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Themes

Women Faculty, Craft, and the Postwar Divide

At the moment of UCLA’s founding in 1919, its art faculty—teaching a craft-based curriculum—was made up almost entirely of women. It was only in the 1950s, when the applied arts were supplanted by the “fine arts,” that the majority of faculty appointments became men.
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Louise Guthrie, Soft Feet Pattering, 1925

Louise Guthrie, Soft Feet Pattering, 1925

Dorothy Woodhead Brown, Stone Egg with Navel Cord, 1967

Dorothy Woodhead Brown, Stone Egg with Navel Cord, 1967

Laura Andreson, Vase, ca. 1970

Laura Andreson, Vase, ca. 1970

Printmakers at Midcentury

Selection of artworks from the Hammer Museum's collections highlighting the rise of printmaking at UCLA in the 1950s and 1960s
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John Paul Jones, Landscape No. 2, 1950

John Paul Jones, Landscape No. 2, 1950

Richard Diebenkorn, Woman Leaning Back in Chair, 1963-1964

Richard Diebenkorn, Woman Leaning Back in Chair, 1963-1964

Stanton Macdonald-Wright, In the hand the fire fly makes a cold brilliance, 1966-1967

Stanton Macdonald-Wright, In the hand the fire fly makes a cold brilliance, 1966-1967

Photography, 1960s to Today

Selection of artworks from the Hammer Museum's collections highlighting the rise of photography at UCLA from the 1960s to the present
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Garry Winogrand, Untitled, 1964

Garry Winogrand, Untitled, 1964

Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Man in Tie, 1977 (printed in 2014)

Jo Ann Callis, Man in Tie, 1977 (printed in 2014)

Robert Heinecken, 1984, A Case Study in Finding an Appropriate TV Newswoman (A CBS Docudrama in Words and Pictures), 1984

Robert Heinecken, 1984, A Case Study in Finding an Appropriate TV Newswoman (A CBS Docudrama in Words and Pictures), 1984

Building a Contemporary Collection

Selection of artworks from the Hammer Contemporary Collection highlighting the contribution of artists who taught or studied at UCLA
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Amy Adler, The Problem Child, 1995

Amy Adler, The Problem Child, 1995

Nathan Mabry, In Your Face (Numbers 4), 2006

Nathan Mabry, In Your Face (Numbers 4), 2006

Katie Grinnan, Mirage, 2011

Katie Grinnan, Mirage, 2011