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The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) was an art museum located in Pasadena, California, United States, showcasing art and design originating from California. The museum was founded by long-time Pasadena residents and art collectors Robert and Arlene Oltman. [1] Ground was broken in 2000 and the museum officially opened in June 2002.
The museum entrance hall. After receiving approximately 400 German Expressionist pieces from collector Galka Scheyer in 1953, [2] the Pasadena Art Institute changed its name to the Pasadena Art Museum in 1954 and occupied the Chinoiserie-style "The Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" building (now the Pacific Asia Museum) on North Los Robles Avenue until 1970. [3]
Long Beach Museum of Art: Long Beach: Los Angeles Harbor Region: Art: American decorative arts objects, early 20th-century European art, California Modernism and contemporary art of California Lopez Adobe: San Fernando: San Fernando Valley: Historic house: MAK Center for Art and Architecture: West Hollywood: Westside: Art
The Armory Center for the Arts is a non-profit community arts organization that offers arts education programs and contemporary art exhibitions in Pasadena, California, United States. [1] It originated as the education department of the Pasadena Art Museum in 1947.
The exhibition "New Painting of Common Objects" at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1962 was the first museum survey of American pop art in the United States. The eight artists included were: Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Andy Warhol, Phillip Hefferton, Robert Dowd, Edward Ruscha, Joe Goode and Wayne Thiebaud.
The museum also houses photo collections from the Pasadena Star-News and local photographers J. Allen Hawkins and Flag Studios. The museum's newspaper archive includes 15 linear feet of local newspapers, including bound copies of the Pasadena Star from 1886 to 1924. The research library houses approximately a thousand books and more than 300 ...
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Robert M. Ellis (April 14, 1922 – September 13, 2014) was an American artist. His professional career spanned six decades as an artist, educator, and museum director, including eight years as Curator of Education at the Pasadena Art Museum in California, twenty-three years on the art faculty of University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, and ten years as director of UNM's Harwood Museum of Art ...