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Acquisition: Mike Henderson’s “The Scream”

The Scream (1966), a diptych by Mike Henderson is now part of the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

By Timothy Anglin Burgard

Article American art Acquisitions
An Abolitionist Symbol: Hiram Powers’s “Greek Slave”

Hiram Powers’s (American, 1805 – 1873) full-length nude Greek Slave was the most famous sculpture of the 19th century.

By Timothy Anglin Burgard

Article American art
Richard Mayhew’s “Rhapsody”

By Janna Keegan

Article American art
Diebenkorn and the Aerial View

Diebenkorn used an aerial perspective in many of his abstract and representational works.

By Emma Acker

Article American art
“Art is the Flower”: Floral Stories from the American Art Collection

By Lauren Palmor

Article American art
Chiura Obata and The Restorative Powers of “Great Nature”

Chiura Obata was one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most influential artists.

By Timothy Anglin Burgard

Article American art
Bay Area Connections + Rainbow Sign

Rainbow Sign was located at 2640 Grove Street in Berkeley and was active between 1971–1977.

By Lauren Palmor

Article American art
Who Is Cleveland Bellow?

In 1970, ten billboards went up across Oakland and Berkeley. The artist never explicitly stated their meaning.

Article American art
Conserving Phillip Lindsay Mason’s “The Hero”

Paintings conservator Tricia O’Regan outlines her process for preparing The Hero for its first public display in decades.

By Tricia O’Regan

Article Conservation American art
The Black Panthers at the de Young Museum, 1968 – 1969

In 1968 – 1969, the exhibition A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers drew 100,000 visitors.

By Lauren Palmor

Article American art
The Nature of Nature: Pat Steir’s “Black and White One-Stroke Waterfall”

The Museums have acquired a monumental painting from Steir's “Waterfall” series.

By Timothy Anglin Burgard

Article American art Acquisitions
Paint Like a Precisionist: Student Artists at the Museum

Eleventh-graders from Oakland School for the Arts created their own paintings inspired by Cult of the Machine.

Article American art Power Beauty

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