gallery took on an increasingly professional
look and grew in size. Access to the exhibits was gradually widened to the general public, while increasing reviews in the
local press attracted still more visitors. After the move to the Getty Center, the Institute's plans for exhibitions expanded
to include regular exhibits in its own gallery and annual displays in large and smaller rotating galleries of the Museum.
Long-awaited plans were realized in 2013 when construction to build a larger gallery space in the GRI took place over a three-month
period. The inaugural exhibition in the newly expanded gallery was
Connecting Seas.
Exhibitions curated by the GRI broadened their reach as they were increasingly mounted at local institutions, museums, and
civic and cultural organizations including the Italian Cultural Institute, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles
Public Library. Loans from Special Collections contributed entire sections to exhibitions hosted at other institutions, and
GRI exhibitions traveled to other institutions around the world.
In 2015, the Exhibitions department merged with the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art and Collection Development
department to form an overarching unit called Curatorial.
The records described in accessions 2010.IA.48 and 2016.IA.77 are available for use by qualified researchers. 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.
Contact
Library Rights and Reproductions at the Getty Research Institute for copyright information and permission to publish.
Getty Research Institute exhibitions images, 1985-2008, undated, Institutional Records and Archives, The Getty Research Institute,
Los Angeles, IA60005.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifaia60005
Accession 2010.IA.48 was transferred by the GRI Collection Development department in 2010. Accession 2016.IA.77 was transferred
by the GRI Exhibitions department in September 2016.
Helen Kim processed the records and wrote the finding aid in 2017.
Related materials may exist in unprocessed collections related to exhibitions records. Contact Institutional Archives for
more information.
The following materials are offered as possible sources of further information on the agencies and subjects covered by the
records. The listing is not exhaustive.
J. Paul Getty Trust Press Releases, 1954-1959, 1973-2013, 2015, J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute. IA10011.
J. Paul Getty Museum Exhibition Photographs, 1980-2004 (bulk 1990-2004). Getty Research Institute. IA 20032.
J. Paul Getty Museum Exhibition Design Records, 1991-2006 (bulk 1997-2005). Getty Research Institute. IA30013.
Press clippings, 1954-2009, J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute. IA30017.
Getty Research Institute Exhibitions records, 1992-2004, undated. Getty Research Institute. IA60002.
Getty Research Institute California Video exhibition project files and oral history recordings, 2006-2008. Getty Research
Institute. IA60004.
Scope and Content of Collection
The records document select exhibitions hosted by the Getty Research Institute and its predecessor, the Getty Center for the
History of Art and the Humanities. The materials date from 1985 to 2008, undated, and comprise photographic prints, negatives,
slides, contact sheets, transparencies, and digital images on compact discs. Some reference materials, such as exhibition
object lists and ephemera, are also included.
The records are arranged chronologically by date of exhibition.
Art museums -- Exhibitions -- United States
Exhibitions -- Design
Museum exhibits
Negatives
Slides (photographs)
Contact sheets
Photographic prints
Transparencies
Digital images
Getty Research Institute. Exhibitions
Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
Getty Research Institute. Collection Development Department