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.

Home of Walter Hopps

When Walter Hopps accepted a curatorial position at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1962, he purchased a home at this location on N. Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena. By the summer of 1969, when Bruce Nauman moved in with fellow artist Richard Jackson, Hopps had left for Washington, D.C., to become director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Nauman remained there until 1970, after which he moved to an apartment nearby on S. Fair Oaks Boulevard. Jackson later built a studio on the property.

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Works of Art

  • Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps

    Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps, 1959, Edward Kienholz. Paint and resin on wood, printed color reproductions, ink on paper, vertebrae, telephone parts, candy, dental molds, metal, pencil, and leather. 87 x 42 x 21 in. The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of Lannan Foundation. © Nancy Reddin Kienholz. Photo: Susan Einstein

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  • 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