Getty Museum Reunites ‘School of London’ for Exhibit

From July 26 to November 13, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles is set to put on a masterclass of 20th-century contemporary art, featuring the leaders of the so-called “School of London” movement. Named by expat American painter R.B. Kitaj, the movement—centering on “figurative art,” or that which has strong reference points to human figures or real-life landscapes—had its beginnings in 1976 at the Hayward Gallery in London. Artists lumped into the “school” include Kitaj, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, and Leon Kossoff. Preview some of the masterworks from the “London Calling” exhibit below. For more information on it, click here.

Lucian Freud, ‘Boy Smoking,’ 1950-51 (© Lucian Freud Archive/Bridgeman Copyright Service/© Tate, London 2016)

Leon Kossoff, ‘Two Seated Figures No. 2, 1980’ (© Leon Kossoff/© Tate, London 2016)

Kossoff, Leon

Francis Bacon, ‘Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne,’ 1966 (© The Estate of Francis Bacon/All rights reserved/ DACS, London/ARS, NY 2016/© Tate, London 2016)

Frank Auerbach, ‘Self-Portrait,’ 1958 (© Frank Auerbach, Courtesy Marlborough Fine Art)

R.B. Kitaj, ‘Cecil Court, London W.C.2. [The Refugees],’ 1983-84 (© R.B. Kitaj Estate, Courtesy Marlborough Fine Art/© Tate, London 2016)

Kitaj, R.B.

Michael Andrews, ‘Melanie and Me Swimming,’ 1978-79 (© the Estate of Michael Andrews, Courtesy James Hyman Gallery, London/© Tate, London 2016)

Andrews, Michael