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Drawing the Line: Conserving Master Drawings with a Light Touch
Nancy Yocco in the Drawings Conservation Studio at the Getty Museum The intriguing exhibition The Secret Life of Drawings—closing this Sunday at the Getty Center—unveils hidden clues to unfinished...
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Honey, They’re Playing Our Painting
Many couples have a favorite song, a tune that conjures up memories of blissful infatuation and unending devotion. Elia and Maranatha have a painting. Dancer Taking a Bow (The Prima Ballerina), Edgar...
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The Human Predicament, in Pastel
Edgar Degas’s pastel drawing “Waiting” epitomizes his art and resonates with our own experience of big-city life Waiting, about 1882, Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas. Pastel on paper, 19 x 24 in. The J....
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Grad Intern Diary: Laurel Garber
As the 2014–15 Getty Graduate Intern Program wraps up, participants explain what they’ve been doing all year—and sum up their experience in three words In my year at the Getty I’ve been working in the...
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Pastels, Portraits, and Paramours
An installation of pastels by Jean-Étienne Liotard provides an inviting introduction to the Swiss artist Portrait of John, Lord Mountstuart, later 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute (detail), 1763,...
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A Double-Sided Drawing Brings a Baron to Life
Jean-Étienne Liotard used an unusual technique to illuminate an 18th-century portrait of the Baron de Lubières Portrait of Charles Benjamin de Langes de Montmirail, Baron de Lubières, about 1760,...
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