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Nazis Collecting Art: Art Dealer Gustav Cramer’s Wartime Records

By Isabella Zuralski | Published: August 27, 2012
Postcard showing the interior of Galerie G. Cramer in The Hague, circa 1967

A rare resource for the study of the art market in Europe during World War II is now available for research at the Getty Research Institute: the correspondence of Gustav Cramer and his son Hans Max Cramer, owners of the G. Cramer… More»

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Posted in Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Photographs, Film, and Video

Together American

By Sarah Waldorf | Published: July 4, 2012
Dorothea Lange, American, 1942 Gelatin silver print 7 15/16 x 12 in. 2000.52.1

The Fourth of July is a holiday of celebration, but also of reflection. During World War II, Dorothea Lange created a series of poignant photographs depicting the internment of Japanese Americans. Uprooted, these families could only take what they could… More»

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