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Stella!!!

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on April 25, 2013

Step into Gallery 14 at the de Young and you will immediately encounter the riot of geometric color that is Frank Stella’s impressive 12-foot-square painting, Lettre sur les aveugles II (1974). This vibrant new acquisition represents the first of Stella’s paintings to enter the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Frank Stella's Lettre sur les aveugles II, 1974

Frank Stella (American, b. 1936). Lettre sur les aveugles II, 1974. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Museum Purchase, Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions. 2013.1

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Dutch Clouds, Past and Present

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on March 15, 2013

Conversation 6, a special exhibition on view at the San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery in the Civic Center through April 27, pairs Jason Hanasik, a local multimedia artist, with Berndnaut Smilde, an internationally recognized installation artist from Amsterdam. Today’s guest blogger Meg Shiffler is the director of the SFAC Galleries, and in this entry focuses on the work of Smilde and its relationship to paintings featured in the special exhibition Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis.

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Berndnaut Smilde, Nimbus Munnekeholm, 2012

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A Feast for the Eyes

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on March 5, 2013

Foodies and art aficionados alike can feast their eyes on delectable still lifes in the special exhibition Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis on view at the de Young through June 2. With the abundance of delicious artwork on view, it is only fitting that the de Young Café provides equally delicious food to satiate cravings experienced while inside the exhibition.

Beyeren

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The Power of Painting and Printmaking at the de Young Summer Art Camp

Posted by Eileen Lew Morris on August 10, 2012

Guest blogger Kelsey Linton takes us inside the de Young Summer Art Camp where we catch up with the Apprentices, Artisans, and Muses and Masters as they learn about this week’s theme, "The Power of Painting and Printmaking."

In gallery

The Apprentices kicked off the week by examining the color wheel and discussing different types of colors, color mixing, and tinting. Using this newfound knowledge, each apprentice then made his or her own wheel.

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The Power of Painting at the de Young Summer Art Camp

Posted by Eileen Lew Morris on July 18, 2012

Week four of the de Young Summer Art Camp featured the theme The Power of Painting. Guest blogger Alida Jekabson visited the studios in the tower to report on the young artists’ emerging talents.

Splatter painting

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FRAME|WORK: Mrs. Robert S. Cassatt, the Artist's Mother by Mary Cassatt

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on May 23, 2012

In celebration of Mary Cassatt’s birthday yesterday, this week’s FRAME|WORK—a weekly blog series highlighting an artwork in the Museums’ permanent collection—features the artist’s penetrating portrait of her mother, Mrs. Robert S. Cassatt, the Artist’s Mother (ca. 1889). This painting is currently on view in Gallery 28 at the de Young.

Mrs. Robert S. Cassatt

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926). Mrs. Robert S. Cassatt, the Artist's Mother, ca. 1889. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase, William H. Noble Bequest Fund. 1979.35

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FRAME|WORK: Untitled XX by Willem de Kooning

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on April 25, 2012

Yesterday was the birthday of renowned Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. Today’s FRAME|WORK—a weekly blog series highlighting an artwork in the permanent collection—features de Kooning’s 1977 painting, Untitled XX, which is currently on view in Gallery 15 at the de Young Museum.

Untitled XX

Willem de Kooning (American, 1904–1997). Untitled XX, 1977. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase, gift of Nan Tucker McEvoy. 2002.1

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Love and the Maiden: A Harmony of Hues

Posted by Melissa Buron on April 19, 2012

In this installment of our continuing blog series examining key elements of the Aesthetic Movement through the lens of John Stanhope’s masterwork Love and the Maiden (typically on view in gallery 18 at the Legion of Honor and currently on view in The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860–1900), curatorial assistant of European art Melissa Buron takes a closer look at color.

Love and the Maiden

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (English, 1829–1908). Love and the Maiden, 1877. Tempera, gold paint and gold leaf on canvas. Museum purchase, European Art Trust Fund, Grover A. Magnin Bequest Fund and Dorothy Spreckels Munn Bequest Fund. 2002.176

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FRAME|WORK: George Washington by Rembrandt Peale

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on February 22, 2012

FRAME|WORK is a weekly blog series that highlights an artwork in the Museums' permanent collections. On Monday, the Museums were closed in observance of Presidents Day and today is the birthday of American painter Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860). In honor of these two occasions, we feature Peale’s iconic portrait of George Washington, which is currently on display in Gallery 27 at the de Young.

George Washington

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Museum Without Walls: A Studio Visit with Todd T. Brown

Posted by Andrea Martin on January 27, 2012

In continuation of our series Museum Without Walls, we visited Todd T. Brown’s studio as he prepares for his final exhibition as an Artist Fellow at the de Young. Inheritance and Dreams will be on display in the Kimball Education Gallery February 1–12.

Todd T. Brown

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