Celebrating the deYoung Museum - Moraga Library Exhibit

Moraga Library Photography Exhibit by Thomas Pappas, November 1 - 30th, 2014

Art in public spaces is always a special treat because of the joy it brings to so many people! For me, finding the art, then creating an image of the artist’s work that stands out in its surroundings is a challenge, so I am always looking for an opportunity to capture such images.

The deYoung Museum is a beautiful copper-clad structure set in beautiful surroundings in Golden Gate Park. It is a hard structure to photograph because of the twisting 144 foot observation tower, never quite seeming to be level! As befitting such a fine museum, the surrounding gardens and outdoor sculpture are unique, and provide a wonderful experience on their own. This show is focused on the gardens and free spaces in the museum.

A visit to the deYoung usually means a walk through one of the nearby neighborhoods to the park. The photos of the succulent plants were captured while strolling on upper Ashbury Street, with the exception of one, which was taken in Moraga on Rimer Drive.

Finally, I have included some photographs of the beautiful Heart Sculptures that can be seen around San Francisco. Sponsored by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, more than one hundred have been created. The first artist to create a Heart was singer and artist Tony Bennett. Entitled “I left my Heart...” it is permanently displayed on the northwest corner of Union Square. Many of the sculptures photographed during this project have since been removed, with many of them going to private spaces where they can no longer be enjoyed by the public.

About the Artist

Thomas Pappas is an eclectic photographer with interest in street, landscape, portrait and nature photography. Working with both digital and film, his work encompasses many locations including the Western United States, San Francisco, New York, the Bahamas, and Greece. He has also photographed many local events including the CAIFF Film Festival, Heritage Bank Tennis Championships, and Campolindo and Miramonte sports.

Technical Information 
All of the prints on display were made digitally, using Canson Baryta Photographique archival paper and Canon Lucia Inks.

This article and photo sourced from:  http://patch.com/california/lamorinda/celebrating-deyoung-museum-moraga-library-exhibit-0 

de Young: Modernism from the National Gallery of Art

Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection

June 7, 2014 – October 12, 2014

 

Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection brings paintings by the great masters of the post-war world to San Francisco. The de Young will feature nearly 50 works by Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Frank Stella, among others. The de Young is the exclusive venue for this exhibition, the first of the Meyerhoff Collection outside the greater Washington, DC, and Baltimore metro areas.
This exhibition of modern and contemporary art will be organized into three generational groupings, allowing for a remarkable overview of American art from the end of World War II through the end of the century. Highlights of the exhibition include Stella’s Flin Flon IV (1969), Johns’ Perilous Night (1982), and Lichtenstein’s Painting with Statue of Liberty (1983).
The centerpiece of the exhibition is Barnett Newman’s The Stations of the Cross (1958–66). This series of 15 paintings, widely considered to be the artist’s most important work, will be displayed as the artist intended—shown together within a discrete, chapel-like gallery devoted solely to the series.
Beginning in 1985, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff began donating major works of post-war art to the National Gallery, and in 1987 signed an agreement with the National Gallery of Art for the eventual donation of their entire collection to the Gallery.

Ticket Information

Adults $21–$24, seniors 65+ $18–$21, students with current ID $17–$20, youths 6–17 $11–$14, members and children 5 and under free. Prices subject to change without notice.

Save $1 per ticket with advance online purchase. Prices in your online shopping cart reflect the automatic savings.

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Groups of 10 or more have access to priority booking and private tours. Contact the group sales office at groupsales@famsf.org or 415.750.3620.

Description and Photos Sourced From:   http://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/modernism-national-gallery-art-robert-jane-meyerhoff-collection

Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection

Exhibit:  June 7, 2014 – October 12, 2014

Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection brings paintings by the great masters of the post-war world to San Francisco. The de Young will feature nearly 50 works by Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Frank Stella, among others. The de Young is the exclusive venue for this exhibition, the first of the Meyerhoff Collection outside the greater Washington, DC, and Baltimore metro areas.

This exhibition of modern and contemporary art will be organized into three generational groupings, allowing for a remarkable overview of American art from the end of World War II through the end of the century. Highlights of the exhibition include Stella’s Flin Flon IV (1969), Johns’ Perilous Night (1982), and Lichtenstein’s Painting with Statue of Liberty (1983).

The centerpiece of the exhibition is Barnett Newman’s The Stations of the Cross (1958–66). This series of 15 paintings, widely considered to be the artist’s most important work, will be displayed as the artist intended—shown together within a discrete, chapel-like gallery devoted solely to the series.

Beginning in 1985, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff began donating major works of post-war art to the National Gallery, and in 1987 signed an agreement with the National Gallery of Art for the eventual donation of their entire collection to the Gallery. Today, the Meyerhoff Collection stands as the largest donation ever to the National Gallery after Andrew Mellon’s original gift in 1937.

Ticket Information

Adults $21–$24, seniors 65+ $18–$21, students with current ID $17–$20, youths 6–17 $11–$14, members and children 5 and under free. Prices subject to change without notice.

Save $1 per ticket with advance online purchase. Prices in your online shopping cart reflect the automatic savings.

ORDER TICKETS

Groups of 10 or more have access to priority booking and private tours. Contact the group sales office atgroupsales@famsf.org or 415.750.3620.

Article and Photos Sourced from:  https://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/modernism-national-gallery-art-robert-jane-meyerhoff-collection 

Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe

Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George $25

de Young Museum

 

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George, organized by The Hyde Collection in association with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. The exhibition, which begins its exclusive West Coast presentation at the de Young on February 15, 2014, is the first major exhibition to examine the body of work that Georgia O’Keeffe (1887‒1986) created based on her experiences at Lake George. From 1918 until 1934, O’Keeffe lived for part of each year at the family estate of Alfred Stieglitz (1864‒1946) on Lake George in New York’s Adirondack Park. The 36-acre property, situated near Lake George Village along the western shoreline, served as a rural retreat for the artist, providing the subject matter for much of her art, and inspiring the spirit of place that she continually evoked in her works from this era, an essential aspect to her evolving modern approach to depicting the natural world. During this highly productive period she created more than 200 paintings on canvas and paper in addition to sketches and pastels, making her Lake George years among the most prolific and transformative of her seven-decade career. This period coincided with O’Keeffe’s first critical and popular acclaim as a professional artist, helped define her personal style, and affirmed her passion for natural subject matter prior to her well-known move to the Southwest.
Colin B. Bailey, director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco noted, “It is especially gratifying to host this pioneering and scholarly exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Lake George‒period works, as the artist’s Petunias [1925], featured in the exhibition, is a highlight of our renowned collection of modernist works by artists associated with the Stieglitz circle.”
This landmark survey will explore O’Keeffe’s full range of work inspired by Lake George through a selection of 53 works from private collections and major museums across the country, including the Seattle Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, High Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art (New York), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Walker Art Center, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The selection includes magnified botanical compositions of the flowers and vegetables that O’Keeffe grew in her garden at Lake George, a group of still lifes of the apples that she picked on the Steiglitz property, and paintings showing the variety of trees and leaves that grew in abundance there, with which she became fascinated. Architectural subjects also emerge as a theme within the exhibition, as do panoramic landscape paintings and bold, color-filled abstractions that often relate visually to the subjects that O’Keeffe was exploring during this period. Regardless of theme, O’Keeffe’s varied works investigate spatial ambiguity and dichotomies of interior and exterior, nature and the built environment, and absence and presence. They often are interpreted as deeply personal and autobiographical expressions.
Like many artists of her generation and earlier ones as well, O’Keeffe painted throughout the summer and fall and transported canvases back to her New York studio for completion and exhibition in the spring. At Lake George, O’Keeffe reveled in the discovery of new subject matter and found respite in the verdant setting, enjoying long walks through the wooded hillsides and hikes up Prospect Mountain to take in the spectacular view of the lake’s mountain-rimmed waters.
“In addition to her pioneering abstractions, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Lake George‒period paintings resurrected and revitalized subjects such as landscape, still life and architecture that had been considered retardataire—if not reactionary—by avant-garde critics, curators, and collectors,” noted Timothy Anglin Burgard, the Ednah Root Curator in Charge of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. “O’Keeffe’s platonic ideal of nature, perfected at Lake George, helped to promote a respect and reverence for the natural world that resonates with contemporary viewers—especially in California, home to Yosemite Valley, the Sierra Nevada, and Lake Tahoe.”
In 1923 O’Keeffe enthusiastically wrote to her friend Sherwood Anderson in a letter, “I wish you could see the place here—there is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees—Sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces—it seems so perfect.” What remains consistent throughout O’Keeffe’s career is her allegiance to organic nature, the driving force that infuses living things, the essence of which is celebrated in Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George.



Article and Photos Borrowed From:  http://www.thebolditalic.com/events/6859-modern-nature-georgia-okeeffe-and-lake-george