Jawlensky

Norton Simon Museum

Norton Simon Museum publication about Van Gogh.

Vincent van Gogh, painter, printmaker, collector

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VINCENT VAN GOGH

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Rembrandt etchings in the Norton Simon Museum

Williams, Gloria

Comprehensive collection of the personal letters & other writings of Feininger (1871-1956), early modernist painter who escaped Nazi persecution in his native Germany, where he was a teacher at the Bauhaus & a leading representative of the avant-garde movement in art, to live the rest of his life in the U.S. Also contains writings about the artist, a chronology, bibliography, list of major exhibitions, & 52 illustrations, including 8 full-color plates. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing hardcover in original DJ.

Lyonel Feininger

Wassily Kandinsky

Abdo, Sarah Campbell

Arts & Photography

Paul Klee : Norton Simon Museum

PAUL KLEE

Sara Campbell Abdo

Handbook of the Norton Simon Museum

Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.)

In 1931, at age 24, Norton Simon invested $7,000 in a bankrupt juice bottling plant. This investment grew into Hunt Foods, which soon ruled California's canned tomatoes empire. With a rare ability to transform laggard companies into highly profitable enterprises, Simon went on to amass a huge fortune. Then, in his late forties, he turned to art collecting and built one of the greatest private collections since World War II. Suzanne Muchnic has written an intimate and very readable biography of Norton Simon and at the same time provides a thoughtful overview of Los Angeles culture in the postwar years. The tycoon-turned-art-collector was accused of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing, but he pursued art with passion. A shrewd negotiator, obsessed by power, Simon astonished the art world with acquisitions ranging from Old Masters to Impressionists to rare Indian and Asian artworks. Searching for an appropriate home for his 12,000-strong collection, Simon courted (and disappointed) numerous California museums before eventually taking over the floundering Pasadena Art Museum, now the Norton Simon Museum. Simon's influence extended beyond the business and art world: as a University of California regent he challenged funding cutbacks, sympathized with student activists, and opposed the firing of Angela Davis. His personal life was equally tumultuous and included a difficult divorce, his 31-year-old son's suicide, a whirlwind courtship and marriage to actress Jennifer Jones, and a run for the U.S. Senate. Simon died in 1993, and during his last ten years Suzanne Muchnic was the only person to whom he granted an interview. Odd Man In reveals a man very much of his time--brilliant, anxious, powerful, and caught up in the rapid change and cultural ambiguity of Southern California in the second half of the century.

Odd Man In

Suzanne Muchnic

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