…e extraordinary collection of the late Harry W. “Hunk” and Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson. The result of a mutually beneficial relationship between the local couple and the university, the Anderson holds a world-renowned collection of post-World War II American art that once graced the halls of the Saga Corporation, (Harry Anderson was one of the founders) and later, the Quadrus office complex on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park…

Art collector and Stanford donor Harry “Hunk” Anderson dies at 95 The longtime friend of the university welcomed Stanford graduate students to study the art in his home and office, and then he and his family made the collection accessible to the world through a transformative gift. BY ROBIN WANDER Stanford neighbor, friend and philanthropist Harry W. “Hunk” Anderson died on Feb. 7 at his Bay Area Peninsula home surrounded by his family….

…ation as a gathering place to advance scholarship and dialogue about great works of modern American art, and for their enjoyment by the public.” The new paintings complement more than 130 works of modern and contemporary American art by 87 artists in the museum’s existing permanent collection. Totem Lesson 1 is now the earliest piece in the museum, expanding the chronological range of its collection from the tail end of World War II to the presen…

…e Sculpture kirkmcguire.com Amazing Bronze Sculptures & Tables LTD ­ Fine Art & Furnishings On Sept. 21, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University will open its doors to the public for the first time. The new campus gallery will permanently house highlights of the couple’s postwar American art – considered one of the most important collections of its kind in the world – that have been transferred from the Andersons&…

…it?” Collecting art took them on an exhilarating journey to the new, and stretched their hearts and minds in ways it would not have been possible otherwise. The Gift of Inspiration Today they’ve donated 121 “irreplaceable” artworks to Stanford University, who built a standalone museum for the collection. “It became bigger than a family”, says Hunk Anderson, “it needed to be shared with the world”….

…d museum bids farewell to a vanishing culture — to a slower, more deliberate and more personal collecting style. The Andersons began collecting in the 1960s, when the art world was small and insular and museums weren’t defined by a philosophy of grow-or-die corporatism. Buying and selling contemporary painting and sculpture had not become the spectator sport they are today, dominated by international collectors forged in the expansive conte…

…; checklist of important work. Most radically, what the Anderson hopes to achieve with its exhibited art is what inspired the Anderson family to assemble the collection: the alchemy that occurs when exposed to great art. “It’s good to study art in books, but something happens in the presence of the original,” Harry W. Anderson once said. ‘It affects the brain, taste, feelings and more.’ Today, the Anderson Collection at Stanford has been seen fre…