The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections

by J. Paul Getty Museum; Walsh, John; Gribbon, Deborah Ann

• ISBN13: 9780892364763
• ISBN10: 0892364769
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-04
• Publisher: J Paul Getty Museum Pubns

Summary

In December 1997 the J. Paul Getty Museum will open its new home in the spectacular Getty Center, designed by the renowned architect Richard Meier, and dramatically sited in the Santa Monica Mountains above Los Angeles. This will constitute the third home for the Getty Museum collections, which were first displayed in J. Paul Getty's ranch house in Malibu and later were housed in the splendid reconstruction of an ancient Roman villa that Getty had built on the grounds of his Malibu estate. This book contains a lively text by the Director and Associate Director of the Museum along with archival and recently commissioned photographs to provide a biography of the Museum's benefactor. In addition, the book presents a history of the buildings that have housed his collections and of the collections themselves--first formed by Getty in his lifetime and greatly expanded following his generous and much-heralded bequest.

Table of Contents

Foreword	5	(2)
Harold M. Williams
Introduction	7	(4)
Getty's Career and Fortune	11	(10)
Getty's Collection	21	(8)
The House-museum in Malibu	29	(12)
The Roman Villa	41	(26)
The Getty Museum in a New Era	67	(14)
The Getty Museum at the Getty Center	81	(18)
The Villa in the Twenty-First Century	99	(6)
The Getty Museum's Collections	105	(166)
Afterword	271	(2)
Appendix 1: The Programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust	273	(2)
Appendix 2: Trustees and Senior Staff	275	(6)
Index	281	(8)
Photograph Credits	289