Entertainment & Arts
April 19, 2017
Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger and Alexei Jawlensky were struggling avant-garde European artists in 1924 when they were christened “The Blue Four” by arts agent Emmy (Galka) Scheyer, who hoped to sell their works in the United States.
June 23, 1991
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena is focusing on liquid pleasure in two summer exhibitions.
July 23, 1993
Andreas Feininger; Photographer for Life Magazine Andreas Feininger, 92, an innovative photographer known for his richly detailed images of New York City featured in Life magazine in the 1940s.
Feb. 23, 1999
An exhibition of works by painters Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexei Jawlensky and Lyonel Feininger, who were known as the Blue Four, opens today at the Long Beach Museum of Art and runs through May 19.
April 14, 1985
The Norton Simon Museum is preparing to celebrate a proud but rather obscure chapter of Southern California’s art- collecting history.
Nov. 13, 1994
Liechtenstein lawyer Herbert Batliner and his wife, Rita, have donated their collection of 500 artworks, including 40 Picassos and works by Monet, Modigliani and Francis Bacon, to Vienna’s Albertina art museum.
May 26, 2007
Galka Scheyer championed artists known as the Blue Four and carved a unique niche in the process.
Dec. 8, 2002
Recent speculation about the destiny of Norton Simon’s art collection has obscured at least one important fact: The show goes on at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.
March 21, 1989
California
Dec. 19, 2014