Scott Allan

Bio

Scott Allan is curator in the Department of Paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Paintings, J. Paul Getty Museum Curator

    Stories

    1. The Real Woman Behind the Manet Painting

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      A colorful painting of a woman with a parasol and beautiful dress, next to a black and white portrait of a woman in a beautiful dress and ornate hat

      Curators delve into the identity of the model who posed for Spring

      Apr 10, 2024

    2. How Millet’s Man with a Hoe Survived the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

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      Man in white shirt and jeans leans against a hoe in a field

      Why the fate of this painting gripped the nation

      May 19, 2020

    3. Exhibition Manet and Modern Beauty Explores the Artist’s Last Years

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      A young woman wearing a floral dress and holding a a beige parasol stands in profile against a background full of greenery.

      Dismissed as frivolous and superficial, the late work of Édouard Manet reflects his evolving ambitions as a “painter of modern life”

      May 26, 2019

    4. Edouard Manet’s Spring Joins the Getty Museum Galleries

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      A young woman wearing a floral dress and holding a a beige parasol stands in profile against a background full of greenery.

      This portrait of Parisian actress Jeanne Demarsy injects a note of fashionable femininity into the Getty’s Impressionist galleries

      Nov 25, 2014