LOS ANGELES, CA.- Recent Acquisitions 2021: Collecting for the Museum, an exhibition on view at the Getty Center, spotlights 20 works from the hundreds of acquisitions the Getty Museum has made over the past 18 months.

The works enrich the six collecting areas of the Museum: antiquities, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, sculpture & decorative arts, and photographs.

Highlights of the exhibition include a recently rediscovered painting of Lucretia (about 1627) by Artemisia Gentileschi; Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children (1783), an unconventional pastel representing a woman nursing her child by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard; a bifolium (double-page) from a 13th-century luxury copy of the Qur’an (known as the Pink Qur’an after the hue of the paper); and a dreamlike self-portrait photograph called Summer Azure (2020) by activist, filmmaker, and writer Tourmaline.

Timothy Potts, Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Robert Tuttle Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, explains: “The exhibition—an annual event since 2019—this year reflects several recent collection-building initiatives of the Getty Museum, including exploring the wider connections of the classical world with other cultures, seeking to represent women artists in all media, telling a more inclusive history of European art, and bringing greater diversity to our holdings of modern and contemporary photographs. Our collection is young and still growing, but with each new purchase we consider the many ways the Museum can expand the reach and impact of art we hold in public trust.”

Recent Acquisitions 2021: Collecting for the Museum is on view December 14, 2021–February 27, 2022. It was curated by Timothy Potts, the Museum’s director, and Richard Rand, associate director of collections.