…s the same bold, black, gestural strokes that can be seen in his paintings. Richard Diebenkorn’s carefully composed use of geometry and muted, cool colors relates directly to the evocative “Ocean Park #60” at the top of the steps. On the other hand, Ad Rhinehart’s “Untitled”, a gouache on paper, is a complete surprise. Unlike “Abstract Painting, 1966,” which consists of subtle gradations of black to…

…and deepen our sense of belonging to the universal. Lita Albuquerque, NAJMA (She Placed One Thousand Suns Over the Transparent Overlays of Space), Desert X AlUla, Saudi Arabia, January 31, 2020. Photo Courtesy: Lance Gerber; Courtesy of Lita Albuquerque and Kohn Gallery. On December 22, 2006, at the Summer Solstice, the group of scientists and technicians from the McMurdo research station participated in the performance act rounding off…

…rich visual display. The feast proved moveable and equally rich when the paintings were relocated to the campus over the summer and served to the Stanford community and the public in a series of courses over the last week. Opening week of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University started with a media preview, followed by the building dedication, then a dinner for museum members and donors, capped by a members opening on Saturday and the pub…

…rt collectors, Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson—or “Hunk” and “Moo” as the couple are commonly known—have resided locally for over 50 years. This particular collection forms the bulk of their contemporary works, many of which were located in their Atherton home. Originally from back east, the two were never Stanford students, but after half a century of developing relationships, the Andersons have been integral componen…

…the early 1960s, he was identified with Pop Art—a connection he was quick to disclaim. Yet his own background in commercial art affect the way he handled subject matter. In Candy Counter, he heightens the intensity of the color so that orange and green candies seem to vibrate with an improbable brightness, suggesting the chromatic enhancement common in advertising art. The bands of complimentary colors edging the class and candy create a flicker…

…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 attended Hobart College in G…

By Anna Koster For The Daily 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…

Full House What does a family with one of the most spectacular private collections of postwar American art do when they run out of space? Give some of it away. June 12, 2014 9:30 AM | by Pilar Viladas There are people who live with art, and then there are Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson. Better known as Hunk and Moo, the Andersons, who are 91 and 87, respectively, share their comfortable, unpretentious ranch house in Atherton, California,…

…rs of the collection and arranged for loans to other institutions. Some were lucky enough to accompany Hunk on a buying trip in New York City, seeing firsthand the operations of the commercial art world. These were invaluable additions to a student’s education and résumé. Some of our doctoral students, including Neal Benezra, MA ’81, PhD ’83, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, worked with the collection for seve…

…891, it is remarkable to realize that Stanford has never been home to a major art collection. The closest it has come is the group of 200 sculptures by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), mostly contemporary bronze casts, housed at the Cantor Arts Center adjacent to the new museum. Overnight, the Anderson Collection catapults Stanford into the top tier of American university museum art collections. “Lucifer” joins another 83 paintings and 37 s…

…uilding, aiming to recreate their own intimate experience of the art. Stanford tapped Ennead, which had recently completed a concert hall on campus, to design the new exhibition space. “The premise of the whole endeavor was to make it about the art and only about the art,” says Richard Olcott, design principal at the firm. Ennead’s first commission at Stanford, more than 15 years ago, was a self-effacing addition to the neighboring Cantor A…

…Art, which opens in 2016. The monumental sculpture measures 67 feet long, 42 feet wide and 13 feet high, and is composed of contoured steel and weighs more than 200 tons. It is considered one of Serra’s greatest achievements. Transporting it to Stanford required a dozen wide-body flatbed trucks and specialists in the rigging of objects on this massive scale. The deinstallation process promises to be equally complex. The best views will be…

…gnature style — featuring the motif of rectangular forms floating in a field of color — Rothko’s “Pink and White over Red” consists of a white, rectangular spot of paint overlaid on an expansive red background. The piece’s unconventional composition attests to Rothko’s mentality of free self-expression, whereas his bold color choice holds traces of the 1920s Surrealist movement that sought to reconcile dreams and reality. 5. “Lucifer” by Jackson…

…n won’t say why Pace picked Palo Alto over more obvious choices like San Francisco or Los Angeles. But the local community is happy about the choice. “People in the art world are so excited that Pace would choose to come to Silicon Valley,” says Cathy Kimball, executive director of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Pace started on the Peninsula with a “pop-up” gallery in Menlo Park in a converted Tesla showroom, slated for demolition so…

BY ROBIN WANDER The Anderson Collection at Stanford University accepted 13 gifts of art into the museum’s permanent collection this academic year. These are the first acquisitions since the museum opened in 2014, originally as a non-collecting institution, and the first gifts not from the Anderson family. The new direction is a welcome one for students, faculty, the Stanford community, the Anderson family and beyond. Anderson Collection patr…

he Anderson Collection at Stanford University accepted 13 gifts of art into the museum’s permanent collection this past year. These are the first acquisitions since the museum opened in 2014, and the first gifts not from the Anderson family. New to the collection is Bill Jensen’s watercolor and gouache Study for Denial, 1985-86; three sculptural works and eight works on paper ranging from 1958 to 1997 by Manuel Neri; and Mary Weatherford’s black…

Harry W. Anderson, a flat-topped dorm food distributor who, on the side, built one of the most valuable collections of American postwar art in private hands, has died. Anderson died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes Wednesday at his home on the mid-Peninsula, said his daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson “Putter” Pence. He was 95. A refreshingly unpretentious man in an art world known for its pomposity, Anderson was always called “Hunk” and…