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Collage and Ink Figure Study No. 35 [Joan Brown]

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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…

Elite Collection of Modern Masters to Anchor Stanford’s Growing ‘Arts District’

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Stanford’s Anderson Collection museum to feature trove of couple’s art

…will be moved to an elegant new museum on the campus of Stanford University called the Anderson Collection. The Andersons — known widely as Hunk and Moo — along with their daughter Mary Pat Pence, known as Putter, and granddaughter Devin Pence are on hand to provide a tour of the ranch house’s collection before it is transferred to Stanford. Hunk explains that the family has a “collection of collections.” They began buying art…

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Hot Art Bling the New Thing on the Peninsula

…sual passer-by will be entranced by the light of the artwork spilling out onto the street. Even those unfamiliar with Turrell’s work may have been exposed by Drake’s video for “Hotline Bling,” albeit without Turrell’s consent: his work was ripped off. (For the record, Turrell has reportedly said he’s not that irked by the hip hop artist’s co-option of his art.)   Pace, which has represented Turrell for years, is a bit of an art world celebri…

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Honing the art of observation, and observing art

…school course brings students to the Cantor Arts Center and Anderson Collection to practice close observation of art, and then learn how to translate those skills to a clinical setting. MAR 6 201 Medical students Sam Cartmell (facing camera) and Abhinav Golla (in red sweatshirt) look at Robert Frank’s Car Accident — U.S. 66, Between Winslow and Flagstaff, Arizona at the Cantor Arts Center, with Sarah Naftalis (far right), a graduate student…

Helen Frankenthaler came from wealth and privilege. Her art transcends that.

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The Anderson Collection at Stanford: An Uplifting Experience

…as a genuine passion for art. You can see it in the photo of Moo above as she showed up in her sneakers to watch a work being installed, and you could hear it in the remarks that Hunk made to a crowd of donors on September 19th. Apparently he cut himself a few years ago while assisting with the assembly of a large Frank Stella relief. Hunk got a nice laugh from the crowd when he mused that he may have left a little bit of blood behind on the piec…

Review: Anderson Collection of 20th-century art opens Sept. 21

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Contemplations on modern art

…ced on artists 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…

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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…

Self-Guided Tours Developed by Stanford Students

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Anderson Collection a modern art trove not to be missed

…and before coming here.” “There’s an incredible Mark Rothko (‘Pink and White Over Red’) that’s just beautiful — a seductive red painting.” “Robert Irwin’s untitled disk is capturing people’s attention. There’s this shadow quality — he was very interested in the transience of time and light. Hopefully you get lost in it a little bit.” “Agnes Martin’s (Untitled #21) is another work that I would hope people come and spend time with. There are just…

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

…y-combined foodstuffs or luminous plastics. Maria Guzman Capron, ‘Beverage Cart’ (detail), 2015. (Photo by the artist) Maria Guzman Capron City Limits Gallery Oct. 2 – Nov. 7, 2015 After seeing bits and pieces of Maria Guzman Capron’s work at the 2015 CCA MFA thesis show, I’m looking forward to an entire room of her fabric, ceramic and sculptural work without the distractions that accompany a gigantic group show. At CCA, her work resembled bri…

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

by Sheryl Nonnenberg / Palo Alto Weekly “How did they fit all this art in their house?” That was the question of the day at the media preview for Stanford’s new Anderson Collection, which opens to the public with a grand celebration this Sunday, September 21. Being surrounded by museum-quality works by artists including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Richard Diebenkorn was a way of life for collectors Harry W. and Mary Marga…

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American Progress: Wendy Red Star’s Exhibition at the Anderson Collection

…hen she first encountered John Gast’s 1872 painting American Progress in a 101 Art History class as an undergrad at Montana State University, she was startled. As her professor spoke at length about the formal aspects of the artwork, she was impressed instead by, in her own words, “the things that were literally falling off the edge of the canvas.” In the painting, as the white settlers enter into the frame by the East and expand westward, with d…

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The Do List: Cy and David’s Picks

…Cave, an African American artist who makes funny sculptures that are like giant, glittery sock pockets decorated with beads, buttons, sequins, and human hair. Sometimes he puts dancers in the suits (Cave trained with Alvin Ailey) and calls it performance art. Whatever  you call it, it’s very cool stuff and very worth a visit to Stanford. Both the Anderson Collection and the Cantor are always free, so it’s one of our Cheap Thrills this week. &nbsp…