Participant Info
- First Name
- Gloria
- Last Name
- Williams Sander
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA
- glowilsand@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Norton Simon Museum
- Website URL
- www.nortonsimon.org
- Keywords
- European Painting and Works on Paper, 1600-1800; History of Frames; Photography, 1960s -1980s
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- MA
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Gloria Williams Sander is a curator at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. She oversees the collection of European Paintings before 1800, works on paper, photography and the Galka Scheyer-Blue Four Archives. The museum’s print collections, ranging from Rembrandt etchings to editions produced at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, have inspired many of the exhibits she organized. Recent exhibitions, including I Saw It: Francisco de Goya, Printmaker (2024), presented the opportunity for visitors and print specialists alike to experience all four of the Spanish artist’s etched series, along with special impressions and bound volumes of prints. For Unseen Picasso (2021) she selected etchings, lithographs and linocuts whose singular characteristics, specific to the exhibited impressions, defined them as rare or unique and therefore infrequently seen in exhibition or publication. For The Collectible Moment: Photography in the Norton Simon Collection (2006) she traced the significant history of the Los Angeles photography community in the 1960s – 1970s.
- Recent Publications
“Every Picture Tells a Story: Mike Mandel’s Photographer Baseball Trading Cards and Photography at the Norton Simon Museum,” Fiftieth Anniversary Publication, Forthcoming, August, 2025.
“ ‘The Ideal ‘Go-Between’ for the Artist and His Public’: Galka Scheyer in California,” in Galka Scheyer Und Die Blaue Vier: Lyonel Feininger, Alexej von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee; Exh. Cat. Städtisches Museum Braunschweig. Munich: Hirmer, 2024.
Contributor, Italian Paintings 17th – 18th Centuries in the Norton Simon Museum, Yale University Press, 2023.
“A Force of Nature: Galka Scheyer and First Impressions,” in Galka Scheyer: A Jewish Woman in International Art Business; Schriften Der Bet Tfila–Forschungsstelle Für Jüdische Architektur in Europa; Bd. 13, Petersberg, Michael Imhof Verlag, 2021.
“The Archaeology of a Photograph: Unearthing Judy Dater” in Only Human. Judy Dater 1964-2016, Portraits and Nudes, Marymount Institute Press, 2018.
“Thoughts on the Critical Fortune of ‘Photography into Sculpture’,” Exposure: the Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, Fall 2015 (48:2).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Museums
