The L.A. art scene takes center stage at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena in an expansive and unique exhibition entitled “Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy.” The exhibition brings into focus Pasadena’s outsized and yet seldom addressed role in L.A.’s recognition as a major international art center.
Despite Pasadena’s large community of artists, art schools, and art museums that rival the finest institutions in America, what the broader Pasadena area has lacked over these many decades was a sustaining “gallery scene” that complimented the art exhibited in those institutions.
“Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy” offers 70 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by 60 artists from the gallery’s holdings–all for sale. Each work in the exhibition is accompanied with a label noting the year that museums including the Pasadena Art Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Huntington presented the artist.
Pasadena’s remarkable artistic legacy is evidenced in this exhibition by the inclusion of works by Old Master, Modern, and Contemporary artists such as Piranesi, Goya, Daumier, Fantin-Latour, Bonnard, Degas, Paul Klee, George Grosz, Louise Nevelson, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Claire Falkenstein, Ruth Weisberg, Ed Ruscha, Llyn Foulkes, George Herms, and many others.
Gallery Hours: Tues. – Fri 10am-6pm; Sat. 10am-5pm
Free Parking Entry on South Lake; Gallery Entrance through Lobby
