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Getty Center
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Getty Center, art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif. operated by the J. Paul Getty Getty, Jean Paul, 1892–1976, American business executive, one of the richest men in the world during his life, b. Minneapolis, Minn. He inherited his father's oil business, George F. Getty, Inc., becoming its president and general manager in 1930.
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 Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory overlooking Los Angeles. Designed by architect Richard Meier Meier, Richard , 1934–, American architect, b. Newark, N.J., educated at Cornell Univ. During the 1960s, he was a member of the New York "Five" or "white" architects, a group that emulated the early International style.
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, the center opened in 1997. The museum houses the Getty collections of European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, and decorative arts as well as European and American and European photographs. The complex also includes a research library and archives, which includes performance and lecture facilities; conservation and art historical institutes; and educational and computer centers. The first Getty Museum was located at J. Paul Getty's home in Malibu, the second was a Roman-style villa in Malibu that opened in 1974 and is scheduled to reopen in 2001 to exhibit the Getty's outstanding collection of classical antiquities and serve as a center for comparative archaeology and cultures.


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The North-East peer has been waiting for the go-ahead to sell the masterpiece to the John Paul Getty Museum, in New York, after it offered the huge sum following almost a year of quiet negotiations.
The John Paul Getty Museum in Malibu bought the 15th century work, ``The Holy Family with the Infant St.
Some of the world's leading museums and private collections now house Carlton Hobbs' pieces including, amongst others: The Musee du Louvre The John Paul Getty Museum The Rijksmuseum The National Gallery of Australia The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Boston Museum of Fine Arts The Musee des Beaux Arts, Dijon The Bowes Museum Paxton House The National Gallery of Greece Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.
 
 
 
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