Past Exhibitions – 2001 

The Rowan Collection
Robert A. Rowan (1910-1995) was an active patron of the Pasadena Art Museum for over twenty years, and a founding trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. This exhibition of forty paintings spans four decades of his collecting activity, both local and international.



September 7 - October 21, 2001

True Grit: Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism
Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Jay DeFeo, Claire Falkenstein, Nancy Grossman, Louise Nevelson, Nancy Spero
All of the artists in this exhibition began making art before the word "feminism" entered the cultural mainstream and their work shares a strong angst-filled sensibility that is undeniably shaped by the experience of being a woman artist in a time of siege and rebellion.