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Updated Handbook of the Getty Collection Includes Beloved Favorites, New Acquisitions
Spanning cultures and millennia, this new edition captures the essence of the Getty Museum
New Getty Book Offers Timely Reexamination of Joseph Wright Via His Distinctive Candlelight Paintings
A hallmark of the artist from Derby, these works showcase an artist at the height of his talent
New Handbook Provides Guidelines to Research the Provenance of Mediterranean Antiquities
This essential Getty volume outlines effective strategies to aid research endeavors
Getty Acquires Rediscovered Diego Velázquez Painting
“Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares” strengthens Getty’s collection of 17th-century European paintings
A Photographer’s Search for Identity
A major Getty acquisition of photographs by Josef Breitenbach expands the presence of this innovative 20th-century artist and his experimental work in Los Angeles
Getty Celebrates Long-Awaited West Coast Debut of Reynolds’ “Portrait of Mai”
Three years after jointly acquiring the painting with the National Portrait Gallery, London, it will finally go on display in Los Angeles
New Acquisitions on View: Paintings by Georges Lemmen and Peder Balke
These paintings are small—but powerful
Statement from Getty Regarding Return of Fragments to Türkiye
Getty has initiated the return of 44 architectural terracotta fragments
Go Behind the Scenes at an Art Auction
Drawings curator Julian Brooks reveals new Getty acquisitions
Infinite Tenderness, Expressed in Stoneware
Young Mother Breastfeeding Her Child by Alexandre Charpentier joins the Getty collection