…ng family resemblance in Kline’s similarly choppy 1952 painted composition “Figure 8.” Neither the collectors nor the curators suggest that the later work was made – or acquired – with such a linkage in mind. But the creative pursuits of art making – and of collecting, done right – generate such telling patterns. Another occurs in a nearby corner space where a cruciform black-on-black square “Abstra…

…ord so that scholars are able to benefit from the same educational material as the family. Some are annotated by the Andersons or signed by authors or artists. The printed materials, housed in the Denning Family Resource Center at the museum, help fulfill the educational mission of the Anderson Collection and has become a vital library and teaching space within the museum. But for Moo, nothing compared to seeing artwork in person. “It’s good to s…

…houses 121 works of art by 86 artists, a gift to the university from the Andersons (affectionately known as Hunk and Moo) and their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence. The history of their collecting is by now the stuff of legend: After a trip to Europe in the 1960s, Hunk and Moo decided to educate themselves about art in order to build a collection. They sought out the best examples by the most noteworthy artists available, and had the good…

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…

…s—and still am—the intimate, close-quarters abundance of the Andersons’ home struck me then as a higher-end form of pack-rattery. Ever since, I’ve wondered what it would be like to live day in, day out with a Rothko. I still do; really, I can’t imagine a more sublime aesthetic experience. (If anyone reading this has ever owned a Rothko and gotten sick of it, please don’t tell me.) The new two-story museum, with its big, clean, white, sunlit space…

…not fully realized and installed until after his death. In a joint statement by the Andersons in 2011 regarding their intention to give Stanford a significant portion of their prized art collection, they said: “Throughout our adult lives, we have always been closely associated with colleges and universities, and in making this gift to Stanford we anticipate the students, the public and the entire art community will have the opportunity to fully…

Showcases for Art in Silicon Valley At Stanford University, an Arts District Grows By JORI FINKEL NOV. 13, 2014 PALO ALTO, Calif. — The birthplace of Yahoo and Google, Stanford University is now ramping up and showing off its cultural resources. Construction of a $235 million arts district near Palm Drive, the grand tree-lined campus entrance, is well underway here. Last year, the $112 million Bing Concert Hall opened. This year came th…

…aily News Pushing boundaries has been the life work of Robert Irwin. His six-decade exploration of perception as the fundamental issue of art has expanded ideas of what art can be and can do. Irwin will speak about his work on March 10 at Stanford’s Cemex Auditorium. Irwin, born in 1928, in Long Beach, started as a painter in the 1950s with an abstract expressionist style, but quickly began removing all that was not essential. This resulted…

…people have visited the museum each year since its opening, drawn in by the Ennead Architects-designed building and the opportunity to see top-tier examples of art by luminaries such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn. The challenge to this and other single-donor museums, however, is how to keep the momentum going once visitors have seen the permanent collection. “The collection is not fixed to the initi…

…a favorite of mine), Ed Ruscha and Terry Winters among others. Upstairs on the second level were selections from the Anderson collection organized along such lines as Abstract Expressionism, Bay Area Abstraction, Light and Space, and Contemporary Painting. Because the collection is well edited and the installation well-chosen the visitor does not feel rushed to see all the paintings. There is plenty of time to appreciate some of the gorgeous work…

…, creative programming and academic studies, and a place to engage physically and emotionally with its paintings and sculptures. “They moved through the space and they really made this space something that I had hoped it could be, but wasn’t sure how it would be,” he said. Linetzky encouraged faculty members to think about ways to collaborate with the Anderson Collection and create new programs. The full minutes of the Feb. 5 me…