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USC Fisher Museum of Art, formerly USC Fisher Gallery, which is affiliated with the University of Southern California, is the first art museum established in the city of Los Angeles. [1] Founded in 1939 by Elizabeth Holmes Fisher , she donated 29 paintings at the beginning. [ 2 ]
The museum was founded in 1971 by the Pacificulture Foundation, which purchased "The Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" from the City of Pasadena. Grace Nicholson donated the structure to the city for art and cultural purposes in 1943 and was a dealer in Native American and, later, Asian art and antiques. [2]
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Fisher Museum may refer to: USC Fisher Museum of Art at the University of Southern California; The Fisher Museum in the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts; Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum in Key West, Florida; Mel Fisher's Treasure Museum in Sebastian, Florida
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]
Fisher was on his radar since the mid 1970s, long before Auping joined the museum. He organized “Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism,” Fisher’s only retrospective, in 2010. Auping was a ...
Architect Frederick Fisher has worked on cultural projects that include the Getty Villa, the Huntington and MoMA PS1. Now his studio is helping refresh the Natural History Museum.
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945–1980 was a scholarly initiative funded by the J. Paul Getty Trust to historicize the contributions to contemporary art history of artists, curators, critics, and others based in Los Angeles.