2010 - 2019
Exhibition Archive for 2010 - 2019
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
April 23, 2010
– August 23, 2010
Hiroshige: Visions of Japan
June 4, 2010
– January 17, 2011
Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel: An Artwork by John Cage
September 24, 2010
– March 28, 2011
Raphael's "The Small Cowper Madonna" on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington
November 5, 2010
– January 24, 2011
Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties
March 25, 2011
– August 15, 2011
Where Art Meets Science: Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu-Buddhist World
April 22, 2011
– August 1, 2011
Vermeer's "Woman with a Lute" on Loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
July 8, 2011
– September 26, 2011
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
October 1, 2011
– April 2, 2012
The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period
October 1, 2011
– April 2, 2012
Memling's "Portrait of a Man" on Loan from The Frick Collection
January 27, 2012
– April 30, 2012
Lessons of the Cherry Blossom: Japanese Woodblock Prints
April 20, 2012
– September 3, 2012
Significant Objects: The Spell of Still Life
July 20, 2012
– January 21, 2013
Studies in Desperation: A Suite by Connor Everts
October 5, 2012
– February 11, 2013
Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait," 1889, on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington
December 7, 2012
– March 4, 2013
"monument" on the survival of Mrs. Reppin: An Artwork by Dan Flavin
March 6, 2013
– August 19, 2013
Beyond Brancusi: The Space of Sculpture
April 26, 2013
– January 6, 2014
Breaking Ground: 20th-Century Latin American Art at the Norton Simon Museum
September 13, 2013
– November 4, 2013
Goya's Don Pedro, Duque de Osuna, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York
December 6, 2013
– March 3, 2014
Unflinching Vision: Goya’s Rare Prints
December 6, 2013
– March 3, 2014
In the Land of Snow: Buddhist Art of the Himalayas
March 28, 2014
– August 25, 2014
Face It: The Photographic Portrait
April 4, 2014
– August 11, 2014
Home and Away: The Printed Works of Ruth Asawa
September 19, 2014
– January 19, 2015
Lock, Stock and Barrel: Norton Simon’s Purchase of Duveen Brothers Gallery
October 24, 2014
– April 27, 2015
Manet's "The Railway" on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington
December 5, 2014
– March 2, 2015
Human/Nature: Photographers Constructing the Natural World
March 6, 2015
– August 31, 2015
Tête-à-tête: Three Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay
March 27, 2015
– June 22, 2015
Fragonard’s Enterprise: The Artist and the Literature of Travel
July 17, 2015
– January 4, 2016
A Revolution of the Palette: The First Synthetic Blues and their Impact on French Artists
July 17, 2015
– January 4, 2016
Indoor/Outdoor: Vuillard’s "Landscapes and Interiors"
October 16, 2015
– February 15, 2016
Duchamp to Pop
March 4, 2016
– August 29, 2016
Drawing, Dreaming and Desire: Works on Paper by Sam Francis
April 8, 2016
– July 25, 2016
Dark Visions: Mid-Century Macabre
September 2, 2016
– January 16, 2017
States of Mind: Picasso Lithographs 1945–1960
October 14, 2016
– February 13, 2017
Van Gogh’s ‘Bedroom’ on Loan From the Art Institute of Chicago
December 9, 2016
– March 6, 2017
Serial Flirtations: Rotari’s Muses
March 3, 2017
– July 31, 2017
Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California
April 7, 2017
– September 25, 2017
R.I.P.: On Art and Mourning
September 8, 2017
– November 27, 2017
Taking Shape: Degas as Sculptor
November 10, 2017
– April 9, 2018
The Norton Simon Museum presents Taking Shape: Degas as Sculptor, an illuminating exhibition that explores the compulsive nature of Edgar Degas’s artistic practice. Focusing on the Museum’s collection of modèles, the first and only set of bronzes cast from the artist’s original wax and clay statuettes, Taking Shape considers the affinities among sculpting, painting and drawing in Degas’s oeuvre. By presenting the modèle bronzes alongside related compositions from the Norton Simon’s renowned collection, this expansive body of Degas’s works celebrates the artist’s boundless enthusiasm for creation, and the act of making as an end in itself.
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917), The Tub, 1889, Bronze no. 26, modèle cast, Norton Simon Art Foundation
Rembrandt’s ‘Self Portrait at the Age of 34’ on loan from The National Gallery, London
December 8, 2017
– March 5, 2018
Rembrandt’s striking self-portrait from 1640, on loan from The National Gallery, London, arrives in the U.S. this winter season for this first time. Titled Self Portrait at the Age of 34, the painting captures the image of the artist in his middle age: affluent, self-confident and wise.
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), Self Portrait at the Age of 34, 1640, oil on canvas, 102 x 80 cm, © The National Gallery, London
Rembrandt: Prints “of a Particular Spirit”
December 8, 2017
– March 5, 2018
Twenty-one prints from the Museum’s expansive collection of Rembrandt etchings are on view in this intimate but captivating exhibition, organized to celebrate the installation of Rembrandt’s Self Portrait at the Age of 34, on loan this season from The National Gallery, London.
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), Self-Portrait with Saskia, 1636, Etching, State I, Norton Simon Art Foundation , © Norton Simon Art Foundation
In Search of New Markets: Craft Traditions in Nineteenth-Century India
April 6, 2018
– January 7, 2019
This intimate exhibition explores how Indian craft traditions were re-imagined for the export market in the 19th century.
Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly
June 1, 2018
– October 29, 2018
Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly illustrates how Kelly, one of the progenitors of modernism, drew inspiration from nature and translated that into his own form of abstraction.
Once Upon a Tapestry: Woven Tales of Helen and Dido
December 7, 2018
– May 27, 2019
This captivating exhibition presents rare tapestries and related cartoons, or preparatory drawings, from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Royal Hunt and Storm (detail), c. 1630–35
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Italian, 1610–1662)
Gouache and black chalk on paper, laid down on linen
109-5/8 x 138 in. (278.4 x 350.5 cm)
The Norton Simon Foundation
Titian’s 'Portrait of a Lady in White,' c. 1561, on loan from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
December 19, 2018
– March 25, 2019
Titian’s beguiling Lady in White from c. 1561, on loan from the Dresden Gemäldegalerie, makes it Southern California debut at the Simon Museum this winter.
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, Italian, c. 1488/90–1576)
Portrait of a Lady in White, c. 1561
Oil on canvas, 102 x 86 cm
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Photo: Elke Estel/ Hans-Peter Klut
Matisse/Odalisque
February 22, 2019
– June 17, 2019
This focus exhibition explores the theme of the odalisque in European art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Featuring pictures by Henri Matisse, Frédéric Bazille, and Pablo Picasso, among others, it shows that artists employed dazzling combinations of color and ornament to foreground the orientalist subject as a work of pictorial fantasy.
[Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Odalisque with Tambourine (Harmony in Blue) (detail) 1926, Oil on canvas, Norton Simon Art Foundation, © 2019 Succession H. Matisse/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
Odalisque with Tambourine (Harmony in Blue) (detail) 1926
Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)
Oil on canvas
Norton Simon Art Foundation
© 2018 Succession H. Matisse/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The Sweetness of Life: Three 18th-Century French Paintings from The Frick Collection
June 14, 2019
– September 9, 2019
The Museum hosts three remarkable 18th-century French genre paintings from The Frick Collection in New York this summer, part of an ongoing reciprocal exchange program. These artfully constructed visions of contemporary life and fashion, as depicted by François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin and Jean-Baptiste Greuze, provide viewers with an intimate look at the lives of middle-class French women of the 1740s and 1750s.
François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
A Lady on Her Day Bed, 1743
Oil on canvas
22 1/2 x 26 7/8 in. (57.2 x 68.3 cm)
Purchased by The Frick Collection, 1937
AIR LAND SEA: A Lithographic Suite by William Crutchfield
July 19, 2019
– November 4, 2019
This exhibition presents a rare look at the AIR LAND SEA suite by William Crutchfield, printed at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1970. Demonstrating the artist’s master draftsmanship, keen understanding of engineering and his wry sense of humor, the suite features trains, ships and airplanes all portrayed as overbuilt, fantastical models of modernity.
Air Land Sea VIII: Cathedral Steamer, 1970
William Richard Crutchfield (American, 1932-2015)
Lithograph
Sheet: 12-1/2 x 11-1/2 in. (31.75 x 29.21 cm.); Image: 9 x 9-1/4 in. (22.86 x 23.50 cm.)
Norton Simon Museum, Anonymous Gift, 1972
© 2019 William Crutchfield
By Day & by Night: Paris in the Belle Époque
October 4, 2019
– March 2, 2020
By Day & by Night celebrates the innovative spirit of art and culture in Paris during the belle époque through a selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from the Museum’s collections.
Paul Gauguin's 'The Swineherd,' 1888, on loan from LACMA
November 13, 2019
– April 22, 2024
Paul Gauguin’s picturesque painting The Swineherd from 1888 is on long-term loan from LACMA, joining related post-Impressionist works in the Museum’s 19th-century art wing.
Beyond the World We Know: Abstraction in Photography
November 22, 2019
– August 2, 2021
In their integration of realism and abstraction, the gelatin silver prints on view in Beyond the World We Know demonstrate that the simplest subjects can be evocative works of art when composition, texture, tone and light are handled by artists of great imagination and virtuosity.
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