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Hunk, Moo Anderson give modern art masterpieces to Stanford
Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson didn’t know much about art – they’d dabbled in antiques – 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 muse…
The Anderson Collection at Stanford: An Uplifting Experience
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’…
The Magic of The Anderson Collection
Pollock’s Lucifer now resides at Stanford University and is welcoming visitors. 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 ro…
Contemplations on modern art
…ists like Rothko. But seeing such pieces in a museum in front of you feels very different than looking at images online after Googling the artist. These large canvases and colors, though they are just large patterns, weigh on you, and that weight was calming. It almost had an aura that transcended my mind from my real life, making me not ponder about the events of my daily life for a bit. I was sitting down, and the painting on the wall next to i…
Stanford’s Anderson Collection museum to feature trove of couple’s art
…l and others were donated to the museum in 1992 and seven Frank Stella paintings from 1959 to 1988 were given in 2001. Much of their collection was shown at the museum in 2000, in “Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection.” (They also collected prints and gave more than 650 to San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums in 1996, which transferred them to the De Young.) However, what the Andersons call their “core collection&#…
Hot Art Bling the New Thing on the Peninsula
The coming relaunch of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has lots of people buzzing in anticipation. But downtown San Francisco is not the only place where truly exciting things are happening on the visual arts front. Super-star artist James Turrell, for instance, is touching down in Palo Alto with a pocket-sized exhibition this week, ahead of a major retrospective of his work at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art in late May. Turrell is…
Harry W. “Hunk” Anderson dies at 95
…ation and, with his wife, Mary Margaret “Moo,” and daughter, Mary Patricia “Putter,” a devoted art collector. In 2011, Stanford announced that it would become home to the core of the Anderson Collection, one of the most outstanding private collections of 20th-century American art in the world. The collection of 121 works by 86 artists housed in an award-winning building designed by Ennead Architects in Stanford’s arts district opened to the publi…
Pollock’s stellar ‘Lucifer’ and impressive Anderson Collection
…to realize that Stanford has never been home to a major art collection. The closest it has come is the group of 200 sculptures by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), mostly contemporary bronze casts, housed at the Cantor Arts Center adjacent to the new museum. Overnight, the Anderson Collection catapults Stanford into the top tier of American university museum art collections. “Lucifer” joins another 83 paintings and 37 sculptures by 86 artis…
Ceremonial turning of the soil delights the Anderson family and guests
…llection is a 33,000-square-foot building designed by Richard Olcott/Ennead Architects that will be completed in 2014. The Anderson Collection building and the Bing Concert Hall, set to open in January 2013, together with the Cantor Arts Center, play a major role in the development of the arts district that will also include a new home for the Department of Art and Art History, the McMurtry Building. The Anderson gift and the new arts district bu…
Manuel Neri’s Chromatic Chaos
…Seated, (1959) aluminum with Alborada patina; oil-based pigments with yellow glaze, cast 1963, re-patina applied 2016, 30 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄2 x 27 inches; pedestal: 30 x 19 x 27 inches (all photos courtesy of the Anderson Collection unless otherwise noted) STANFORD, Calif. — Manuel Neri: Assertion of the Figure, on view at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University through February 12, 2018, offers up a choice selection of sculptures in plaster, mar…
The Anderson Collection presents a solo exhibition of works by Stanford alum Stephanie Syjuco
…torical materials are objective or neutral. Installation shot of Stephanie Syjuco’s “Block Out the Sun,” 2021. Single-channel video with sound. Edition of 3 +2AP. (Image credit: Courtesy of the artist, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York. Photo: John Janca) The exhibition opened on Sept. 18 and will be on view through March 5, 2023. The Anderson Collection is always free and open to the public. “Present…