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Angeles' LA County Museum of Art is world-ranked with over 100,000 works
from around the globe. It is the city's most popular museum and houses
one of the largest collections of art in the U.S.
Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" is here and
there is a specially designed pavilion for Japanese art, as well as
galleries for South Asian and Himalayan art (noted below). There are
treasures upon treasures inside this premier and "visitor-friendly" art
museum.
South
Asian Sculpture Galleries
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collection of South Asian
sculpture is one of the most encyclopedic outside of South Asia. The
earliest material on exhibit is from the Harappan civilization of the
Indus River Valley, which flourished approximately five thousand years
ago. The display of Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain sculptures in a variety of
media documents the entire spectrum of the stylistic and iconographic
development of the art of these religions throughout South Asia.
Southeast
Asian Art Gallery
This gallery displays art from Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. Bronze and Iron Age objects from the
Dongson culture of Indonesia and Vietnam and the Ban Chiang culture of
Thailand are on view along with Buddhist and Hindu sculpture from all
periods and regions. The collection of Sri Lankan art is one of the
largest and most comprehensive outside Asia.
Himalayan
Art Gallery
This gallery is devoted to the art of the Himalayan countries of Nepal,
Tibet, and Bhutan. The collection includes many illustrated manuscript
pages and sculptures in various media ranging in time from the eleventh
through the twentieth century. The collection is especially notable for
its early Tibetan and Nepalese thanka paintings.
South
Asian Painting and Decorative Art Gallery
This gallery displays a diverse range of South Asian painting on a
rotating basis, including eleventh-century Pala dynasty manuscripts,
sixteenth–nineteenth-century Mughal dynasty paintings, and modern South
Asian graphic arts. The decorative art collection includes early writing
cabinets, Christian ivory carvings from Goa, fine metalware, jewelry and
enamel work, and many important Mughal jades and glassware. Two
outstanding works are an exquisite Mughal brass ewer and the personal
dagger of the seventeenth-century Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
 
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