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Stanford University's free museum of modern and contemporary American art

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Homage to the Square: Diffused

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Standing Figure II

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Anderson Collection opens to public on Sept. 21

…public at its new Stanford University home this Sunday, Sept. 21, in a freestanding pavilion next to the Cantor Arts Center in the University’s growing arts district. Members of the Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection can also attend a special preview of the museum on Sept. 20. Opening day festivities will include food trucks, music, activities and digital tours. Admission is free, and while visitors can reserve timed tickets online a…

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New acquisition by David Park on view at the Anderson Collection

…, 1959, and works by other Bay Area figurative painters such as Stanford alumnus Richard Diebenkorn, Manuel Neri and Nathan Oliveira, who taught at Stanford. Bay Area figurative art is a particular strength of the Anderson Collection and the second Park painting is an important acquisition. A collection of essays about the painting by Nancy Boas, Helen Park Bigelow and John Seed will be available in the galleries and online at the time of the ope…

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Hunk, Moo Anderson give modern art masterpieces to Stanford

…ler in old master drawings, they met Andre Emmerich, proprietor of one of Manhattan’s leading contemporary art galleries. In 1969, Emmerich introduced the Andersons to the owner of “Lucifer,” lawyer and movie producer Joseph Hazen, who worried the painting wouldn’t fit in his new home. The couple got the anchor of their core collection. “We paid a record price for it at the time,” Hunk said, characteristically…

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Instead of Changing Leaves, Peep Eight Bay Area Art Shows this Fall

…he Mills College Art Museum and San Francisco nonprofit Southern Exposure that was curated by Christian L. Frock and Tanya Zimbardo, Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s – Now brings together a group of female artists working in the public realm. Believing not all public art is monumental and not all monumental art is truly impactful,Public Works focuses on temporary interventions online and in the urban environment. The list of participati…

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Manuel Neri: Assertion of the Figure

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Anderson Collection at Stanford solidifies Bay Area’s art stature

…rby. Subjectively, as affirmed by the illusion of Still’s painting changing proportions and accessibility, artworks respond to all sorts of cultural echoes and other influences that we can seldom pinpoint easily. The Still at the top of the stairs prepares us to notice throughout the Anderson Collection fluctuating impressions made by artworks that initially seem foursquare and fully defined. Such an experience of art’s mutability is…

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‘Formed & Fired: Contemporary American Ceramics’ at the Anderson Collection breaks the mold

…porary American Ceramics at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. An exhibition of ceramics highlights artists who are reshaping ceramics in concept and craftsmanship. The exhibition – which features 11 works by Kathy Butterly, Kahlil Robert Irving, Simone Leigh and Brie Ruais – was postponed from spring 2020 and will be on view upon the museum’s reopening, hopefully in early 2021. A virtual tour of the show is available online now. “By…

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A new start for art at Stanford: Cantor Arts Center and Anderson Collection reopen

…ained the same (the venerable Rodin sculpture collection, for example), there have been some significant changes at both museums since they last welcomed in-person visitors. In addition to current health policies such as mask mandates, timed tickets and social distancing rules, perhaps the most notable difference can be found at the Cantor, which is now being led by two interim directors, Elizabeth Mitchell and Maude Brezinski. Mitchell, who is t…

Stanford art museums, Frost Amphitheater begin to reopen

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Harry W. “Hunk” Anderson dies at 95

…amily’s remarkable collection go to a place that would curate it in perpetuity, so that it could be used, shared and seen, reflected his philosophy that art can and should inspire all of us. All of us at Stanford will always have the deepest affection for Hunk as a generous, big-hearted man.” To date, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University has been seen by nearly 250,000 visitors. Every work in the museum is viewable online and the collec…

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Stanford unveils the Anderson Collection: New museum dedicated to renowned works of American art

…ot building, which was completed in May (the last four months have been spent delivering and installing the art) and constitutes another glittering jewel in the crown of the burgeoning campus arts district.  From private to public The museum houses 121 works of art by 86 artists, a gift to the university from the Andersons (affectionately known as Hunk and Moo) and their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence. The history of their collecting is b…

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Eamon Ore-Giron Named to Presidential Residency at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University

…tion for discourse around modern and contemporary art by raising voices that offer diverse lenses on its history and how our collection can play a role in understanding the course of American art,” said Jason Linetzky, director of the Anderson Collection. “As a painter, Eamon Ore-Giron combines architectural shapes—circles, triangles, arches, rectangles—in bold colors and interlocking compositions. His approach is also one of intersections: acros…