Getty Research Institute Exhibition images, 1985-2008, undated, 1985-2008undated

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Summary

Title:

Getty Research Institute Exhibition images

Dates:

1985-2008undated

Creators:

Getty Research Institute. Exhibitions

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.

Extent:

4 Linear Feet (8 boxes)

Language:

Collection material is in English

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

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

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 information:

Helen Kim processed the records and wrote the finding aid in 2017.

Physical location:

Request access to the material described in this inventory through its corresponding library catalog record and click "Request." Click here for 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.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Art museums -- Exhibitions -- United States
Exhibitions -- Design
Museum exhibits
Negatives
Slides (photographs)
Contact sheets
Photographic prints
Transparencies
Digital images

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:: Helen Kim
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-04-05 11:36:48 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:: 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.
Terms of access:: Contact Library Rights and Reproductions at the Getty Research Institute for copyright information and permission to publish.