François Boucher was a French painter,draughtsman and etcher,who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes,decorative allegories,and pastoral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century.
The National Gallery of Art,and its attached Sculpture Garden,is a national art museum in Washington,D.C.,United States,located on the National Mall,between 3rd and 9th Streets,at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge,the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon,Ailsa Mellon Bruce,Lessing J. Rosenwald,Samuel Henry Kress,Rush Harrison Kress,Peter Arrell Browne Widener,Joseph E. Widener,and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings,drawings,prints,photographs,sculpture,medals,and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present,including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row,adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits.
John Carter Brown III was the director of the U.S. National Gallery of Art from 1969 to 1992 and a leading figure in American intellectual life. Under Brown's direction,the National Gallery became one of the leading art museums in the United States,if not the world. He was known as a champion of the arts and public access to art at a time of decreased public spending on the humanities.
Kim Dingle is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist working across painting,sculpture,photography,found imagery,and installation. Her practice explores themes of American culture,history,and gender politics through both figurative and abstract approaches.
Kerry James Marshall is an American artist and professor,known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2017,Marshall was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. He was born and raised in Birmingham,Alabama,and moved in childhood to South Central Los Angeles. He has spent much of his career in Chicago,Illinois.
Adrian Saxe is an American ceramic artist who was born in Glendale,California in 1943. He lives and works in Los Angeles,California.
Earl Roger Mandle,better known as Roger Mandle,was an American museum administrator,curator,art historian,and college president. He was president of the Rhode Island School of Design from 1993 to 2008. He was director at Toledo Museum of Art (1977–1988),and deputy director and chief curator of National Gallery of Art (1988–1993).
Fourteen Rembrandt paintings are held in collections in Southern California. This accumulation began with J. Paul Getty's purchase of the Portrait of Marten Looten in 1938,and is now the third-largest concentration of Rembrandt paintings in the United States. Portrait of Marten Looten is now housed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
J. Keith Wilson is an American Asian art curator. He is the Associate Director and curator of Ancient Chinese art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,DC. Wilson is the former chief curator of Asian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Suzanne Muchnic is an art writer who was a staff art reporter and art critic at the Los Angeles Times for 31 years. She has also written books on artists,collectors,and museums.
Edith Robinson Wyle was an American artist and arts patron,founder of the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles.
Michael Govan is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Prior to his current position,Govan worked as the director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York City.
Michael C. McMillen is a sculptor,installation artist,and short filmmaker from Los Angeles,California.
Cecil Fergerson was an African-American art curator and community activist. He is widely credited with fostering African-American and Latin-American art communities in Los Angeles for more than 50 years,and was named a "Living Cultural Treasure" by the city in 1999. While working at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),Fergerson co-founded the Black Arts Council (BAC) to advocate for African-American artists and support their community. His advocacy at LACMA and BAC led to seminal exhibitions of African-American art in the early 1970s.
Charlotte Cotton is a curator of and writer about photography.
Pratapaditya Pal is an Indian scholar of Southeast Asian and Himalayan art and culture,specializing particularly in the history of art of India,Nepal and Tibet. He has served as a curator of South Asian art at several prominent US museums including Boston's Museum of Fine Arts,the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,and the Art Institute of Chicago,where he has organized more than 22 major exhibitions and helped build the museums' collection. He has also written over 60 books and catalogs,and over 250 articles on the subject,taught at several universities,and served as the editor of the Indian art magazine,Marg. In 2009 he was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India for his contributions to the study of Indian art.
Christine Y. Kim is an American curator of contemporary art. She is currently the Britton Family Curator-at-Large at Tate. Prior to this post,Kim held the position of Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Before her appointment at LACMA in 2009,she was Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem in New York. She is best known for her exhibitions of and publications on artists of color,diasporic and marginalized discourses,and 21st-century technology and artistic practices.
George Kuwayama is an American art curator who spent most of his career at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Edgar "Pete" Peters Bowron is an American art historian and curator. Bowron served a director of both the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Harvard Art Museums. He is a scholar of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian art,especially on the artist Pompeo Batoni.
