Current Exhibitions
Paul Gauguin's 'The Swineherd,' 1888, on loan from LACMA

Paul Gauguin’s picturesque painting The Swineherd from 1888 is on long-term loan from LACMA, joining related post-Impressionist works in the Museum’s 19th-century art wing.
LEARN MOREAlternate Realities: Altoon, Diebenkorn, Lobdell, Woelffer

Drawn from the Norton Simon Museum’s expansive holdings of postwar American art, Alternate Realities explores the ways in which artists John Altoon, Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Lobdell and Emerson Woelffer challenged the limitations of pure, gestural abstraction by exploiting the resonance of figural forms.
LEARN MOREModernism in Miniature

This intimate exhibition presents small-scale works of art by some of the most celebrated artists of the mid-20th century.
LEARN MOREFrom top to bottom: John Altoon (American, 1925-1969), Ocean Park Series #8, 1962, oil on canvas, Norton Simon Museum, Anonymous Gift, © 2020 Estate of John Altoon, Braunstein/Quay Gallery