Anderson Collection at Stanford University

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

Reopening Wednesday, September 22nd

Free Ticket Reservation

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New Exibition:

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

Eamon Ore-Giron in conversation with Jason Linetzky

October 1, 2021 at 6:30pm

Second Sunday at Home

October 10, 2021 at 11:00am

Art Talk: Sam Richardson Revisited

October 15, 2021 at Noon, PST

Recent News

Bay Area Visual Art Exhibitions Not to Miss this Fall

KQED | September 1, 2021

“Reaching Towards Warmer Suns”: A Q&A with artist Kiyan Williams ’13

The Stanford Daily | August 19, 2021

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2 more days✨ [Sean Scully, Quintana Roo, 1980,

2 more days✨

[Sean Scully, Quintana Roo, 1980, oil on canvas, 84 x 42 1/4 in.]

We officially reopen on ✨September 22✨ Masks

We officially reopen on ✨September 22✨

Masks will be required and you can book a free ticket online (walk ins also welcome) What piece are you most excited to see?!

Joan Mitchell’s Before, Again IV (1985) from the

Joan Mitchell’s Before, Again IV (1985) from the Anderson Collection is currently on loan for the Joan Mitchell retrospective, now open at @sfmoma

Mitchell is considered part of the “second generation” of abstract expressionists, and one of the few women associated with the conventionally masculine movement. Mitchell’s large, gestural, “all over” paintings are infused with light and movement, often referencing landscapes or the natural world. “My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or field…it’s more like a poem…and that’s what I want to paint,” Mitchell said. Before, Again IV comes from the late part of Mitchell’s career, after she was diagnosed with cancer. During this period, she made some of her most experimental work, and thought of painting as a form of transcendence and nurturing, and as the antithesis of death.

If you visit Mitchell’s Before, Again IV (1985) at SFMOMA, say hello!

[Joan Mitchell, Before, Again IV, 1985, oil on canvas, 110 x 78 3/4 in., 2014.1.078; Gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence]

Russian-born American sculptor Saul Baizerman pass

Russian-born American sculptor Saul Baizerman passed away #onthisday in 1957.

Lyndsey Kong, @stanford class of 2022, wrote “Baizerman was a Russian-born American sculptor and is best known for his labor-intensive, hand-hammering technique on the copper medium to create graceful relief sculptures, such as the beautiful female figure here named Largo-May. For each of these sculptors, Baizerman would arduously hammer a cold copper sheet on both sides, allowing a cocoon-like image to appear in relief. Through this practice, Baizerman aligns himself with the strenuous exertions of the manual laborers, expressing his solidarity with the working class.”

[Saul Baizerman, Largo May, 1950-1957, hammered copper]

We’re reinstalling the galleries and getting (ve

We’re reinstalling the galleries and getting (very) excited to welcome you back soon 🤩

Until we can have you back in the galleries, here’s a throwback to wish you a happy SUNday, courtesy of Josef Albers & @erinlovesfun ☀️
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[Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: Diffused, 1969. Oil on masonite panel. © 2014 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

Jackson Pollock passed away #onthisday in 1956.

Jackson Pollock passed away #onthisday in 1956.

“His work Lucifer (1947) is among the earliest examples of Pollock’s own groundbreaking approach, which involved dripping, pouring, and splattering paint directly onto a canvas that had been tacked to the floor. A dense network of paint covers the entire surface of the canvas, creating an “all-over” composition. The bursts of yellow, red, orange, blue, and purple were squeezed directly from paint tubes. Pollock then propped the canvas on its side to add the final color, green; the resulting horizontal drips emphasize the painting’s panoramic dimensions.

Pollock gave Lucifer to Grant Mark, a chemist whom he began seeing in 1952 for his alcoholism, as payment for his services. Referring both to the morning star (which in Latin is called lux ferre, or light bringing) and the fallen angel by that name, the title Lucifer poignantly suggests an endless fall into the depths of the picture and the artist’s psyche.”-Sidney Simon, @stanford PhD ‘18

[Jackson Pollock, Lucifer, 1947, oil and enamel on canvas, 41 3/16 X 105 1/2 in., Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, 2014.1.019. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS)] #JacksonPollock #Pollock

Summer break is almost over for Pollock, Rothko, S

Summer break is almost over for Pollock, Rothko, Still, Diebenkorn, and de Kooning. You’ve got two more weeks to go see ‘Anderson at the Cantor,’ closing August 15th!

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