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The 2025 Burt and Deedee McMurtry Lecture video recording is now live!

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10th Anniversary Exhibition

The Journey Continues

Now through Aug. 31, 2025

 

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An Expanded Lens Exhibition

An Expanded Lens

Now through Aug. 17, 2025

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The Anderson Collection Turns 10

Join us for a year of celebrations!

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What to see at the Anderson Collection this year

The Talon | June 1, 2025
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10th-anniversary Anderson Collection exhibition redefines the narrative of contemporary art

Stanford Report | April 21, 2025

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Modern and contemporary American art including Martin, Nevelson, Pollock, Rothko, and more. The museum is always free!

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Spend a peaceful moment in our galleries this week Spend a peaceful moment in our galleries this weekend taking in the fluid forms and soothing palette of Serpentine (1961) by William Baziotes 🐍

Open Saturday and Sunday from 11-5 🏛 Head to our bio to plan your visit!
Brie Ruais’s large-scale works begin with a bloc Brie Ruais’s large-scale works begin with a block of clay equal to her own body weight. Working on the floor, Ruais pushes and kneads the clay from the center with her fingers, hands, knees, and feet. 

“I am shaping it as much as it is shaping me,” says Ruais of her process. 

In “Desiccating from Center (Salton Sea)” (2019), Ruais takes inspiration from the hues and textures of parched earth surrounding the now evaporating sea in Southern California’s Imperial Valley. Transporting visitors to the nexus of climate vulnerability, the work raises awareness of how both natural forces and our own actions play a role in shaping our environments.

🌊On view outside our Denning Family Resource Center as part of the current exhibition ‘The Journey Continues,’ on view through August 31. 

[Brie Ruais (b. 1982 Southern California), “Desiccating from Center (Salton Sea),” 2019. Glazed and pigmented stoneware, hardware. Collection of Mary Patricia Anderson Pence.]
“My work lies between intimacy and distance.” “My work lies between intimacy and distance.” - Vija Celmins 🌌

Inside the Vija Celmins solo exhibition at @fondationbeyeler is an exploration of the artist’s subtle and powerful visual language.

On view is a work Celmins painted in 1985 titled “Barrier,” one of many compositions depicting the night sky. The painting on loan from Stanford’s Anderson Collection represents only a fraction of what the cosmos contains. Yet, looking at the painting feels like peering into a telescope and knowing there is much more than what lies beyond the frame. 

‘Vija Celmins’ is on view at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen until September 21, 2025 🌑

Video: Jannik Hon @donhon | Photo: Mark Niedermann @mark_niedermann | Vija Celmins, Barrier, 1985-86, oil and wax on linen. Gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence.
Friendly reminder that we are closed tomorrow in o Friendly reminder that we are closed tomorrow in observance of the 4th of July 🌞 The museum will reopen to the public on July 5 and July 6 from 11-5. 

Visit our website to browse our extensive collection of American art online 🖼️ #clyffordstill #markrothko
Drawing upon her Mandan and Hidatsa heritage, Tere Drawing upon her Mandan and Hidatsa heritage, Teresa Baker’s wall-based pieces suggest the vast expanses of North Dakota, where she spent her childhood 🌾

In her work titled “Signal” (2023), Baker integrates traditional Mandan and Hidatsa materials, such as willow and parfleche, with artificial turf. This interchange between natural and synthetic elements reflects contemporary Native identity interpreted through abstraction. 

View this eight-foot-long work in our museum lobby as part of our current exhibition ‘The Journey Continues.’ Head to our bio for more ↑ 

[Teresa Baker (b. 1985 Watford City, ND), “Signal,” 2024. Yarn, parfleche, and willow on artificial turf. Courtesy of the Artist & de boer, Los Angeles & Antwerp. Collection of Mary Patricia Anderson Pence.]
Did you know that we host free art tours every wee Did you know that we host free art tours every week? We're open from Wednesday to Sunday, but visit us on Thursdays and Saturdays for tours of our American art collection led by one of our museum guides:

⭐ Saturday from 12:30-1:30pm PT
⭐ Saturday from 2:30-3:30pm PT
⭐ Thursday from 12-12:15pm PT (single-artwork spotlight)

No reservations are needed! Head to our bio for everything you need to know about visiting the Anderson Collection 🖼 | Philip Guston, 'The Coat II,' 1977. On view in 'An Expanded Lens.'
London-based painter and sculptor Michaela Yearwoo London-based painter and sculptor Michaela Yearwood-Dan creates compositions celebrating abundance, intimacy, and community, centering joy as an active and restorative force 🌸

“My sugah, my honey, my tenda lovah” is a rich composition featuring signature motifs in Yearwood-Dan’s practice: botanical subjects, gestural marks, and lush colors. A deeper look at this painting reveals its multidimensional quality enhanced through ceramic, petal-like adornments and a handwritten paper note affixed in the bottom right corner. 

⭐️An exploration of Black, queer, and feminine histories, Yearwood-Dan’s practice proposes personal reflection and communal care as means of challenging dominant power structures. 

We’re delighted to have her work on view and add new dimensions to our museum’s story of contemporary art in our current exhibition ‘The Journey Continues.’ Plan your visit to the exhibition at the link in our bio!

[Michaela Yearwood-Dan (Born in 1994, London), “My sugar, my honey, my tenda lovah,” 2024. Oil, paper, and earthenware ceramics on canvas. © Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Collection of Mary Patricia Anderson Pence.]
Today marks the first day of summer! Celebrate the Today marks the first day of summer! Celebrate the start of the season with Richard Diebenkorn’s “Girl on the Beach” (1957), on view upstairs in our exhibition ‘An Expanded Lens.’ 

In 1940, Diebenkorn received formal art training at Stanford and established the Bay Area as his home. Diebenkorn is known to be a key player and teacher in the Bay Area Figurative Movement alongside Paul Wonner, David Park, and others also exhibited in this section of the exhibition. Painted during the artist’s prolific years spent living in Berkeley from 1953-1966, “Girl on the Beach” presents a blissful scene bathed in the bright light that Northern Californians know and cherish. 

[Richard Diebenkorn, Girl on the Beach, 1957, oil on canvas. Gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence. Artwork ©The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. Photo by Glen Cheriton.]
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