recent acquisitions

Inside the Papers of Pioneering Artist and Scholar Harmony Hammond

Newly acquired papers provide insight into feminist and lesbian art.

Sarah Zabrodski | September 14, 2016

Colonialism as child’s play.

Modest maiden or lascivious lover?

Getty Museum staff take home honors for exhibitions and programs in 2015.

Timothy Potts | February 9, 2016

A newly acquired masterpiece from the great age of clock-making.

Jeffrey Weaver | January 12, 2016

Searing images of poverty in 1960s Brazil.

Sarah Zabrodski | November 9, 2015

Expensive flavored waters predate Whole Foods by centuries.

Rhiannon Knol | November 6, 2015

A manuscript page bursting with art historical mysteries.

Elizabeth Morrison | November 3, 2015

A glimpse at Syria and Lebanon in the mid-1800s.

Annelisa Stephan | October 1, 2015

A delicately carved statuette of Saint Philip joins the collection.

Amy Hood | September 30, 2015

For 19th-century photographers, the negative was the true work of art.

An elusive masterpiece joins the collection.