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Founded in 1979, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts has presented major exhibitions of important Modern and Contemporary European and American artists. Since its inaugural exhibition featuring the works of Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt, the gallery has continued to present important exhibitions placing contemporary paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings in historical context. Established at its former La Brea Avenue location in 1981, the gallery has presented a wide range of museum quality exhibitions including major surveys of German Expressionism, California Modern Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Art, as well as numerous group and thematic exhibitions. Solo exhibitions of significant international artists include Alexander Calder, George Condo, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, George Herms, Hundertwasser, Kathe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Max Weber, Georges Rouault, Ed Ruscha, Antoni Tapies, Jordi Alcaraz, and others. Gallery represented artists featured in major exhibitions include Jordi Alcaraz, Hans Burkhardt, Patrick Graham, Reuben Nakian, Ruth Weisberg, Jerome Witkin, and Francisco Zuniga. The gallery is a significant lender to museums and is particularly noteworthy for its emphasis on education through its exhibitions, numerous lectures and panel discussions. Through those endeavors, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts is an important resource for established and beginning collectors, art historians, and museums internationally.

Installed and ready to open! "Jerome Witkin - Epic" will open November 1, 2026 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena wit...
10/14/2026

Installed and ready to open! "Jerome Witkin - Epic" will open November 1, 2026 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena with a reception from 3-6 p.m., but sneak previews are welcome!

09/25/2026

Join us tomorrow, Sept. 26, and raise a glass at the finissage for "Pasadena: L.A.'s Art Legacy," an exhibition described as “a corrective footnote to the received history of postwar American art” before it closes on Wednesday Sept. 30.

The exhibition catalogue “A Hidden Story Revealed — Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy” is now available at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts and Vroman’s, on Amazon, and via our website.

09/06/2026

Revelations abound in the new book, "A Hidden Story Revealed," a catalog of our recent exhibition. Reviewers praise it as “a corrective footnote to the received history of postwar American art," "an important historical source," and "a research tool as much as a keepsake."

An uncovered history that includes the first American exhibitions by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol, and more.

The catalog is now available via Amazon (https://a.co/d/07w9C6bX), Vroman's Bookstore, Skylight Books, Book Alley, and our gallery.

08/06/2026

Los Angeles’s most talked about exhibition of the summer, “Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy,” features nearly 70 works by Old Masters, Modern, and Contemporary icons, revealing a hidden story that prompts a soon to be published book!

The paintings of Mexican Muralists like Diego Rivera, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, and David Alfaro Siqueiros are instantly recognizable, and “Pasadena: LA’s Art Legacy” offers a unusual opportunity to acquire a fresco by Ramos Martínez.

To learn more about this expansive exhibition, visit our Current Exhibition page via the link in our profile!

07/15/2026

With 70 works spanning centuries from Piranesi and Goya, to Man Ray and Ruscha, our unprecedented summer exhibition, "Pasadena: LA's Art Legacy,” reveals unexpected connections across generations of artists through exceptional works by artists including Hans Burkhardt, Arshile Gorky, Mark Tobey, and Patrick Graham.

To learn more about this expansive exhibition, visit our Current Exhibition page via the link in our profile!

07/10/2026

Francisco Goya’s original etching revealed an unexpected surprise, and we are pleased to offer this early impression as part of our unprecedented Summer exhibition, “Pasadena: LA’s Art Legacy” now through August 29.

To learn more about this expansive exhibition, visit our Current Exhibition page via the link in our profile!

07/07/2026

Pioneering Modern artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright’s painting “Departing Spring” is one of 70 works drawn from our inventory, featured in our Summer exhibition. “Pasadena: LA’s Art Legacy” includes works by more than 50 artists who have exhibited in Pasadena art institutions, and is on view now through August 29 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts!

07/02/2026

Culture and Art depends on individuals loving and possessing objects. Museum walls would be bare, were it not for past and present collectors as noted in the closing excerpt from the new video walk-through of “Pasadena: LA’s Art Legacy” highlighting the gallery’s revelatory exhibition about a surprising story.

To view the full video, read recent articles about the show, and more, visit the Current Exhibition page of our website, or follow the link in our profile!

06/30/2026

Gender and women artists’ role in the LA Art scene is one of the revelations on view in the unprecedented art exhibition “Pasadena: LA’s Art Legacy,” now through August 29 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts.

Ruth Weisberg, one the foremost contemporary figurative painters and printmakers in LA, represented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts since the early 1980s, was the first contemporary painter given a solo exhibition at the Huntington and Norton Simon Museums. Yes, a woman artist was the first!

06/27/2026

See Jackson Pollock’s mentors, Hayter and Masson, as part of our exhibition “Pasadena: LA’s Art Legacy,” now through August 29–you can even take one of these modern masters home for far less than $180 million

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