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.

Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Home and Studio

In 1951, Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg established their home and studios at this location. In 1959, it was here that a group of abstract painters, including Feitelson, met with curator Jules Langsner to discuss an exhibition of their work. Because of the streamlined, geometric forms they used in their works, these artists came to be known as the “Abstract Classicists,” or California hard-edge painters.

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Works of Art

  • Untitled (Red on White Optical)

    Untitled (Red on White Optical), 1964, Lorser Feitelson. Oil on canvas. 60 x 40 in. Courtesy of D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York. Image © Feitelson Arts Foundation, courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts. © Photo by Casey Brown

  • Magical Space Forms

    Magical Space Forms, 1948, Lorser Feitelson. Oil on board. 30 x 39 ¾ in. Collection of Bunty and Tom Armstrong, New York. © Feitelson Arts Foundation, courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts. © Photography by Gerard Vuilleumier

  • Blue Planet

    Blue Planet, 1965, Helen Lundeberg. Acrylic on canvas. 60 x 60 in. The Marilynn and Carl Thoma Collection. © Feitelson Arts Foundation, courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts

Explore the Archive

  • Abstract Classicists

    Abstract Classicists meet at Lorser Feitelson’s studio in Los Angeles, May 10, 1959