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Getting it down on paper: A different aspect of the Anderson Collection on view

…d earlier than paintings found upstairs in the permanent collection. “These works give visitors a sense of where the artist came from and help to contextualize (i.e,, Guston) or provide a deeper look (i.e., Diebenkorn). In the case of Guston, where else can you find a 30-year cross-section of amazing works to help contextualize the two permanent collection works (dated 1962 and 1977)?” When asked if he thought it was important for vie…

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

…d University, a museum showing the core of their collection. No cause was given. She was 92. The Andersons liked to portray themselves as plain folk to befit their shared nickname “Hunk and Moo,” but they were sophisticated and timely in their collecting of artworks that were often abstract and beyond comprehension. They were also generous in both loaning and donating pieces to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Fine Arts Museums of S…

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

…Anderson Collection. “They were really the leaders of the Abstract Expressionists in New York.” The announcement comes less than a week after the death of Mary Margaret “Moo” Anderson, who has been the main benefactor of the collection since the death of her husband, Harry W. “Hunk” Anderson, in February 2018. Moo Anderson had committed the gifts months ago, in honor of the fifth anniversary of the Anderson Collection. She had been scheduled to a…

Stanford art museums, Frost Amphitheater begin to reopen

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Mirroring Heaven on Earth: Stellar Axis South and 90 Degrees North

…esy: Lita Albuquerque Her conceptual language manipulates spaces for introspection and contemplation enabling us to gain a more panoramic perspective on our existence. By intervening in the expansive landscapes whilst regarding the immensity of cosmos she aimed to deliberate the dimensionality of spacetime[2] where there is more than meets the eye. “I am interested in change of scale: how the observer affects the object of observation; spac…