1950 - 1959
Exhibition Archive for 1950 - 1959
In Our Image: Old Testment Biblical Portraits by Guy Rowe - Selected by Houston Harte
January 4, 1950
– January 29, 1950
Photographs of the West by Ansel Adams
January 15, 1950
– February 19, 1950
Ejnar Hansen
February 1, 1950
– February 26, 1950
Whistler Etchings
February 26, 1950
– March 19, 1950
Francis de Erdely
March 1, 1950
– April 2, 1950
Sculpture by Albert Stewart
April 5, 1950
– May 7, 1950
Williamsburg
May 2, 1950
Women Painters of the West
May 5, 1950
– June 4, 1950
Pastels and Oils by Louis Kronberg
May 9, 1950
– May 31, 1950
Drawings by Rico Lebrun
May 10, 1950
– May 31, 1950
Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Henry Lee McFee
June 2, 1950
– July 22, 1950
Paintings by Jose Enrique Guerrero
July 25, 1950
– September 15, 1950
Harry Harringer Drawings
September 19, 1950
– October 9, 1950
Millard Sheets in Retrospect: 1929-1950
October 16, 1950
– November 16, 1950
French Porcelains From the Storrier-Stearns Collection
November 15, 1950
– January 19, 1951
Thirty Pastels by Werner Scholz
November 19, 1950
– December 24, 1950
Sculpture by Pegot Waring
December 28, 1950
– February 11, 1951
Wyland Stanley
January 20, 1951
– March 8, 1951
Oriental Art from the Storrier-Stearns Collection
January 26, 1951
– March 29, 1951
Paintings by Oscar van Young
February 14, 1951
– March 18, 1951
Photographs by Edward Weston
March 9, 1951
– April 15, 1951
Paintings by Phil Dike
March 21, 1951
– April 22, 1951
Retrospective Exhibition of the Works by Alson Clark
April 17, 1951
– May 21, 1951
Paintings by Dorothy Jordan
April 25, 1951
– May 27, 1951
Paintings by Charles Tracy
May 30, 1951
– July 3, 1951
Drawings and Paintings by Eugene Berman
July 5, 1951
– August 7, 1951
Mary Cassatt and her Parisian Friends
October 16, 1951
– December 2, 1951
Adja Yunkers: His Prints
October 16, 1951
– November 14, 1951
Paintings by Sueo Serisawa
November 16, 1951
– December 27, 1951
Fernand Leger's Le Cirque
December 1, 1951
– January 6, 1952
Knud Merrild
December 28, 1951
– January 28, 1952
Lithographs and Drawings by George Bellows
January 20, 1952
– March 5, 1952
Paintings by Fritz Faiss
January 29, 1952
– March 4, 1952
Toulouse-Lautrec's 'Elles' - Works from the Crossett Collection
February 5, 1952
– March 27, 1952
Lorser Feitelson Retrospective
March 21, 1952
– April 27, 1952
Galka E. Scheyer Collection - The Blue Four - Kandinsky
April 1, 1952
– June 1, 1952
Paintings by Edgar Ewing
April 2, 1952
– April 30, 1952
Paintings by Jonathon Scott
May 2, 1952
– May 31, 1952
Paintings by Martin Mondrus
June 1, 1952
– June 29, 1952
Greene and Greene Architectural Exhibition
June 4, 1952
– June 29, 1952
Paintings by Jack Zajac
July 1, 1952
– August 2, 1952
Paintings by Yehoshua Kovarsky
September 10, 1952
– October 10, 1952
Paintings by Robert Frame
October 12, 1952
– November 12, 1952
Paintings by Kenneth Nack
November 13, 1952
– December 10, 1952
Adolph Loewi Treasures
November 30, 1952
– January 17, 1953
Japanese and Chinese Prints, the Judson D. Metzgar Collection
November 30, 1952
– January 4, 1953
Paintings, Prints, and Drawings by June Wayne
November 30, 1952
– January 4, 1953
Paintings and Drawings by James Couper Wright
December 12, 1952
– January 13, 1953
A.J. Miller
January 1, 1953
– December 31, 1954
Brueghel
January 1, 1953
– December 31, 1954
Fantin-Latour
January 1, 1953
– December 31, 1954
Paintings and Drawings by Adele Watson
January 4, 1953
– February 5, 1953
Paintings by Keith A. Crown
January 16, 1953
– February 15, 1953
Auguste Ravier Paintings
January 18, 1953
– March 15, 1953
Paris Impressions, Photographs by Sanford Roth
February 8, 1953
– March 8, 1953
Paintings by Frode Dann
February 18, 1953
– March 15, 1953
Paintings by Ruth Kempster
March 18, 1953
– April 15, 1953
Paintings by Leonard Edmondson
April 17, 1953
– May 17, 1953
Paintings by Roger Kuntz
May 20, 1953
– June 23, 1953
Paintings and Drawings by Arnold Mesches
June 26, 1953
– July 26, 1953
Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Hilton Simmons Collection
July 12, 1953
– November 3, 1953
J.C. Orozco Memorial Exhibition
July 12, 1953
– August 1, 1953
Paintings by Frank Gonzales
July 31, 1953
– August 31, 1953
Venice Photos
August 15, 1953
– September 28, 1953
Paintings and Drawings by Walt Peregoy
September 4, 1953
– October 11, 1953
Mobile Sculpture
October 4, 1953
– November 8, 1953
Paintings by Noel Quinn
October 15, 1953
– November 20, 1953
Prints From the Anna Burnet Hardin Collection
November 10, 1953
– December 2, 1953
Turn of the Century: The Minnich Collection
November 19, 1953
– December 31, 1954
Paintings by Helen Lundeberg
November 22, 1953
– December 22, 1953
June Wayne
November 30, 1953
– January 4, 1954
Paintings by Clinton Adams
January 2, 1954
– January 31, 1954
Color Photograms by Elwood Decker
February 2, 1954
Harold Gebhardt and Jack Horton
February 7, 1954
– March 7, 1954
Women Painters of the West
March 7, 1954
– April 4, 1954
Jirayr Zorthian
March 12, 1954
– April 11, 1954
Peter Krasnow- 35 Years of his Art
March 19, 1954
– April 25, 1954
Joseph Mugnaini
April 16, 1954
– May 16, 1954
Gene McComas
May 21, 1954
– June 20, 1954
David Schnabel and Lee Mazzotti
May 21, 1954
– July 28, 1954
George Grosz Retrospective
June 25, 1954
– July 25, 1954
Douglas McClellan
June 25, 1954
– July 27, 1954
Richard Shore
June 29, 1954
Karl S. Benjamin
July 30, 1954
– October 5, 1954
Karl S. Benjamin (1925–2012) had been painting for only four years when the Pasadena Art Institute presented his work in 1954.
The New York School
August 13, 1954
– September 20, 1954
John Taylor Arms Memorial Exhibition
October 3, 1954
– November 19, 1954
Leonard Edmondson
October 8, 1954
– December 16, 1954
Edward A. Reep
October 8, 1954
– November 7, 1954
Eric Gibberd
November 12, 1954
– December 12, 1954
Georgian Silver by the Batemans
December 10, 1954
– January 18, 1955
Ynez Johnston
December 17, 1954
– January 16, 1955
Drawings by Hector Xavier
January 9, 1955
– March 10, 1955
Paul Darrow
January 21, 1955
– February 20, 1955
Phillis Helper Skelton
February 25, 1955
– March 27, 1955
F. Tolles Chamberlin Retrospective Exhibition
February 27, 1955
– March 27, 1955
Nueberger Collection of Twentieth Century American Painting
March 14, 1955
– April 3, 1955
Richards Ruben
April 1, 1955
– May 8, 1955
Ada Korsakaite's Stations of the Cross
April 3, 1955
– April 17, 1955
Prints from the Thornton Collection
April 23, 1955
– May 22, 1955
TheTemple of Flora - A Selection of the Famous Dr. Thornton Color Flower Prints
May 1, 1955
– May 14, 1955
Jae Carmichael
May 13, 1955
– June 19, 1955
Saul Steinlauf
May 22, 1955
– July 10, 1955
The Blue Four - Galka E. Scheyer Collection
May 27, 1955
– August 30, 1955
A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Etchings, Lithographs by Howard Warshaw
June 24, 1955
– July 25, 1955
T'ang Horses From the Swinden Collection
July 19, 1955
– November 27, 1955
David Schnabel and Lee Mazzotti
July 29, 1955
– September 4, 1955
Max Beckmann
August 28, 1955
– September 25, 1955
New Paintings by John Ferren
September 9, 1955
– October 9, 1955
Portraits by Photography, Rita Graves
October 14, 1955
– November 13, 1955
James Hueter
October 14, 1955
– November 13, 1955
Twenty Contemporary American Paintings from the Collection of the Museum Purchase Fund of New York
November 8, 1955
– December 11, 1955
English Sporting Art
November 11, 1955
– December 11, 1955
Gibberd: Recent Paintings
November 12, 1955
– December 12, 1955
Adelaide Fogg
November 18, 1955
– December 18, 1955
Albert Londraville
December 23, 1955
– January 22, 1956
Enrique Clement
January 1, 1956
– December 31, 1957
Lithographs By Alson Clark
January 15, 1956
– February 12, 1956
Clare Victore Dwiggins
February 5, 1956
– February 19, 1956
Leon Golub
February 10, 1956
– March 11, 1956
Ejnar Hansen Retrospective Exhibition
March 11, 1956
– April 8, 1956
Howald Watercolors
March 11, 1956
– April 16, 1956
Cornelia Runyon
March 16, 1956
– April 15, 1956
Alfred H. Maurer: A Retrospective Group of Paintings
April 13, 1956
– May 20, 1956
John McLaughlin
April 20, 1956
– May 20, 1956
Alberto Burri
May 9, 1956
– May 20, 1956
Dorothy Brown
May 25, 1956
– June 26, 1956
Ruth C. Elliott
June 29, 1956
– July 29, 1956
J. Scott - Albert Stewart
July 14, 1956
Illusion and Reality
August 5, 1956
– September 9, 1956
Frederick S. Wight
August 17, 1956
– September 27, 1956
Whitman Mural
October 9, 1956
James Grant
November 16, 1956
– December 16, 1956
Peter Takal
December 9, 1956
– December 23, 1956
Pearson and Sheets
December 16, 1956
Oskar Fischinger
December 21, 1956
– January 27, 1957
Albert Londraville
December 23, 1956
– February 5, 1957
Paintings by Julio de Diego
February 1, 1957
– March 3, 1957
Clifford Nelson
March 8, 1957
– April 2, 1957
Paintings by Jan Stussy
April 5, 1957
– May 5, 1957
This exhibition featured 33 works by California-based artist Jan Stussy (1921–1990).
Paintings by Bentley Schaad
May 10, 1957
– June 9, 1957
Chagall - Seventieth Anniversary Exhibition
May 26, 1957
– July 30, 1957
Paintings by Hans Burkhardt
June 14, 1957
– July 14, 1957
Alice Stallknecht Paintings
July 17, 1957
– August 18, 1957
Drawings and Prints from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection
August 2, 1957
– November 3, 1957
Enamels by Margaret Montgomery
August 9, 1957
– September 29, 1957
Dan Lutz
August 23, 1957
– October 13, 1957
Silver and Jewelry by Harry Osaki
October 4, 1957
– November 3, 1957
Paintings by William J. Schmidt
October 18, 1957
– November 17, 1957
Paintings and Drawings by Arshile Gorky
January 3, 1958
– February 2, 1958
Sculpture by Anna Mahler
January 3, 1958
– February 16, 1958
The Blue Four From the Galka E. Scheyer Collection
February 5, 1958
– March 7, 1958
Enrique Climent
February 7, 1958
– March 2, 1958
Drawings by Jose Perotti
February 7, 1958
– March 23, 1958
Marion Pike
February 9, 1958
Lenard Kester
February 25, 1958
– June 4, 1958
Paintings by Betty Shutes, Roger Hayward and Susan Lautmann
March 9, 1958
– April 20, 1958
The Birth of Art
April 1, 1958
– April 30, 1958
Toulouse-Lautrec 'Elles'
April 15, 1958
– May 25, 1958
Bradley Walker Tomlin (Memorial Exhibition)
April 17, 1958
– May 15, 1958
Architectural Ceramics by Wayne Long
May 6, 1958
– June 11, 1958
Anya Fisher - Exhibition of Paintings
June 10, 1958
– July 16, 1958
Textiles and Ceramics by Bernard Kester
June 17, 1958
– July 23, 1958
Prints by Stanley William Hayter
July 15, 1958
– September 7, 1958
This exhibition showcased Hayter’s graphic work, with loans from the National Gallery of Art’s Rosenwald Collection and R. M. Light & Co. Fine Prints.
Paintings by Irene and Gerd Koch
July 22, 1958
– September 9, 1958
Paintings by Donald Yacoe
September 23, 1958
– October 29, 1958
The New Renaissance in Italy
October 7, 1958
– November 16, 1958
Don Laviere Turner
November 4, 1958
– December 10, 1958
Ceramics and Drawings by Bernard Leach
November 23, 1958
– December 31, 1959
Andre Masson
December 3, 1958
– January 3, 1959
Ceramics, Sculpture and Paintings by Peter H. Voulkos
December 16, 1958
– January 25, 1959
Utrillo
December 23, 1958
– February 6, 1959
Edgar Taylor
January 1, 1959
– December 31, 1960
John Springer
January 1, 1959
– December 31, 1960
Milton Peters, John Altoon and John de Kamer
January 3, 1959
– January 18, 1959
Paintings by Herman Cherry, Sculpture by David Slivka
January 6, 1959
– February 10, 1959
Paintings and Rock Sculpture by Susana Guevara
February 3, 1959
– March 5, 1959
Beatrice Wood
February 17, 1959
– March 25, 1959
Wesley Chamberlin, Jim Barrowman, Paul Hauge
February 19, 1959
– March 22, 1959
Graphic Work by Leonard Baskin
March 10, 1959
– April 10, 1959
Prints, Paintings and Drawings by John Paul Jones
March 10, 1959
– April 16, 1959
James D. Phelan Competition
April 14, 1959
– May 17, 1959
Gutai Paintings
April 14, 1959
– May 27, 1959
Paintings by Dorothy Stratton
April 21, 1959
– May 27, 1959
Drawings by Morris Graves
May 24, 1959
– June 28, 1959
A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by William Millarc
June 2, 1959
– July 12, 1959
Ernest Freed
June 2, 1959
– July 8, 1959
W. De Kooning
June 17, 1959
– July 14, 1959
George Figureida
July 12, 1959
– August 12, 1959
Jerry Connor
July 12, 1959
– August 12, 1959
Nicol Craig Allen
July 12, 1959
– August 12, 1959
Orel Zell Tucker
July 12, 1959
– August 12, 1959
1949-1959 - Decade in the Contemporary Galleries
July 19, 1959
– September 15, 1959
Roger Barr Recent Collage
August 16, 1959
– August 31, 1959
Ceramics by Thomas Ferreira
September 22, 1959
– October 22, 1959
Paintings by Ruth Codman
September 22, 1959
– October 23, 1959
Selections from the Storrier-Stearns Collection
October 27, 1959
– December 2, 1959
Paintings by Robert Alan Smith
October 27, 1959
– December 10, 1959
Walter Askin
November 29, 1959
– January 4, 1960
Hudson River School
November 30, 1959
– June 4, 1960
Ceramics by Ed Traynor
December 15, 1959
– January 24, 1960
Paintings by Samuel R. Clayberger
December 15, 1959
– January 24, 1960
Current Exhibitions
Future Exhibitions
- Mariana: Velázquez’s Portrait of a Queen from the Museo Nacional del Prado
- Retrospect: 50 Years at the Norton Simon Museum
- Work in Progress: The Art of Making Paintings