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

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Hostile Terrain 94
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Hostile Terrain 94

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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…

The Building

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Anderson Collection at Stanford University to be displayed in an elegant new home

…s between the two venues. This is the fourth Ennead project on the Stanford campus, after the Cantor Arts Center addition in 1998, the Stanford Law School William H. Neukom Building in 2011 and Bing Concert Hall scheduled to be completed in 2013. Design details The Anderson building has three primary faces. The eastern, main entry façade is set back from the original neoclassical façade of the Cantor while preserving and respecting several herita…

Newsmaker Interview: Ennead’s Richard Olcott Designs a New Museum for Stanford University

Stanford’s art explosion in heart of Silicon Valley

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Stanford arts don’t take a break

…s: Robert Rauschenberg’s “Stoned Moon” Projects, 1969–70 opens at the Cantor on Saturday, Dec. 20, and runs through Mar. 16, 2015. In 1969, American artist Robert Rauschenberg was invited by the NASA Art Program to document the launch of Apollo 11, the first manned spaceflight to the moon. Rauschenberg produced Stoned Moon, a series of large-format lithographs replete with scenes of astronauts, complex machinery and various regi…

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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…

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Harry ‘Hunk’ Anderson, modern art collector and philanthropist, dies at 95

…dollars. Harry W. Anderson was born Oct. 5, 1922, in Corning, N.Y., and raised in the small town in the state’s Southern Tier, south of the Finger Lakes region. His father was from Sweden and his mother from Norway. During World War II, he served in the Army on a crew that built a pipeline from India to Burma. He came home in 1946 with an Army-issue haircut and used the GI Bill to enroll at Hobart College in New York, where he hit on an idea to…

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

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Forms That Don’t Yet Exist: Kiyan Williams Interviewed by Louis Bury

…e at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University installing Reaching Towards Warmer Suns, July 29–December 5, 2021. Photo by Andrew Brodhead. Courtesy of Stanford University. LB How do you understand your way of working in relation to predecessors? KW The additive way that I layer soil on top of itself feels related to historical processes, to the way soil can conceal history but can also reveal it when things are unearthed. In terms of art hi…

Lita Albuquerque, “Stellar Axis”

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Manuel Neri: Assertion of the Figure

The Catalogues

Family Programs

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Anderson Collection opens to public on Sept. 21

…s 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 at anderson.stanford.edu, walk-up tickets will also be available. Donated by Harry W. Anderson, Mary Margaret Anderson and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, the Anderson Collectio…

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Anderson Collection at Stanford solidifies Bay Area’s art stature

…g introduction to one of the world’s most important private collections. The long-anticipated institution, adjacent to the Cantor Arts Center, features a formidable cache of modern and contemporary art and certifies the Bay Area’s growing international stature as a destination for lovers and scholars of 20th and 21st century visual arts. The new museum tracks half a century’s effort – stunningly successful – at self-…