Artists I Love – Figures from the LACMA Permanent Collection
When we vacationed in LA in the summer of 2024 I knew I wanted to see the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). It was one of my favorite museums when I was growing up in LA and when I lived there again as a young adult. The main reason I wanted to go was because of a special exhibition of Ed Ruscha’s lifetime of work. He is among the top artists in my life. You can see why in the post, ‘Artists I Love: Ed Ruscha‘ from 2015. The images in that post were from a retrospective of his work at the Denver Museum of Art and covers most of what was in the LACMA exhibition.
I didn’t know what I would find in the permanent collection but was very pleasantly surprised. I easily took over 100 photographs of the art in that collection and obviously had to edit it down. No surprise, I found the figurative theme most interesting. This selection is centered in the Expressionist paintings of the early 20th century. The paintings that are not in that movement either lead the way into the expressive use of form and color the expressionists are known for or show the lasting affect expressionism had on painting later in the century.
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The Opera 'Messalina' at Bordeaux, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, oil on canvas, 1900-1901
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Nude on a Chair, Edouard Vuillard, oil on cardboard, 1904
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Sand Diggers on the Tiber, Erich Heckel, oil on canvas, 1909
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Siblings, Erich Heckel, woodcut, 1912
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Sketch for Synchromy in Blue Violet, Morgan Russell, oil on canvas, 1913
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Bathers, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, oil on canvas, 1913
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Reclining Girl, Max Kaus, LIthograph, 1919
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Modern Music, Modern Dance, Karl Jakob Hirsch, lithograph, 1919
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Tea, Henri Matisse, oil on canvas, 1919
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Sunlight, Max Pechstein, oil on canvas, 1921
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Standing Figure, Albert Muller, stained wood, 1924
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Sleeping Woman with Boy, Hermann A Scherer, painted wood, 1926
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Bust of a Woman (Dora Maar), Pablo PIcasso, oil on canvas, 1941
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Negro Man (Claude McKay), Beauford Delaney, oil on canvas, 1944
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'California' copied from 1965 in 1987, David Hockney, acrylic on canvas, 1987
