deYoung Articles
Jan 31, 2010
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present an exhibition of 250 ancient glass objects of extraordinary beauty. These vessels found in...
Jan 31, 2010
The 12th annual Youth Arts Festival and Exhibition showcases the visual and performing arts by San Francisco students in grades K-12. The celebration includes a student art exhibition in the de Young Museum, and choral,...
Jan 31, 2010
Inventing the Middle WestRegionalist painting had three major exponents: Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry. With these two artists Curry led the movement to create and celebrate what he felt was an...
Jan 31, 2010
The Fine Arts Museums are proud to celebrate the outstanding contributions to the museums by George Hopper Fitch, an ardent collector of works on paper and longtime trustee of the Fine Arts Museums, by exhibiting...
Jan 31, 2010
The elegant vision of British still-life photographer Charles Jones (1866Š1959), whose work was only recently discovered, is finally shared with audiences through this exhibition of 59 gold-toned gelatin silver prints. A...
Jan 31, 2010
A lively and engaging exhibition of art in all media, A Feast for the Eye celebrates and explores the vast subject of food. Still lifes, genre scenes, cartoons, photographs, and decorative arts illustrate both the serious...
Jan 31, 2010
This self-taught photographer created hundreds of glass-plate negatives that document the exotic sights and rich street life of Chinatown before its devastation in the 1906 earthquake and fire. Thirty of these works are...
Jan 31, 2010
Interventions by Fred WilsonThe internationally-exhibited New York artist Fred Wilson is renowned for his museum "interventions," often surprising and controversial additions and alterations to conventional museum...
Jan 31, 2010
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Visual Arts Exhibitions at the de Young MuseumAs part of the collaboration between the Fine Arts Museums and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, YBC will present Out of BoundsŃthree...
Jan 31, 2010
Effets de NeigeThis exhibition features 50 to 60 impressionist winter landscapes by Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin, Gustave Caillebotte, and Pierre-August...