Norton Simon (1907-1993) was a hard-nosed industrialist ... ultimately successful takeover of the financially faltering Pasadena Art Museum in 1974, his collection numbered some 12,000 works.

“Mariana: Velázquez’s Portrait of a Queen from the Museo Nacional del Prado” will be on view at the Norton Simon Museum, 411 W. Colorado Blvd. at Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena ...

The Norton Museum of Art has acquired its first painting by ... at the time of her marriage to Capt. Frederick Edward Guest, an English aristocrat. It was given to the Norton by Phipps Guest ...