Museums

J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum, with locations in Malibu (Getty Villa) and Los Angeles (Getty Center), caters to diverse audiences with a wide range of art exhibitions and programs in visual arts.

The Getty Center features works of art dating from the eighth through the twenty-first century, showcased against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and panoramic views of Los Angeles. The collection includes European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European, Asian, and American photographs.

The Getty Villa in Malibu features Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities presented in a setting modeled after a first-century Roman country house, the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, Italy.

Spanish artists include Alcora Ceramic Factory, Alejandro Massari, Amedor, Anonymous / Unknown, Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Casiano Alguacil, Emilio Beauchy, Eusebio Juliá, Fernando Gallego, Francisco Bayeu y Subias, Francisco de Herrera el Mozo, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Ribalta, Francisco Rizi, J. E. Puig, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, José Camino Vaca, Jusepe de Ribera, Jose Sierra Payba, José Ximénez Donoso, Juan Carreño de Miranda, Juan de Juanes, Juan de Valdés Leal, Luis Leon Masson, Luisa Roldán (La Roldana), Mariano Salvador Maella, Master of the Cypresses, Pedro de Mena, Saint Beatus of Liébana, Vicente Carducho, Vicente López y Portaña and Wills I. Restrepo

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Administered by Florida State University,The Ringling is the State Art Museum of Florida and serves as the legacy of John and Mable Ringling. It features an art museum, historic mansion, circus museum, historic theater, conservation laboratory, arboretum, and research library, situated on 66 acres of bay-front property in Sarasota. The institution offers 21 galleries of European paintings as well as Cypriot antiquities and Asian, American, and contemporary art. The museum’s art collection currently consists of more than 45,000 objects that include paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts from ancient through contemporary periods and from around the world. The most celebrated items are 16th–20th-century European paintings, including a world-renowned collection of Peter Paul Rubens paintings.

Spanish artists include Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Joan Miró, Jusepe de Ribera, Juan Bautista Maíno, Juan de Pareja, Juan Genovés, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

The University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) is the only accredited academic art museum in Oregon by the American Alliance of Museums and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The JSMA aims to enhance the University of Oregon’s academic mission, and its collections galleries present selections from its extensive holdings of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and American art. Special exhibitions galleries display works from the collection and on loan, representing many cultures of the world, past and present. It has a long tradition of bridging international cultures and offers a destination for discovery and education centered on artistic expression that deepens the appreciation and understanding of the human condition.

Spanish artists include Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Joan Miró, Jusepe de Ribera, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí