…1; before they first visited Paris in 1964 and made their way into the Louvre. “We became so enamored with the visual experience that on the way home, we looked at each other and said, ‘How could all this have been going on and we not have been a part of it?’ ” said Harry “Hunk” Anderson. The museum excursion lasted only half a day, but it turned into a lifetime of collecting art. Fifty years and about 2,000 ac…

…ilding, designed by Richard Olcott, contains works by 86 artists, the fruit of nearly 50 years of collecting and the product of self-education on the part of Harry and Mary Anderson. A 1964 visit to Paris’s museums inspired the couple to begin collecting. “We started off very naively,” 92-year-old Harry Anderson told A.i.A., “thinking that art was somebody we would play golf with.” Bowled over by the aesthetic experi…

…tember, the 583-acre ranch — which is open to the public on an extremely limited basis — offers sculpture hikes. The tours highlight pieces created and donated over the years by those in the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Silicon Valley Open Studios takes place each May. This weekend focuses on central Silicon Valley (including Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View), while the third and final weekend of May 20-21 covers the southern area and…

…r she highlights the unity of the earth and the sky. Her fascination for ultramarine blue leads us to experience the sublime in nature, through altered environments that alchemise our emotions and deepen our sense of belonging to the universal. Lita Albuquerque, NAJMA (She Placed One Thousand Suns Over the Transparent Overlays of Space), Desert X AlUla, Saudi Arabia, January 31, 2020. Photo Courtesy: Lance Gerber; Courtesy of Lita Albuquerq…

…tors. The news is of significance to everyone for reasons described in this article. Lucifer, the crown jewel of the Anderson Collection, moved to Stanford with a retinue of 120 colorful accomplices he’s befriended while living at the Andersons’ residence. The whole gang is now happily installed in a custom-designed museum on the Stanford campus. With room to spread and a loving staff, they now have the means to receive visitors daily…

…as well as Northern California artists such as David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, William Wiley and Robert Arneson. The Andersons made a point of organizing the catalog according to the dates that works were acquired to illuminate how the collection was formed but also to highlight that work by West and East Coast artists were purchased simultaneously. “We’ve been waiting 20 years for this,” says Hunk, looking around the empty gall…

…“Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson bought “Lucifer” — one of Jackson Pollock’s prized action paintings and the latest addition to the family’s private art collection — they hung it over their daughter’s bed. Mary Patricia “Putter” Anderson grew up like most girls, hosting slumber  parties and fighting the temptation to give Pollock’s painting new “drips.” This privilege — to learn and live among masterpieces — is yours now. In 2011, the And…

The Anderson Collection at Stanford: An Uplifting Experience Posted: 09/24/2014 2:51 pm EDT  Updated: 2 hours ago Visiting the newly-opened Anderson Collection at Stanford requires taking everything — your body and your expectations — up a level. After entering the building’s main lobby — which will cost you nothing as the Anderson is free — you will ascend a grand staircase that plateaus at the building&#8217…