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Grand Gestures: The Gordon F. Hampton Collection
June 28 – August 12, 2007The Gordon F. Hampton Collection is comprised of eighty-five works of art, with great strength in the area of second-generation Abstract Expressionist painting including artists Adolph Gottlieb, Al Held, Lee Krasner, Michael Goldberg and others. Curated by Dr. Laurie Monahan, from UC Santa Barbara, the exhibition highlights 35 works from the collection and is accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Monahan, Director Christopher Scoates and Anna-Marie Sanchez, Registrar and Curator of the Permanent Collection. This collection came to the museum through the remarkable generosity of the Gordon F. Hampton Foundation and Mr. Hampton’s children: Wesley G. Hampton, Roger K. Hampton, and Katharine Hampton Shenk. Gordon Hampton was a renowned Los Angeles attorney, art patron, philanthropist and a “pioneering name partner in the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton,” one of California’s largest firms. This exhibition was made possible by the generosity of Wesley and Mary Hampton.
Artists included in the exhibition:
Gillian Ayeres, William Brice, Stuart Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Chris Syson, Ole (Jurgen) Fischer, Sam Francis, Michael Goldberg, Adolph Gottlieb, Nancy Graves, Al Held, Roger Herman, David Hockney, Sara Holt, Ellsworth Kelly, Lee Krasner, William Mahan, Robert Rauschenberg, Milton Resnick, Jean Tinguely, Robert Walker, Andy Warhol, and Emerson Woelffer.With a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Laurie Monahan is currently an asociate professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. Monahan specializes in early 20th century European painting and visual culture, with an emphasis on Surrealism and related movements from the 1920s and 1930s. Her research interests extend into the post-WWII period, with a focus on cultural relations between Europe and the U.S., and in the 1960s in particular. She is currently finishing a book entitled A Knife into Dreams: Andre Masson, Massacres, Surrealism of the 1930s. Committed to extending the parameters of scholarly research beyond the boundaries of the University, Monahan has participated as a presenter and respondent in the ‘Works in Progress” series at the Getty Research Center.
Image credit: Michael Goldberg, Untitled, 1951-52, oil on canvas, 57 x 50.25", courtesy of the artist.
