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.

M. J. Royer’s Book Shop

M. J. Royer’s Book Shop was an antiquarian bookseller that served as an early alternative exhibition space for artists such as William Copley, who showed his work there in the 1940s.

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