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.

Dalton’s Waffle #1

Dalton's Waffle #1

Dalton's Waffle #1, 1960, Ed Moses. Crushed newspaper, shellac, and wood. 39 1/2 x 34 3/4 in. Collection of Jim Newman & Jane Ivory. Image courtesy of and © Ed Moses

Ed Moses created Dalton’s Waffle #1 during a brief stay in San Francisco in 1960, where he mingled with Bay Area artists Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, Jay DeFeo, and Wally Hedrick in the Fillmore district. Merging assemblage and abstract painting, he tightly packed a wooden picture frame with crumpled pages from an entire issue of the San Francisco Chronicle, embedded small objects in the mass, and stuck it all in place with shellac varnish. Though his time in Northern California was short, the work that he made there was crucial in the way it refigured paintings as objects, demonstrating the kind of experimentation with materials that would characterize Moses’s career, and that anticipates his later resin paintings.

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Works of Art

  • Hegemann Wedge

    Hegemann Wedge, 1971, Ed Moses. Powdered pigment, acrylic, and resin on canvas. 96 x 82 in. Collection of Phyllis & John Kleinberg. Image courtesy of and © Ed Moses

Explore the Archive

  • Video: Ed Moses

    Video: Ed Moses speaks about his work, November 2009

  • Poster for Ed Moses exhibition

    Poster for Ed Moses exhibition at Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles, 1969. Courtesy Mizuno Gallery. The Getty Research Institute, Gift of Michael Asher , 2009.M.30

  • Ed Moses, ca 1966

    Ed Moses, ca. 1966. Image courtesy of Ed Moses. Photo by John Waggaman

  • Resin painting by Ed Moses at Billy Al Bengston’s studio

    A resin painting by Ed Moses in an exhibition at Billy Al Bengston’s Artist Studio, 1970. © Ed Moses. Photo by Billy Al Bengston. Image courtesy of and © Billy Al Bengston Art

  • Poster for The Studs group exhibition

    Poster for The Studs group exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, 1964. Image courtesy of Hal Glicksman

  • Ed Moses with his installation at Mizuno Gallery

    Ed Moses with his installation at Mizuno Gallery, 1970. Image courtesy of and © Billy Al Bengston

  • Ed Moses working on a resin painting

    Ed Moses working on a resin painting on the floor of his studio in the early 1970s. Image courtesy of Ed Moses

  • Ed Moses painting on the floor

    Ed Moses painting on the floor of his studio, ca. 1955. Image courtesy of Ed Moses