Explore the Era

Delve into the postwar Los Angeles art world in this online archive, which provides additional material related to the exhibitions on view at the Getty Center. Learn about hipsters and happenings, and the venues across the city where all the action took place through images from the archives and first-hand accounts with the artists.

From the Archive

Thomas Leavitt, Llyn Foulkes, and Walter Hopps

Thomas Leavitt, Llyn Foulkes, and Walter Hopps at the opening of Foulkes's exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum, September 18, 1962. Image courtesy of and © Llyn Foulkes

The Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), originally founded in 1922 as the Pasadena Art Institute, was home to numerous ground-breaking exhibitions throughout the 1960s under directors Thomas Leavitt and Walter Hopps. These included New Painting of Common Objects (1962), the first Marcel Duchamp retrospective in 1963, and solo exhibitions of artists such as Llyn Foulkes, Sam Francis, Emerson Woelffer, and Joseph Cornell.

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Works of Art

  • Flanders

    Flanders, 1961–62, Llyn Foulkes. Mixed media. 54 x 36 x 14 in. and 16 x 15 3/4 in. Collection of Ernest & Eunice White. © Llyn Foulkes. Photo © Douglas M. Parker Studio

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  • Llyn Foulkes at Pasadena Art Museum

    Llyn Foulkes stands by his work Flanders (1960–62) at the opening of his solo exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum, September 18, 1962. Image courtesy of and © Llyn Foulkes