Anderson Collection at Stanford University

Welcome to the Anderson Collection!
Stanford University's free museum of modern and contemporary American art

Now Open: Wed - Sun

11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Free Ticket Reservation

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New Exhibition:

Eamon Ore-Giron:
Non Plus Ultra

September 23, 2021 - February 20, 2022

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New Exhibition:

Sam Richardson:
Islands, Ice, and Sand

September 23, 2021 - March 13, 2022

Current Exibition:

Reaching Towards Warmer Suns

July 29, 2021 - December 5, 2021

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Ongoing Exibition:

Hostile Terrain 94

Upcoming Programs

Art Breaks With Student Guides

December 8, 2021 at Noon, PST

Second Sunday at Home

December 12, 2021 at 11:00am

Art Breaks With Student Guides

January 12, 2022 at Noon, PST

Recent News

Forms That Don’t Yet Exist: Kiyan Williams Interviewed by Louis Bury

Bomb Magazine | November 11, 2021

New acquisition by David Park on view at the Anderson Collection

Stanford Arts | September 30, 2021

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🔳🔲 [Mark Rothko, Untitled (Black on Gray),

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[Mark Rothko, Untitled (Black on Gray), 1969, acrylic on canvas] #MarkRothko #onview

You’ve got less than 2 weeks left to experience

You’ve got less than 2 weeks left to experience Kiyan Willams’ Reaching Towards Warmer Suns, on view through December 5th ☝️ The piece was originally installed along the banks of the Powhatan River (James River) in Richmond, Virginia, where some of the first enslaved Black people touched land in the new/ruined world. The work is made of soil from the river and emerged from Williams’ time along the slave docks of Virginia within the context of the pandemic and protests against on-going anti-Black police violence. Williams explains how the sculpture arose from a need to mark the paths of slavery as sacred, and “memorialize on-going struggles of self-determination for Black people.”

📸: @kevincombellack

We think @christopherpizzi got it just right, don’t you? 🎨

Happy ①⓪①st birthday to artist Wayne Thiebau

Happy ①⓪①st birthday to artist Wayne Thiebaud!

Thiebaud is well known for his images of food, ranging from lollipops to display cakes, he practically frosts the surface of the canvas with paint to suggest the shiny stickiness of caramel. Celebrate Thiebaud’s life (and sweet tooth) with us by rewatching the inaugural Burt and Deedee McMurtry Lecture from 2015, where he shared his thoughts on his practice, teaching, and learning with our @stanford campus community.

Head to our stories for the link!

Artist Jay DeFeo passed away #onthisday in 1989 at

Artist Jay DeFeo passed away #onthisday in 1989 at the age of 60.

DeFeo’s work incorporates the dualities of representation and abstraction, organic rhythms and geometry, refinement and expressionism. She worked with unorthodox materials to explore the broadest definitions of sculpture, drawing, collage, and painting. Come visit DeFeo’s Summer Image (For My Mother), currently on view.

To learn more about the artist, check out the @jaydefeofoundation.

[Jay DeFeo, Summer Image (For My Mother), 1983, oil and acrylic on paper
67 3/4 x 44 3/4 in, Gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence.]

Join us (virtually) today at noon for the next Art

Join us (virtually) today at noon for the next Art Break with student guides!

Carolina Borbon Miranda, Symbolic Systems '23 will be giving a talk entitled "Human Figures, Unconventionally.” Miranda invites us to explore the various ways in which art can depict humanity. Manuel Neri’s Japanese Dancer will be making an appearance ☝️ find the RSVP link in our stories.

[Manuel Neri, Japanese Dancer Series No. 2 [Makiko] 1980]

Who wore it better, @zoelatzer or Eamon Ore-Giron?

Who wore it better, @zoelatzer or Eamon Ore-Giron? 😊✨

Artist Sam Francis passed away on this day in 1994

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