…alogue, titled A Family Affair, could just as easily have been called “East Meets West.” The concept of migrating ideas is why pride of place goes to Clyfford Still’s 9-by-12-foot painting 1957-J No. 1 (1957). Still is the link that unites the East and West Coasts. When he came to San Francisco to teach in the mid-1940s, he brought the gestural, painterly style of New York abstraction. His pupils transformed it in the 1950s into…

A project of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University Hosted by art historian and the associate director of ITALIC at Stanford, Kim Beil, the micro-video series “Up Close: One Painting Tours with Artists” focuses on a single object in the Anderson Collection, sparking dialogue with a guest artist. This project is made possible by a grant from Stanford Arts and the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Artist Rebekah Goldstein explor…

…8220;Cantor is using a similar model with the exception that we both closely align with one another in our areas of expertise. The advantage for this current arrangement is that both of us have a long tenure at Stanford/Cantor and understand its history.” Mitchell noted, “It has been very useful for us each to tap into our different spheres of experience to connect with staff and work toward institutional goals.” Both indicated…

…n the assemblage of marine debris surrounding the horse. And finally, I thought that the Wisch Family Gallery on the first floor of the Anderson Collection would be the perfect place to view this sculpture. Linetzky: For me, the announcement of the Doerr School presented an exciting opportunity to celebrate the founding of the new school through the presentation of contemporary works by artists who feel compelled to engage with and address pressi…

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…ies. She was the model for Makida III, a large, marble head with unseeing, absent or closed eyes. While her lips and nose are cleanly defined, there are concave, smoothed out spaces where the eyes and ears should be. Neri has applied green and pink paint to accentuate the marble’s natural veins. These washed-out splashes of color adorn her face as if she’s been marked with aboriginal tattoos. From the back, her hair is made into an im…

…nd Frank Stella  to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  The family’s ranch house will be a little less full of art, although a Calder mobile and others still take up residence there. And Hunk Anderson’s Cliff May-designed office complex will now be missing major artworks, but the Andersons are pleased their collection will be on public display in a dedicated building on the Stanford campus. “I think in order to enjoy art, you hav…

…pus: Al Elsen and Nathan Oliveira.” According to Linetzky, Elsen, who was a professor of art history, encouraged the Andersons to look at master works, to go to the Museum of Modern Art in New York and see examples by the likes of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Oliveira, a painter and Stanford instructor, “brought them into his studio and really showed them what it meant to create, to make a work of art,” says Linetzky. “And this was just eye-o…

…elling visitors where to start. “There is no pre-determined path for viewing the installation”, says the Director Jason Linetzky, “we sought to offer a more casual experience, one which reflects the way the Anderson family lived with these works at home. Here visitors have the opportunity to wander wherever their eyes pull them”. One also notes the absence of doors and closed rooms. It is one big gallery space fragmented b…

…bert Motherwell—to name a few. Even Putter’s childhood bedroom, which is still decorated with equestrian ribbons and an autograph book from the ’70s (the first page of which bears the signature “Clyfford Still”), has a good-size canvas by Hans Hoffmann. Indeed, when the Andersons bought their prized Pollock in 1970, they hung it over Putter’s bed, because, as Moo says, “we had an empty space on the wall.” When the art dealer André Emmerich came t…

…month, Stanford University will unveil one of the largest and most valuable gifts in its history, the blue-chip Anderson collection—121 mostly Abstract Expressionist works by 86 artists—including paintings by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Ellsworth Kelly, to name a few. There are also a number of works that represent movements in California art, including Bay Area Figurative and Light & Spa…

…ing the anticipation to build as you ascend. It’s rewarded by a 9-by-12-foot painting by Clyfford Still at the top. (The Andersons wanted to squeeze it into their home, but, as Olcott put it, it was already “jam-packed.”) Upstairs, there is no designated circulation route, allowing visitors to wander and follow what catches their interest. From various points, you can see across the double-height space and catch glimpses of works in other g…

Stanford Arts District museums offer plenty for a world-class cultural staycation Old favorites, new acquisitions offer something for every age, taste AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Print Share to More by Sheryl Nonnenberg / Contributor With gas prices soaring and airline travel not so fun anymore, it might be a good time to consider cultural offerings closer to home. The Stanford campus is h…

…mposition. Color-calibration charts show up throughout the exhibition: as objects, they have a pop appeal, grids of cyan and yellow and magenta. Used to check and adjust color, they center whiteness in our sense of what makes a picture correct or true. Rogue States, the first thing you see inside the museum, includes flags suspended from the ceiling in rows that turn the atrium into a hall of nations, except that these represent not actual countr…