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Mary Margaret ‘Moo’ Anderson, modern art collector and benefactor, dead at 92

…summer of 1948. On one of their first dates, Anderson garbled the name “Murma” when introducing her to a friend named Moose. He heard her name as “Moo Moo” not “Murma” and it was Moo from that point on, according to her granddaughter Devin Pence. Hunk and Moo were married in 1950. By then Anderson and two partners had started a venture to improve dormitory food service and it soon expanded across the country. The company, Saga Corp., moved to Me…

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Works by Pollock, de Kooning donated to Stanford’s Anderson Collection

…intings were last shown in the Bay Area during the survey “Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection” from 2000 to 2001 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “These are two of the most coveted works by these influential artists still in private hands,” said Jason Linetzky, director of the Anderson Collection. “They were really the leaders of the Abstract Expressionists in New York.” The announcement comes less than a week after the dea…

Stanford art museums, Frost Amphitheater begin to reopen