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Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961, splitting from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art.
Details. Hours: Check the site as hours change. Cost: $20 to enter and $16 to park. Location: 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Nearby: La Brea Tar Pits. Information from my visit in 2015, 2017 and 2019. As I have stated in other posts, I am not a huge art person; however, I am a huge fan of strange and unique things.
When it opened in 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) was the largest new art museum the country had seen in a quarter century. The museum rose on the site of the old adobe and tree-shaded home ranch that the Hancock family donated to the county for a park in 1916. Three original LACMA buildings faced onto Wilshire from a raised ...
- The Cotton Pickers – Winslow Homer
- The Raising of Lazarus – Rembrandt Van Rijn
- Portrait of Sebastià Junyer Vidal – Pablo Picasso
- Magdalene with The Smoking Flame – Georges de La Tour
- Still Life with Cherries and Peaches – Paul Cézanne
- Nympheas – Claude Monet
- Wrestlers – Thomas Eakins
- Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child – Mary Cassatt
- Cliff Dwellers – George Bellows
- The Treachery of Images
Date created:1876Dimensions: 61.12 × 96.84 centimeters (24.06 × 38.13 inches)Date created: 1630-1632Dimensions: 96.4 x 81.3 centimeters (37.9 x 32 inches)Date created: 1903Dimensions: 126.36 x 93.98 centimeters (49.75 x 37 inches)Date created: 1640Dimensions: 117 × 91.76 centimeters (46.06 × 36.12 inches)Date created: 1885-1887Dimensions: 50.1 x: 60.9 centimeters (19.7 x 24 inches)Date created: 1897-1898Dimensions: 66.04 × 104.14 centimeters (26 × 41 inches)Date created: 1899Dimensions: 122.87 x 152.4 centimeters (48.37 x 60 inches)Date created: 1880Dimensions: 100.33 × 65.72 centimeters (39.5 × 25.87 inches)Date created: 1913Dimensions: 102 × 106.8 centimeters (40.1 × 42 inches)Date created: 1929Dimensions: 60.33 × 81.12 centimeters (23.75 × 31.94 inches)Ten legendary paintings that have enthralled art lovers and visitors from all over the world are among the numerous masterpieces that decorate the museum's walls. Not all of these paintings may be at the museum. 1. "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth. "Christina's World" is a masterpiece of American realism, capturing a moment of contemplation ...
Sep 27, 2016 · The winner is: Chris Burden, Urban Light (2008) But man was it was a close race! Here are the statistical results: 1.37% - Ardabil Carpet. 5.48% - George de la Tour, The Magdalen with the Smoking ...
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This article was first published in the CODART Courant 19 (Winter edition 2009) and in the CODART eZine, no.3 Summer 2013. The opening of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in March 1965 was a powerful symbol of the coming of age of a city transformed in just 100 years from a dusty agricultural center with around 2000 residents to a vibrant, international city. Today...
