Getty Museum Presents Museum Acquisitions 2019: Director’s Choice

Exhibition includes Renaissance masterpiece by Agnolo Bronzino, ancient gems, medieval manuscripts, old master drawings, and photographs by Japanese American artists

Nov 21, 2019

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The Getty Museum announced today Museum Acquisitions 2019: Director’s Choice, the first of a new annual exhibition series that will spotlight some of the most important works of art added to the collection over the course of the year, selected by Getty Museum director Timothy Potts.

The exhibition includes the Museum’s most recently acquired painting, a rare and recently discovered masterpiece by Renaissance master Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist; an important collection of ancient Greek, Roman and Etruscan gems; medieval manuscripts; old master French and Dutch drawings; early 20th-century photographs by Japanese-American artists, as well as other works. All objects were added to the Museum’s collection in 2019.

“The Getty Museum is renowned for its ambitious collecting, and this year was particularly successful for us, with many major acquisitions being made across all of our collecting areas,” says Potts. “This annual display will make it easier for visitors to appreciate both the quality of works that we are able to acquire and the broad range of periods and cultures that we cover, from antiquity to the present day. It also serves to highlight the critical fact that the finest collections are dynamic entities that continue to evolve and expand, allowing ever wider engagement and dialogue with our audiences.”

Museum Acquisitions 2019: Director’s Choice will be on view at the Getty Center Museum from December 10, 2019, through March 1, 2020. It will feature more than 30 objects acquired in 2019 across all of the Museum’s collecting areas.

Also on view in a nearby gallery will be the recently-acquired The Annunciation (about 1333–34), a masterpiece of Late Gothic sculpture by Giovanni di Balduccio (about 1290–1339).

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