Please note: access to the de Young may be impacted 7/20 due to the AIDS Walk. Allow extra time to arrive.
Open today 9:30 am – 5:15 pm
Both John Singleton Copley and his patrons wanted to present themselves in a certain way through portraiture.
By Lauren Palmor
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
Hiram Powers’s (American, 1805 – 1873) full-length nude Greek Slave was the most famous sculpture of the 19th century.
By Janna Keegan
Diebenkorn used an aerial perspective in many of his abstract and representational works.
By Emma Acker
Chiura Obata was one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most influential artists.
Rainbow Sign was located at 2640 Grove Street in Berkeley and was active between 1971–1977.
In 1970, ten billboards went up across Oakland and Berkeley. The artist never explicitly stated their meaning.
Paintings conservator Tricia O’Regan outlines her process for preparing The Hero for its first public display in decades.
By Tricia O’Regan
In 1968 – 1969, the exhibition A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers drew 100,000 visitors.
The Museums have acquired a monumental painting from Steir's “Waterfall” series.
