The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, co-founded by George Lucas and his wife Melody Hobson and opening in Los Angeles on September 22nd, has announced its first exhibition.
In total, more than 1,200 exhibits will be on display, spread across more than 30 galleries, and the installation will occupy approximately 100,000 square feet of the museum, which aims to “honor the universal tradition of storytelling through images.”
Doug Chiang, Podrace Crush, Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace production art, 1995-99. Digital print.
Lucas Museum of Nararat Art
Drawn from the museum’s founding collection, the exhibits aim to trace the evolution of human culture through storytelling, from ancient sculptures of gods and goddesses to Renaissance paintings, photographs, comics, and contemporary films, including props and costumes from the Lucas Archive.
Many themed exhibits focus on themes such as love, family, community, and adventures that connect generations. Other exhibits focus on individual artists of the 20th century and are filled with familiar, recognizable everyday objects.
See the complete list of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art exhibitions below.
Architecture: Innovative design inspired the museum’s architectural vision
Benton: Selected Works of American Life by Thomas Hart Benton
Children’s Stories: Illustrations of children’s literature by Beatrix Potter, Leo Politi, E.H. Shepard, Jacob Lawrence, and others.
Film: A selection of production designs, props, and costumes from the Lucas Archives.
Everyday Life: A series of galleries dedicated to visual stories about childhood, community, family, love, motherhood, play, school, sports, and work.
Civic life: depictions of courthouses, polling stations, political headquarters, etc.
Comics • Graphic Stories: American and European comics including works by Moebius, Marie Severin, Jack Kirby, Alison Bechdel, Jim Lee, Frank Miller, and Rafael Navarro.
Manga/Anime: Works that influenced Japanese illustration and animation
Frazetta: Illustrations and book covers by Frank Frazetta
History: Paintings, prints, and illustrations of major historical events
Jesse Wilcox Smith: Illustrator’s fairy tales and childhood scenes
Murals: Large-scale public works of narrative art by Judith F. Baca, Diego Rivera, and J.R.
Narrative Form: Narrative art spanning the genres of adventure, fantasy, romance, and science fiction by artists Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo, Ken Kelly, Georges Méliès, John C. Berkey, and Jeffrey Katherine Jones.
Parrish: Works by illustrator Maxfield Parrish
Photos: Documentary images by Robert Capa, Gordon Parks, Alfred Eisenstedt, Dorothea Lange and others
Rockwell: The works of Norman Rockwell
Wyeth: Book illustrations from the 1910s to the 1940s by NC Wyeth.
Western Stories: Myths of the American West (including wagon trains, gunfights, frontier towns, etc.)
