Horace Pippin
1888–1946
The Trial of John Brown, 1942
Oil on canvas
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
twenty-six things tagged “san francisco”
Alexander Pope
1849-1924
The Wild Swan, 1900
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, gifts from members of the Board of Trustees, the M. H. de Young Museum Society, the Patrons of Art and Music, Friends of the Museums, and by exchange, Sir Joseph Duveen
George De Forest Brush
1855–1941
A Celtic Huntress, 1890
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, partial gift of Roderick McManigal and funds from the Fine Arts Museums Foundation, Art Trust Fund, and the Ethel M. Copelotti Estate
James McNeill Whistler
1834-1903
The Gold Scab: Eruption in Frilthy Lucre (The Creditor), 1879
Oil on canvas
Gift of Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels through the Patrons of Art and Music
Mike Henderson
b. 1944
The Scream, 1966
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, American Art Trust Fund, and gift of the Peter Lipman Foundation, an anonymous donor, and William Reller
Jefferson David Chalfant
1856–1931
Bouguereau’s Atelier at the Académie Julian, Paris, 1891
Oil on panel
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Karen LaMonte
b. 1967
Dress 3, 2001
Cast glass
Loan from Dorothy and George Saxe
Edmund Charles Tarbell
1862–1938
The Blue Veil, 1898
Oil on canvas
Gift of Henry K. S. Williams
Unknown
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Stela with Ix Mutal Ahaw, 761CE
Limestone
Museum purchase, gift of Mrs. Paul L. Watts
William Morris
b. 1957
Turkana Woman (Man Adorned series), 2001
Blown glass
Partial and promised gift of Dorothy and George Saxe 2001.123
Nicolas Africano
b. 1948
Untitled, 2007
Cast glass
Partial gift of Dorothy and George Saxe to the Fine Arts Museums Foundation 2008.75.5
Mary Ann (Toots) Zynsky
b. 1951
Sopratutto, 2007
Fused glass
Partial gift of Dorothy and George Saxe to the Fine Arts Museums Foundation 2008.75.178
Nicolas Africano
b. 1948
Untitled, 2006
Cast glass
Partial gift of Dorothy and George Saxe to the Fine Arts Museums Foundation 2008.75.4
Ronald Lockett
1965–1998
Fever Within, 1995
Found tin, colored pencil, and nails on wood
Museum purchase, American Art Trust Fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection 2017.1.38
Walter Kuhlman
1918–2009
Memento Mori, 1973–1974
Oil on canvas
Gift of Gary Spratt 2009.76
Edwin Walter Dickinson
1891–1978
The 'Cello Player, 1924–1926
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Income Fund 1988.5
Teikichi Hikoyama
1884–1957
Mt. Tamalpais, 1927
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, Volunteer Council Art Acquisition Fund 2016.18
Chiura Obata
1885-1975
Artist materials, 2002
Various
Gift of the Obata Family, 2002
Mel Ramos
1935–2018
Superman, 1962
Oil on canvas
Jess (Burgess Franklin Collins)
1923–2004
If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink, 1962
Oil on canvas
Robert Motherwell
1915–1991
At Five in the Afternoon, 1950
Oil on hardboard
Matthew Barney's Cremaster Logo
Matthew Barney suspended himself in this space to draw those squiggles that feature his Cremaster Cycle logo (he calls them “Field Emblems”). Not a good shot since you can’t tell the sizes of things but this is a pretty large and cavernous space. The Cremaster films are some of the weirdest things…
12x23x12
by Sol DeWitt. ‘Only’ wood and paint but you can stare at this thing forever.…
Malediction
By Martin Puryear. Red cedar, pine, black locust, ash, and rattan.…
Vertigo
(1958)
I saw this with my Dad twenty-nine years ago. He thought it was Hitchcock’s greatest movie. I’d forgotten all about it until Catherine and I were trying to find something to watch and consulted the AFI’s 10 Top 10 list for the best mysteries (of course). I’ve read that people love rewatching it and…
Rating: A
Drone Footage of San Francisco amidst Wildfires set to “Blade Runner”
by u/skinnybonez32. Here’s the original video. Unbelievable.…