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Film event in Pasadena, CA by Norton Simon Museum on Friday, January 11 2019
Seniors (ages 62 and above) $15.00. Children (ages 18 and under) Free. Students with valid I.D. Free. Museum Members. Free. Admission is free for all visitors the first Friday of every month from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Unless otherwise stated, events are free with admission and no reservations are required.
Barbara Hepworth. Self: Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism. Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, UK. She is known for Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism (1978), Sister Wendy at the Norton Simon Museum (2002) and Viewpoint (1959). She was married to Ben Nicholson and John Skeaping.
Norton Simon acquired his first works by the artist, a suite of color lithographs, in 1964 and continuing to buy pictures and prints by Vuillard for the next twenty years. Today the Museum is home to four paintings and thirteen lithographs by the artist, all dated to the crucial decades between 1890 and 1910 when his work was at its boldest.
The Thinker. Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917) The image of The Thinker is not that of a passive dreamer, but of a man actively engaged in creative thought. Thinking has been expressed not only through the meditative attitude of the body, but through the effort of every muscle. As Rodin said, "What makes my Thinker think is that he thinks not ...
Museum History. The history of the Norton Simon Museum begins with the Pasadena Art Institute. The Institute was founded in 1922 and incorporated two years later on August 14, 1924 as a privately endowed, nonprofit institution. Originally comprised of local citizens, the primary goals of the Institution were to establish and maintain a museum ...
The collection of South Indian bronzes at the Norton Simon Museum includes four Nataraja figures, two of which date to the eleventh century, the height of Chola imperial expansion. ... It is this evident mastery over the medium that made Chola bronzes so appealing to Norton Simon, who compared them favorably to work by European artists such as ...
