Rarely seen outside Los Angeles, 46 paintings and works on paper from the renowned collection of UCLA’s Hammer Museum will be presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in collaboration with the Hammer Museum and Manifesto Expo. Major works of art spanning four centuries will be presented in an exhibition that reflects the interests of the Los Angeles museum’s founder, collector Armand Hammer, through outstanding examples of European art dating from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century, alongside important works by American artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

“Armand Hammer had a fascinating career as a businessman and art collector that spanned most of the twentieth century,” commented Gary Tinterow, Director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. “The museum he founded in Los Angeles boasts some of the most important European and American paintings among all the museums in the country. We are pleased to present to our audiences the highlights of that collection, shown together outside Los Angeles for the very first time in this century.”

The collection assembled by Armand Hammer (1898-1990) offers a remarkable insight into European and American art, including Titian’s Portrait of a Man in Armor (c. 1530) and Rembrandt’s Juno (ca. 1662-65); works by the greats of nineteenth-century French painting, including Jean Millet, Camille Corot, Gustave Moreau, and Honoré Daumier; Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Vincent van Gogh; and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American paintings by Gilbert Stuart and Thomas Eakins.

Manifesto Expo is co-organizing this major exhibition, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Hammer Museum.