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Posted in: Comics<\/a> | Tagged: alison bechdel<\/a>, frank frazetta<\/a>, jack kirby<\/a>, los angeles<\/a>, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art<\/a>, posy simmonds<\/a>, robert crumb<\/a><\/p>\n

Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Posy Simmonds, Robert Crumb and Alison Bechdel’s work to be displayed in the Lucas Museum Of Narrative Art<\/p>\n

Article Summary
\nLucas Museum of Narrative Art opens in Los Angeles in September 2026 with 35 galleries and 100,000 sq ft.
\nExhibitions will feature works by Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Alison Bechdel, Frida Kahlo, and more.
\nCollection includes comic art, classic illustration, photography, props, models, and Lucas Archives items.
\nFounded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, with a board including Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro. <\/p>\n

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park, has set its opening date for September 2026, including work by Jack Kirby, Posy Simmonds, Frank Frazetta, N. C. Wyeth, Beatrix Potter, Norman Rockwell, Kadir Nelson, Jessie Willcox Smith, Judy Baca, Frida Kahlo, Maxfield Parrish, Winsor McCay, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, Robert Crumb, Ernie Barnes, Osamu Tezuka, Miguel Covarrubias, George Herriman, Ralph McQuarrie, Doug Chian, Kadir Nelson, Gordon Parks, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Judith F. Baca, JR, Diego Rivera, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Robert Colescott\u00a0and Dorothea Lang, founded by George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson. And it is set to be the largest comic book gallery in the world, featuring 35 galleries and occupying 100,000 square feet, with a permanent collection of over 40,000 works. This collection includes the Lucas Archives, which showcases models, props, concept art, and costumes from George Lucas’ own work. Pieces to be included are Frank Frazetta’s cover for A Princess of Mars, Norman Rockwell’s cover for The Saturday Evening Post, Age of Romance, an unpublished Beatrix Potter drawing Mouse with a spinning wheel, The Duel on the Beach, an NC Wyeth illustration for Ladies’ Home Journal, Ernie Barnes’ The Critics Corner, Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy, Doug Chian’s Attack Of The Clones production art, Ralph McQuarrie’s Star Wars production art, Miguel Covarrubias’ Hollywood’s Malibu Beach, Kadir Nelson’s Art Connoisseurs cover for The New Yorker, Frida Kahlo’s Autorretrato dedicado al Dr Eloesser.<\/p>\n

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The building is designed by architect Ma Yansong of MAD with assistance from the US-based architecture firm, Stantec. It is situated in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park on an 11-acre campus with green spaces designed by Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA. The 300,000-square-foot structure will feature galleries, two theatres, a retail store, a library, a caf\u00e9, a restaurant, and event spaces.<\/p>\n

The museum states, “Narrative art is created to represent stories through images. Much of the world’s artistic expression has been motivated by storytelling, transmitting narratives rooted in religion, myth, history, literature, or events. Narrative art appears in many forms, from cave drawings and hieroglyphics to paintings, murals, illustration, comics, and sculpture. Narrative art has proliferated in photography, magazine and book illustration, film, and digital media, addressing wide audiences and reminding them of the myths and stories that influence everyday life. The Lucas Museum shows how narrative art influences societies\u2014shaping beliefs, communicating values, inspiring imagination, and creating communities. We empower people to engage with artworks through the compelling stories they tell.” The board of directors are:<\/p>\n

George Lucas, Founder, Lucasfilm
\nMellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments
\nHenry Bienen, Interim President, Northwestern University
\nCesar Conde, Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group
\nGuillermo del Toro, Filmmaker
\nArne Duncan, Former U.S. Secretary of Education
\nJim Gianopulos, CEO, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
\nMichael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
\nJohn McCarter, Jr., President Emeritus, The Field Museum of Natural History
\nSteven Spielberg, Filmmaker
\nAndrea Wishom, President, Skywalker Holdings, LLC
\nMatthew Yale, Founder and CEO, Grove Partners<\/p>\n

The curating staff are as follows:<\/p>\n

Pilar Tompkins Rivas
Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Curatorial and Collections
Pilar Tompkins Rivas joined the Lucas Museum as Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial and
Collections in 2020. Previously, she served as Director and as Chief Curator of the Vincent Price Art
Museum (VPAM) at East Los Angeles College. At VPAM, Tompkins Rivas spearheaded partnerships
between the museum and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(LACMA); and the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. She also launched diversity
pipeline programs, including a museumstudies certificate program. Prior to her tenure at VPAM, she
served as Coordinator of Curatorial Initiatives at LACMA, co-directing the institution’s UCLA-LACMA Art
History Practicum Initiative and the Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program, in
addition to co-curating exhibitions in partnership with the Getty Trust’s scholarly initiative Pacific Standard
Time: Art in L.A., 1945\u20131980 (2011\u201312). Tompkins Rivas has also served as Curator and Director of
artist-in-residence programs at the nonprofit 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California, Arts
Project Coordinator at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, and Curator at the Claremont
Museum of Art. She is completing a PhD in Cultural Studies and holds an MA in Cultural Studies from
Claremont Graduate University, in addition to holding a BA in Latin American Studies and a BFA in Studio
Art from the University of Texas at Austin.
\nDr. Ryan Linkof
Senior Curator
Dr. Ryan Linkof has been a curator at the Lucas Museum since 2018. Previously, he served as Associate
Curator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and Assistant Curator in the Photography
Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). At LACMA, he organized numerous
exhibition projects, including Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium (2016, with the Getty Center)
and Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa \u2013 Art and Film (2013\u201314). He serves on the board and as
part of the curatorial advisory committee of the nonprofit collective Dirty Looks, dedicated to queer
filmmaking. He is the author of Public Images (Bloomsbury, 2018), and his research has appeared in
multiple exhibition catalogues, edited volumes, and scholarly journals, including Media History,
Photography and Culture, and \u00c9tudes photographiques. His writing has also appeared in several online
and print journals, including the New York Times, East of Borneo, This Recording, and Document
Journal. He holds a PhD from the University of Southern California, where he has also served as a
visiting professor, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
\nLaela French
Curator & Head of Lucas Archives
Laela French is Curator & Head of Lucas Archives at the Lucas Museum and has overseen the Lucas
Archives since May 2001. Over the past two decades, she has worked closely with Lucasfilm Ltd.
production teams to collect and preserve the costumes, props, models, and artworks used in the making
of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films. She has also curated, produced, and managed over 20 Star
Wars touring exhibitions that have been shown at over 100 museum venues worldwide and visited by
more than 14 million exhibition-goers. Previously, French was Collections Manager for Loans and
Exhibitions at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles and Chief Registrar for the Long
Beach Museum of Art in Long Beach, California, after several years of working as a regional archivist in
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