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FRAME|WORK: "Two Women and a Child" by Diego Rivera

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on December 7, 2011

FRAME|WORK is a weekly blog series that highlights an artwork in the Museums' permanent collections. Tomorrow is the 125th anniversary of Diego Rivera’s birth, so this week we feature his iconic Two Women and a Child, which is currently on display at the de Young.

Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886–1957). Two Women and a Child, 1926. Oil on canvas. Gift of Albert M. Bender to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. 1926.122. © 2011 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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FRAME|WORK: Halved Cabbage by Edward Weston

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on November 23, 2011

Tomorrow, most of us will sit down with family and friends to enjoy a cornucopia of Thanksgiving comestibles that will leave many satiated to the point of sickness. In preparation, this week’s FRAME|WORK takes a closer look at Edward Weston’s Halved Cabbage, whose beauty and detail give new meaning to the concept of good taste.

Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958). Halved Cabbage, 1930. Gelatin silver print. Museum Purchase, M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum, 1931. 53942

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FRAME|WORK: At the Milliner's by Édouard Manet

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on November 9, 2011

FRAME|WORK is a weekly blog series that highlights an artwork in the Museums' permanent collections. This week we feature an intimate picture by Édouard Manet currently on display in Gallery 19 at the Legion of Honor.

Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883). At the Milliner's (La modiste), 1881. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection. 1957.3

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FRAME|WORK: Calavera de Don Folias y el Negrito by Jose Guadalupe Posada

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on November 2, 2011

FRAME|WORK is a weekly blog series that highlights an artwork in the Museums' permanent collections. Today we honor the culture of Día de los Muertos with a print from master Mexican graphic artist José Guadalupe Posada. This artwork is currently not on display, so we hope you enjoy this exclusive virtiual viewing.

José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1852–1913). Calavera de Don Folias y el Negrito (Calavera of the Lord of the Follies and the Black Man), 1930. Relief etching on zinc. Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. 1963.30.15708

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FRAME|WORK: A Mask Fan from Eighteenth-Century England

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on October 26, 2011

FRAME|WORK is a weekly blog series that highlights an artwork in the Museums' permanent collections. This week, in a joint celebration of Halloween and the imminent opening of Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power, we feature an extraordinary mask fan from the department of Textile Arts.

Mask fan, England, 1740–1750. Opaque watercolor on vellum; ivory sticks. Gift of Susanne King Morrison in memory of Elizabeth Brant King. 1980.66

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FRAME|WORK: A Māori cloak

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on October 19, 2011

FRAME|WORK is a weekly blog series that highlights an artwork in the Museums' permanent collections. This week, we feature an exemplary Māori cloak from the Museums’ inaugural collections (currently on display at the de Young) in honor of the October Artist-in-Residence, Māori weaver Glenda Joyce Hape.

Chief's cloak, 19th century. Polynesia, New Zealand, North Island, West Coast, Wanganui region, Māori people. Flax, kiwi feathers, and commercial wool. Gift of M. H. de Young. 41520

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