…room, it now enjoys a prime spot in the museum’s Abstract Expressionist space, along with other important works from the movement by Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, David Smith and Robert Motherwell. Although the current installation includes 104 pieces from the gift, museum director Jason Linetzky noted, “There will be opportunities to bring in additional works from the original gift. Visitors will see how the experience changes when wor…

…re given high visibility. Jason Linetzky, director of the Anderson Collection, told A.i.A. that the diversity of works paints an equitable picture of the postwar American art scene. What’s unusual, he says, is that while the Andersons were buying in the late 1960s and ’70s New York School works created 20 years before by Pollock and de Kooning, they were also collecting contemporary works by California Funk artists like the irreverent…

…in the last five years is the original installation and the dramatically expanded public programs. The number of works in the collection has also increased. The Anderson Collection added 13 works of art to the original 121 in 2017: a watercolor and gouache by Minnesota abstract painter Bill Jensen given by Mary C. Downe; three sculptural works and eight works on paper by Bay Area figurative artist Manuel Neri given by The Manuel Neri Trust; and a…

…the opportunity to experience three steps of his career,” he continued. “These additions create new context for how we understand each artist’s practice – and how they pushed one another as rivals and friends. Both felt they were inventing something new, and these works help us think about what it means to approach something like no one has done it before.” The newest acquisitions are now on view and are accessible to the public for the first ti…

…with replaceable art, ” meaning no insult to the far less time-tested purchases of younger artists’ works that the couple continue to make. Since that day in Paris, Hunk, 91, and Moo, 87, have always approached collecting art as a team. “We’ve all read the same books, we’ve all looked at the same pictures, ” Moo said, “and that’s how you get to see things the same way. Hunk and I have never asked o…

…mily.  New to the collection is Bill Jensen’s watercolor and gouache Study for Denial, 1985-86; three sculptural works and eight works on paper ranging from 1958 to 1997 by Manuel Neri; and Mary Weatherford’s black painting, 2017. The new acquisitions are in keeping with the original collection of 121 works of post-World War II modern and contemporary American art by 86 artists given to Stanford by Harry W. “Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson…

…amily. New to the collection is Bill Jensen’s watercolor and gouache Study for Denial, 1985-86; three sculptural works and eight works on paper ranging from 1958 to 1997 by Manuel Neri; and Mary Weatherford’s black painting, 2017. The new acquisitions are in keeping with the original collection of 121 works of post-World War II modern and contemporary American art by 86 artists given to Stanford by Harry W. “Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson…

…rson, did not collect photography but nearly every other means of artistic expression are represented, including works on paper. The museum is shining a light on this aspect of the Anderson’s collecting with an exhibition, “Salon Style: Collected Marks on Paper,” that features drawings, collages and paintings. These works, on display until Aug. 20, are not part of the original gift of 121 works to the museum, but are included in…

…emporary exhibitions. When I visited there was an exhibition called Salon Style II, which featured a grouping of works on paper by several of the artists in the collection shown salon-style, which is to say in groupings on the wall. There were engaging works by Elizabeth Murray, Wallace Berman (a favorite of mine), Ed Ruscha and Terry Winters among others. Upstairs on the second level were selections from the Anderson collection organized along s…

…y through February 12, 2018, offers up a choice selection of sculptures in plaster, marble, and bronze, and also works on paper by Manuel Neri, the 87 year-old dean of Bay Area figurative sculptors. Inspired by a gift from the Manuel Neri Trust to the Anderson Collection of three sculptural works and eight works on paper and supplemented by loans and a work already in the Anderson Collection, the exhibition demonstrates how the artist has engaged…

…g work by contemporary artists such as Susan Rothenberg, Terry Winters, Martin Puryear and Robert Therrien. Many works by them will go to the Stanford museum. However, the ranch house will be far from empty. An additional Jackson Pollock painting, an Alexander Calder mobile, the family Noldes and many other works of art will remain in their possession. Anderson, 91, earned his nickname in high school playing football after the Notre Dame player H…

…ddaughter Devin Pence. Instead, it has now become an impromptu memorial to her. “Moo and Hunk believed these two works would provide more insight into the artists’ creative journeys,” said Putter Pence, “and given Moo’s love of learning, we can’t imagine a better way to honor her legacy.” Totem Lesson 1 (1944) by Jackson Pollock, one of his most significant works. Photo: Anderson Collection The Pollock painting is 6 by 4 feet and was shown at his…