Finding aid for the Getty Research Institute Exhibition images, 1985-2008, undated
Helen Kim
Descriptive Summary
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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Language: Collection material is in
English
Administrative History
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.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
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.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
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
Acquisition Information
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.
Processing History
Helen Kim processed the records and wrote the finding aid in 2017.
Related Materials
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.
Arrangement
The records are arranged chronologically by date of exhibition.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Topics
Art museums -- Exhibitions -- United States
Exhibitions -- Design
Museum exhibits
Genres and Forms of Material
Negatives
Slides (photographs)
Contact sheets
Photographic prints
Transparencies
Digital images
Contributors
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
Series I.
Exhibition images
Historiography of Impressionism:
box 2016.IA.77-01
Photographic prints
circa 1986
box 2016.IA.77-01
Photographic prints,
circa 1987
box 2016.IA.77-01
Contact sheets,
circa 1987
Ellis Waterhouse, Portrait of a Scholar:
box 2016.IA.77-01
Photographic prints,
circa 1987
box 2016.IA.77-01
Contact sheets,
circa 1987
box 2016.IA.77-01
Photographic prints [black and white],
circa 1987
box 2016.IA.77-01
Photographic prints [Polaroids]
circa 1987
box 2016.IA.77-01
Contact sheets,
circa 1987
Twentieth Century Journals on the Book Arts [Malkoff]:
box 2016.IA.77-01
Photographic prints,
circa 1987
box 2016.IA.77-01
Transparencies,
circa 1987
box 2016.IA.77-01
Contact sheets,
circa 1987
box 2016.IA.77-01
Handlist [object list],
1985
The Making of a Book: Modern Architecture [Progress of a Book]:
box 2016.IA.77-01
Photographic prints,
circa 1988
box 2016.IA.77-01
Contact sheets,
circa 1988
The Present Which is Still the Past: Nineteenth Century Photographs of Classical Monuments:
box 2016.IA.77-01
Contact sheets,
circa 1988
box 2016.IA.77-01
Transparencies,
circa 1988
Dennis Keeley Photographs: Selected Works, 1980-1988:
box 2016.IA.77-01
Contact sheets,
circa 1989
Roseline Delisle: Selected Porcelain Words, 1979-1989:
box 2016.IA.77-01
Photographic prints,
circa 1989
box 2016.IA.77-01
Contact sheets,
circa 1989
box 2016.IA.77-01
Transparencies,
circa 1989
Selections from the Resource Collections:
box 2016.IA.77-02
Photographic prints,
circa 1989
Text, Image, and Art as Primum Mobile:
box 2016.IA.77-02
Photographic prints,
circa 1990
Recent Acquisitions: The Vlastislav Hofman collection:
Architectural Adumbrations: The Architect's Sketchbook and Contemporary Practice:
box 2016.IA.77-02
Photographic prints,
circa 1990
Spectacles, Spectators, and Consumers:
box 2016.IA.77-02
Photographic prints,
circa 1991
Book Illustration from the Fourth Dimension: Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1913-1930:
box 2016.IA.77-02
Photographic prints,
circa 1991
Renaissance to Risorgimento: An Exhibition of Italian Books and Manuscripts in Honor of Franklin D. Murphy:
Connections: Explorations in the Getty Center Collections by Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, Alexis Smith and Buzz Spector:
box 2016.IA.77-02
Photographic prints,
circa 1992
box 2016.IA.77-02
Mounted images on foam board,
circa 1992
box 2016.IA.77-02
Press releases,
circa 1992
Continuing Triumphs: Festival Entries from the 16th to the 19th Century:
box 2016.IA.77-03
Photographic prints,
1992
Inside Star: An exhibition of work by Max Gimblett:
box 2016.IA.77-03
Photographic prints,
circa 1992
Curator's Choice:
L'homme et son desir:
Curator's Choice:
Erotica, Konstantin Somov:
New Acquisition:
Stefan Lorant archive:
Curator's Choice:
Artistic Anatomy:
Curator's Choice:
Fables and Fairytales:
Assorted hallway collection highlights:
Building, Art, and Text: The Los Angeles Central Library:
Time Objects: Ten Years of Collecting:
box 2016.IA.77-03
Photographic prints,
circa 1993
box 2016.IA.77-03
Transparencies,
circa 1993
Inventing Rome: Interpretations of an Urban Landscape:
Curator's Choice:
American Artists' Portraits: Selections from the Peter A. Juley and Son Collection:
box 2016.IA.77-03
Photographic prints,
circa 1993
Curator's Choice:
Historia Animalia:
Curator's Choice:
Selections from the E. Maurice Bloch collection of Panorama ephemera:
Connections 2: Explorations in the Getty Center Collections by Henry Gamboa, Jr., Nobuho Nagasawa, Noah Purifoy, and Rachel
Rosenthal:
box 2016.IA.77-03
Photographic prints,
circa 1994
box 2016.IA.77-03
Contact sheets,
circa 1994
box 2016.IA.77-04
Photographic prints,
circa 1995
box 2016.IA.77-04
Photographic prints [Polaroids],
circa 1995
box 2016.IA.77-04
Transparencies,
circa 1995
Recollection Reconstruction: Imagining Antiquity 1500 to 1900:
box 2016.IA.77-04
Transparencies,
circa 1995
box 2016.IA.77-04
Photographic print,
circa 1995
They saw a very great future here: Photographs from Central Los Angeles by Camilo José Vergara:
box 2016.IA.77-04
Transparencies,
circa 1996
Sites of Surrealist Collaboration:
box 2016.IA.77-04
Transparencies,
circa 1996
box 2016.IA.77-04
Photographic prints [Polaroids],
circa 1996
Irresistible Decay: Ruins Reclaimed:
Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky:
box 2016.IA.77-04
Transparencies,
circa 1998
box 2016.IA.77-04
Digital images,
circa 1999
Physical Description: (4 discs)
Port and Corridor: Working Sites in Los Angeles-Photographs by Robbert Flick and Allan Sekula:
box 2016.IA.77-04
Transparencies,
circa 1998
Framing the Asian Shore: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of the Ottoman Empire:
box 2016.IA.77-04
Transparencies,
circa 1998
Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe:
box 2016.IA.77-04
Photographic prints,
circa 1998
box 2016.IA.77-04
Transparencies,
circa 1997
The Shadow of Gradiva: A Last Excavation Campaign in the Collections of the Getty Center by Anne and Patrick Poirier:
A Structure Revealed: Drawings of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange:
box 2016.IA.77-05
Transparencies,
circa 1999
The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals:
box 2016.IA.77-05
Transparencies,
circa 2000
Making a Prince's Museum: Drawings for the Late-Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese in Rome:
box 2016.IA.77-05
Slides,
circa 2000
Physical Description: (2 folders)
box 2016.IA.77-05
Transparencies,
circa 2000
Mexico: From Empire to Revolution, Part II:
box 2016.IA.77-06
Transparencies,
circa 2000
Naples and Vesuvius on the Grand Tour:
box 2016.IA.77-06
Transparencies,
circa 2001
Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen:
Sherrie Levin/Joost van Oss: Sculpture Prototypes:
box 2016.IA.77-06
Transparencies,
circa 2001
box 2016.IA.77-06
Transparencies,
circa 2002
The Geometry of Seeing: Perspective and the Dawn of Virtual Space:
box 2016.IA.77-06
Transparencies,
circa 2002
The Danube Exodus: The Ripping Currents of the River:
box 2016.IA.77-07
Transparencies,
circa 2002
Comic Art: The Paris Salon in Caricature:
box 2016.IA.77-07
Digital images,
circa 2003
Physical Description: (1 disc)
box 2016.IA.77-07
Reference materials,
circa 2003
Robert Motherwell: A la pintura (To Painting):
box 2016.IA.77-07
Transparencies,
circa 2003
Photographs of Artists by Alexander Liberman:
box 2016.IA.77-07
Transparencies,
circa 2003
The Business of Art: Evidence from the Art Market:
box 2016.IA.77-07
Transparencies,
circa 2004
Sea Tails: A Video Collaboration:
box 2016.IA.77-07
Transparencies,
circa 2004
Past Presence: Objects of Study at the Getty Research Institute:
box 2016.IA.77-07
Digital images,
circa 2004
Physical Description: (4 discs)
box 2016.IA.77-07
Transparencies,
circa 2004
Drawn to Rome: French Neoclassical Sketchbooks and Prints:
box 2016.IA.77-08
Digital images and contact sheet,
circa 2005
Physical Description: (2 discs)
box 2016.IA.77-08
Transparencies,
circa 2005
The Artist Turns to the Book:
box 2016.IA.77-08
Digital images and contact sheets,
circa 2005
Physical Description: (2 discs)
Julius Shulman, Modernity and the Metropolis:
box 2016.IA.77-08
Digital images,
circa 2005
Physical Description: (1 disc)
Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1920–1938:
box 2016.IA.77-08
Contact sheets and digital images,
circa 2006
Physical Description: (2 discs)
box 2016.IA.77-08
Digital images,
circa 2007
Physical Description: (4 discs)
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky:
box 2016.IA.77-08
Digital images,
circa 2008
Physical Description: (2 discs)
