Decorative Arts and Design
Decorative Arts and Design
The collection includes European and American decorative arts and design from the medieval period to the present. The Arts and Crafts collection, including work from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe, is one of the most comprehensive in the country. Other strengths are 16th-19th century European ceramics, enamels, furniture, glass and metalwork; and modern design, with an emphasis on design from California, and modern and contemporary studio ceramics and glass.
Charles Eames and Ray Eames
The Magnificent Eleven
Does the focus on blockbuster temporary exhibitions cause us to miss treasures found in our own permanent collections? The Los Angeles Times posed this very question to a dozen curators and art specialists who then composed a list of the best museum pieces throughout the region. Eleven artworks were chosen from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Profoundly varied, pieces range from the ancient to the contemporary. We call them the Magnificent Eleven.
New Acquisition: Elevator Surround from the Chicago Stock Exchange Building
Historians have called Chicago architect Louis Sullivan “the father of skyscrapers” and “the father of modernism.” Together with H. H. Richardson and Frank Lloyd Wright, Sullivan forms the “recognized trinity of American architecture,” according to the eminent scholar James O’Gorman...
The Untold History of Design at LACMA
Around 1957, the Art Division of the Los Angeles County Museum (then located downtown in Exposition Park), launched a little-known design and typography program that utterly transformed the museum’s image. The program was spearheaded by James H. Elliott, who arrived at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1956 as Assistant Chief Curator of Art...
