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Cat's outta the bag! The votes are in! Last month we asked for name suggestions for a new face in Getty's galleries, and boy did you deliver. Welcome to the galleries, Purrquoise! (Everybody say *meow!*) 🐾 This porcelain cat was made in the 1700s in China for export to Europe (where it received its glowing eyes and gilded stool), and was once owned by Madame de Pompadour—the official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751.

Swipe to make this good boy do a trick! 📷 1. Small white dog on ornate chair, about 1865, O. Lawson. Getty Museum 2. Small white dog on hind legs in plain chair, about 1865, O. Lawson. Getty Museum #Dogs #Doggo #DogTricks #Dogstagram #Photography

Take a look at these details—would you ever guess this artwork was painted by two artists? I Was Thinking of You was a collaboration between Marguerite Gérard and her brother-in-law, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. But, how do Getty scholars know that? Visit the link in our bio to learn more. 🖼️ I Was Thinking of You, about 1785-1787, Marguerite Gérard and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Getty Museum

Archives hold untold stories of Black art and artists, and Getty is working to make them more accessible. Today Getty awarded $1.8M to institutional archives across the US through its Black Visual Arts Archives initiative. These grants aim to increase access to archival collections at institutions with important historical records connected to Black artists. By organizing and digitizing these photographs, exhibition materials, recordings, and other archival documents, the stories of Black art and artists can be surfaced for all. This year's grantees: Afro Charities, Inc.; Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History; Morgan State University’s Beulah M. Davis Special Collections Department; South Side Community Art Center; South Side Home Movie Project at the University of Chicago and the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland. Read more about the eight projects that received funding at the link in our bio. Images: 1: Lois Mailou Jones in her studio. Photo: Marc Vaux Studio. Courtesy of the AFRO American Newspapers Archives/Afro Charities 2: A yet unidentified woman inspects film in Ramon Williams’ studio: the very same reels we are preserving today, c. 1946. Found in South Side Home Movie Project’s Ramon Williams Collection. The Ramon Williams Collection, South Side Home Movie Project. SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00186 3: Margaret Taylor Burroughs (1915 - 2010), “Mother and Child,” 1987. Image from South Side Community Art Center Collection 4: Neighborhood Arts Center Staff Gathered on Steps at 252 Georgia Avenue (Photograph by Jim Alexander), 1977 (Neighborhood Arts Center Records) 5: VHS tapes of lectures and quiltmaker interviews, 1988–2007, Eli Leon Papers. Bequest of the Eli Leon Living Trust, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Bequest of the Eli Leon Living Trust, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

People of all racial and ethnic backgrounds fought on both sides of the American Civil War. The photographs of Bruce Yonemoto (@bruceyonemoto ), a Los Angeles-based artist and educator, prompt reflections on the ways racial identities are recorded and regularly excluded from history. For the series “North South East West”, Yonemoto reinterprets Western visual tropes associated with 19th-century studio portrait photographs, especially as exemplified by carte-de-visite portraits of soldiers from the American Civil War. Few images of Asian soldiers who served during that time exist; the artist became interested in how such an imbalance of representation came to shape our current perception of this period in US history. The Civil War-era regalia worn by those pictured were sourced from Western Costume Company (@westerncostumecompany ) in North Hollywood, the same costume house that provided props and costumes for D.W. Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. Photos: 1. Untitled, 2007, Bruce Yonemoto. Getty Museum, 2024.1.7. © Bruce Yonemoto 2. Untitled, 2007, Bruce Yonemoto. Getty Museum, 2024.1.4. © Bruce Yonemoto 3. Untitled, 2007, Bruce Yonemoto. Getty Museum, 2024.1.3. © Bruce Yonemoto 4. Untitled, 2007, Bruce Yonemoto. Getty Museum, 2024.1.1. © Bruce Yonemoto

Happy #MosaicMonday! Can you tell what the four people in the corners of this mosaic panel represent? 🧐 Hint: Frankie Valli would be a huge fan. Answer ⬇️ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The four seasons! 🍃🍂 ℹ️ Mosaic Floor with Orpheus and the Animals, with Four Seasons in the Corners, A.D. 150-200, Gallo Roman.

Is motherhood a creative act? Get to know this work by artist Annie Hsiao-Ching Wang. In a photo series that has lasted over 20 years, artist Annie Wang (@artanniewang ) explores what it means to be a woman, an artist, and a mother through an autobiographical lens. Tell us how this work makes you feel in the comments. Happy Mother's Day!

Inspired by his grandmother’s photo albums and accompanying stories about the Mississippi community where he was raised, Earlie Hudnall has been making portraits in Houston’s historically Black neighborhoods for over 40 years. Like other artists featured in the exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, Hudnall uses photography to highlight moments of connection. Whether a family in their Sunday best or siblings at play, Earlie Hudnall has a knack for conveying the many dimensions of human relationships in one single image. Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, organized by the @ngadc , is on view at the Getty Center through June 14, 2026. 📷 Mother with Sons, Third Ward, Houston Texas (detail), 1973; printed 1990, Earlie Hudnall, Jr. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2022.134.1

A quiet moment, made monumental. Alexandre Charpentier’s Young Mother Breastfeeding Her Child celebrates the beauty and dignity of simple, everyday acts of tenderness. At the link in our bio, Senior Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts Anne-Lise Desmas reflects on why this rare work, newly acquired by Getty, continues to move viewers more than a century after its creation. ℹ️ Young Mother Breastfeeding Her Child, stoneware about 1895, Alexandre Charpentier. Getty Museum

We toadally knew you'd find these frogs ribbiting. Hop over to our #linkinbio to see more in our online collection.