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| Established | 1969 |
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| Location | Pasadena, California |
| Type | Art museum |
| Website | Official Website |
The Norton Simon Museum is a premier art museum located in Pasadena, California. Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually Visual art. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It was previously known by several other names, such as the Pasadena Art Institute and the Pasadena Art Museum.
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Overview
The Simon collections include European painting, sculpture, tapestry and some remarkable sculpture from South Asia. Outside gardens also house sculpture, as well as a small pond. The museum is located along the route of the Tournament of Roses Parade, where its distinctive, brown tile-exterior can be seen in the background on television. The Tournament of Roses Parade was established and first held on January 1 1890 in Pasadena California, eight miles (13 km northeast of Downtown Los Angeles
The museum features a theater which shows various films throughout the day; it also hosts lectures, symposia, and dance and several musical performances year-round.
History
The Pasadena Art Museum was completed in 1969, designed by Pasadena architects Thornton Ladd and John Kelsey. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. John Kelsey is the name of a number of historically notable individuals including John Kelsey, an American judge and state representative from Michigan The exterior is covered with 115,000 brown tiles made by Edith Heath. Edith Heath ( May 25, 1911 &ndash December 27, 2005) was an industrial designer potter and founder of Heath Ceramics in 1948 [1] In the early 1970s, due to an ambitious schedule of progressive art exhibits and a new building project, the museum began to experience extreme financial hardships. Starting in mid-1960s, industrialist Norton Simon rose to become one of the pre-eminent art collectors in the world; by the 1970s he was searching for a permanent location for his growing collection of over 4,000 objects. Norton Winfred Simon ( February 5, 1907 - June 1[[ 993]] in the United States was a millionaire Industrialist and philanthropist based In 1974, the museum and Simon came to an agreement: Simon absorbed the museum's debts and became responsible for the collection and building projects; In return the museum was renamed the Norton Simon Museum. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar.
In 1995, the museum began a major renovation by architect Frank Gehry. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Frank Owen Gehry CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize -winning Architect The redesign resulted in more intimate galleries, improved lighting, increased rotating exhibition space and an entire floor devoted to Asian art. Asian art can refer to Art amongst many cultures in Asia. Many modern Asian artists seek to blend ancient Asian themes with contemporary artistic styles The gardens were redesigned by Nancy Goslee Power to house the 20th century sculpture collection. The new Norton Simon Theater was the final element of the renovation, designed by Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates Inc. , and is used for lectures, film, dance performances and concerts. [2]
Collections
The Norton Simon Museum contains a wide permanent collection of paintings from the 14th century to the 20th, and it is widely considered by many as one of the best among private collectors. It also hosts temporary exhibitions that can treat of a given painter (e. g. 'Picasso's Toros'), art movements (avant-garde) or art developed in a specific area (often located in Asia, e. g. 'Sacred Treasures from Tibet, Nepal and Northern India').
The 19th Century is well-represented, and paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Cézanne and most of the Impressionists are shown. For the French Admiral see Admiral Courbet (1828-1885 Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( 10 June 1819 &ndash Henri Fantin-Latour ( January 14, 1836 - August 25, 1904) was a French painter and lithographer. Visitors also find a great number of sculptures and paintings by Edgar Degas.
References
- ^ Chang, Jade (2005). Art/Shop/Eat Los Angeles. Somerset Books, 90-98. ISBN 1905131062.
- ^ Campbell, Sara; Knoke, C. Sara Campbell is a British freediver. She is the ex world record holder in Free Immersion (diving to a depth of 81m Constant Weight (90m and Constant without fins , & Williams, G. (2003). Handbook of the Norton Simon Museum. . Pasadena, California: Norton Simon Museum. , 128. ISBN 0-9726681-1-1-X.
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