…idn’t know it couldn’t be done,” Harry admits, “so we just went ahead and did it.” The new museum puts Stanford in the front ranks among elite university museums (especially as it complements the school’s Cantor Art Center, founded in 1891), but it’s got a laid-back, West-coast vibe. Visiting is like dropping in on the Andersons’ unpretentious, ranch-style home nearby. Olcott, of New York-based Enne…

…nderson Collection at Stanford University miss seeing you. We are eager to welcome you back to campus, share art and connect over ideas. Now through August 31, 2020, we are offering all Stanford graduates in the class of 2020 one year of free Ambassador membership ($100 value*) to both museums. Each membership covers up to two adults and children within a single household. To get your FREE membership, fill out the form available via this link….

…ctions of purely abstract forms — in other words, from accurate depictions of real objects to compositions based entirely on geometric shapes and patterns. In this piece, Diebenkorn plays with composition, lines and color. The artist is known for decomposing scenes from life into conglomerates of lines and shapes, as he does in “Ocean Park #60.” Diebenkorn uses a subdued, cool color palette, alluding to the ocean, though he adds depth to his comp…

…eers Helen and Newton Harrison; and Jean Shin, the 2022-23 Denning Visiting Artist and an artist-in-residence in the lab of pediatric infectious diseases professor Angelle Desiree LaBeaud at Stanford School of Medicine. Shin is also this year’s Burt and Deedee McMurtry Lecture speaker on May 10. A convergence zone is an atmospheric region where two prevailing winds interact. The air and water flow conditions in convergence zones encourage accumul…

…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 museum excursion…

…aunching pad for the genre’s perceptual clarity. Committing every sin of “good” composition on the way to achieving its sublime ends, the beautiful painting is the perfect setup for an exquisite, lacquered acrylic disk by Robert Irwin. The disk, divided horizontally by a shadowy gray bar, is bathed in ambient light that appears to carve visual space as if it were a solid mass. The Bay Area and L.A. selections are not comprehensi…

…meal,” says Mr. Anderson, referring to the art that once hung there. How did they become Hunk and Moo? Mr. Anderson, now 91, got his nickname when assistant football coach Heartley “Hunk” Anderson replaced Knute Rockne at the University of Notre Dame, and friends started calling him Hunk. On a date, Mr. Anderson introduced Mrs. Anderson to a friend as “Murma”—what her parents called her—and someone at the end of the…

…entire wall next to the front door of the Anderson Collection. It also appears in other playful formats, behind and next to photographs, and mounted alone on a gallery wall as a large format poster crumpled around the edges, as if someone had rescued it from a rubbish bin. Throughout Syjuco’s exhibit White Balance/Color Cast, the eye is repeatedly drawn to it. In a recent phone interview, Syjuco explains that color bars like these are edited out…

…p painting on canvas. Jason Linetzky, who acted as the manager for the private collection while it was housed at the family’s Bay Area ranch home, will serve as the Anderson Collection’s director. The Collection is located at 314 Lomita Drive, and Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects designed the 33,000-square-foot, $36 million building. Ennead Architects was also responsible for designing the 1998 Cantor Arts Center addition, the law school’s Wil…

…l’s “1957-J No. 1,” a 12-foot-long abstract painting that appears expansive as a movie screen. The building’s designer, Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects, has made the stairway taper as it rises, exaggerating its length optically and enhancing the Still’s illusional effect of opening wide in a long view and folding in on itself when seen up close. No one has engineered this experience, yet it wonderfully sets a pat…

A&E Digest: Student scholarships, fashion for a cause and more This week’s A&E news by Elizabeth Schwyzer / Palo Alto Weekly Twenty-seven student artists from Santa Clara and San Mateo counties have been awarded scholarships for by the Community School of Music and Arts. Photo courtesy of CSMA. This week, students win art scholarships, a film on feminist art screens at Stanford and international fashion designers sell their goods…

…the Anderson Collection at Stanford University (easily reachable by public transport from San Francisco or from the airport) – it is very much worth the trip. The Anderson Collection is very much focused on American Art of the 20thCentury in general, with a specific concentration on West Coast art movements and artists. It has neither the ambition to be exhaustively encyclopedic or to go narrowly deep on one artist in particular. What I found pa…

…he painting will be on view when the museum reopens on Sept. 22, 2021. “I am extremely grateful to Keith Jantzen and Scott Beth for their generous gift to the Anderson Collection,” said Jason Linetzky, director of the museum. “The addition of this work focuses renewed attention on David Park, a compassionate artist and educator whose inventive spirit and camaraderie with artists forever transformed the landscape of figurative painting in Californ…

…t collection. I was in the middle of a room surrounded by large canvases of colors. One of them, covering almost the entire wall, was simply a large pattern of burgundy, black and white. However, there was something very calming about looking at it. I used to criticize such artworks a lot, not understanding the value placed on artists like Rothko. But seeing such pieces in a museum in front of you feels very different than looking at images onlin…