Diebenkorn in New Mexico: 1950–1952
Diebenkorn in New Mexico: 1950–1952 brings together approximately fifty paintings and drawings from this period for the first time.
American Art
John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
John Wood (born 1922) has consistently challenged traditional photography, often incorporating painting, drawing, and collage as well as cliché verre, solarization, and offset lithography.
ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND: Mission School
In the early 1990s, many aspiring San Francisco artists lived and worked in the Mission District, a gritty, low-rent area of the city. Among them were San Francisco Art Institute undergraduates Alicia McCarthy, Barry McGee, and Ruby Neri, along with friends Chris Johanson and Margaret Kilgallen.
Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934–2000
Art for Every Home explores how Associated American Artists (AAA) dramatically expanded the market for art in the United States. In 1934 Reeves Lewenthal, an enterprising businessman, convened a group of artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood, to produce prints for him to sell to the public at affordable prices. Tracing AAA’s trajectory from its beginnings as a renowned print publisher, to its expansion into advertising and interior decor, to its eventual demise in 2000, the first-ever comprehensive survey to focus on this remarkable company illuminates how it inspired and cultivated American collectors for more than sixty years.
An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle
One of the most productive artistic couples of the twentieth century, artist Jess (1923–2004) and poet Robert Duncan (1919–1988) established a domestic space that fostered their creativity and inspired a generation of San Francisco Bay Area artists and poets. The couple nearly filled all four floors of their rambling Victorian house with libraries—mythology and reference […]
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
One of the most visionary writers of his generation,Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was also a photographer.
Multiple Identities: Portraits from the New York University Art Collection
Like a good conversation, it takes two to make a portrait. Something special arises when artists depict their sitters or, in the case of self-portraits, themselves. Many times, however, portraits initially are judged by their ability to capture and evoke a sitter’s likeness. Yet the mirroring capacity of portraiture constitutes just one facet of its […]