…number of works that represent movements in California art, including Bay Area Figurative and Light & Space. The collection was assembled over the course of 50 years by Bay Area collectors Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson along with their daughter Patricia Anderson Pence. The Andersons, originally from the East Coast, met at college in upstate New York and were married in 1950. They began collecting art in the early 1960s after a trip to P…

…ng and airline travel not so fun anymore, it might be a good time to consider cultural offerings closer to home. The Stanford campus is home to two world-class museums and if COVID-19 has kept you from visiting them recently, you may be pleasantly surprised at the varied — and thought-provoking — exhibitions currently on view. A recent visit to both the Anderson Collection and the Cantor Arts Center revealed both old favorites and new acquisition…

…e Sculpture kirkmcguire.com Amazing Bronze Sculptures & Tables LTD ­ Fine Art & Furnishings On Sept. 21, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University will open its doors to the public for the first time. The new campus gallery will permanently house highlights of the couple’s postwar American art – considered one of the most important collections of its kind in the world – that have been transferred from the Andersons&…

…e peace with abstraction, but he had to do it by putting human presence, in all its beautiful imperfection, into the forefront once again.” pollock ©2014 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Andersons purchased Lucifer in 1970. Former collection intern Neal Benezra, MA ’81, PhD ’83, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, told the L.A. Times: “What is most extraordinary in t…

…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…

Over the past decade, many university leaders and donors have come to the same conclusion: investment in the arts is essential to building a competitive institution in an increasingly global world. This year, around half a dozen new museums and arts centres are opening on campuses across the country, from Columbia University in New York to Rice University in Texas. They come on the heels of recently completed projects at Stanford in California,…

…worth hundreds of millions of 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 Yor…

…y “Hunk” Anderson, though he was no relation. A tall man with inquisitive blue eyes, he still sports the period crew cut. His father had emigrated from Sweden in 1912 and worked as a gaffer at Corning Glass. His mother was Norwegian. Los Angeles Times photographers document the year in arts and culture. After serving as a U.S. Army private first class in World War II, Anderson attended Hobart College in upstate New York on the…

…en 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 celebrity, too. The global art gallery empire, based in New York with four galleries there, maintains outposts in London, Paris, Beijing and Hong Kong….

…d opponents of Hunk and Putter. After the match, Stella invited the Andersons to a showing of his work, in 1981. They flew to New York and were driven to Stella’s studio in Lower Manhattan by Leo Castelli, the famed art dealer, who represented Stella. Also there for the showing were Donald Marron, a New York financier-collector, and Philip Johnson, founder of the architecture department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The rules, as dicta…

…ess release at the time indicating that a transition team “will work closely with stakeholders from across the campus and community to situate the museum for ongoing success.” Mitchell and Brezinski discussed their new roles and goals in recent email interviews with this news organization. When asked if the Cantor is emulating the administration model of numerous large museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in ha…

BY ROBIN WANDER Five years ago, on Sept. 21, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University opened to the public. What was true then is true now: The remarkable collection that is anchored in the New York School and Bay Area Figuration, and incorporates key modern and contemporary artists collected in depth and across media, is a breathtaking survey of post-World War II American art. Jason Linetzky, director of the Anderson Collection at Stanfo…

…To date, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University has been seen by nearly 250,000 visitors. Every work in the museum is viewable online and the collection has grown through gifts from other members of the community. Head and hands collection Harry W. Anderson was born in Corning, New York. His father and mother immigrated to the United States from Sweden and Norway, respectively. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he atten…

…ng lands and bodies haunted by colonial violence. Kiyan Williams: Reaching Towards Warming Climes is on view at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University until December 5; Williams’s work can also be seen in the group exhibition How to Cook a Wolf at the Center for Books Arts in New York City until December 11. Louis Bury is the author of Exercises in Criticism (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015) and is Associate Professor of English at Hostos Com…

…artists housed in an award-winning building designed by Ennead Architects in Stanford’s arts district opened to the public in 2014 as the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Some of the foremost examples of post-World War II American art were part of the Anderson gift, which remains one of the most valuable and significant to be donated to any university. The collection is anchored in New York School and Bay Area Figuration, and incorpor…