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.

Jerry McMillan Studio

Artist and photographer Jerry McMillan has lived in Pasadena since the 1960s. He is a childhood friend of Joe Goode and Ed Ruscha; like them, he moved from Oklahoma to Los Angeles in the late 1950s and attended Chouinard Art Institute.

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