The American art collection assembled by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd during the 1960s and 1970s constitutes one of the great private collections of historic American painting. This book examines the collection in depth, focusing on 140 works donated to The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in the years since 1979. The works reproduced include examples from America's foremost realist masters. Among them are portraits by John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale; landscapes by Thomas Cole, Frederic E. Church, and Martin Johnson Heade; George Caleb Bingham's extraordinary Boatmen on the Missouri; one of Edward Hick's most ambitious treatments of The Peaceable Kingdom; watercolors, drawings, and an early Civil War oil by Winslow Homer; and works by Eastman Johnson, Thomas Anshutz, John Frederick Peto, Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler, and Andrew Wyeth. Each work is reproduced here in full color. The accompanying texts, comprised of extracts from contemporary accounts by artists, critics, patrons, and sitters, are lively and illuminating guides to understanding each work's history and significance. A detailed history of ownership and public exhibition and a selected bibliography are also provided for each painting. In many cases, this is the first time these important materials have appeared in print. The fascinating introductory essay examines the context of the Rockefellers' collecting, the directions they considered in forming the collection, their increasing sense of responsibility toward it, and factors they considered in its disposition.

The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Arts & Photography

Marc Simpson

Patricia A. Junker

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Describes the background of each work, and recounts Homer's experiences covering the war

Winslow Homer: Paintings of the Civil War

Book by Norton Simon Inc. Museum of Art.

Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine

Sally Mills

Andrea Henderson

History & Criticism

Patricia Junker

the de Young in the 21st century: a museum by Herzog & de Meuron

Betsky, Aaron

Schwarzer, Mitchell

Ketchum, Diana

with Corbett, Michael R.

This massive catalogue features fine reproductions and extensive individual discussions of nearly 120 canvases dating from the colonial period to the 1980s. With 268 illustrations, 243 in color.

Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young

Timothy Anglin Burgard

de Young: Inside and Out

MH De Young Memorial Museum

Legion of Honor: Inside and Out

Legion of Honor

In the 1950s American painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) took a dramatic turn away from his early work, exploring new vocabularies of both abstract and representational styles, which would come to be known as the artist’s “Berkeley period.” This era has long been recognized as one of the most interesting chapters in postwar American art, yielding many of Diebenkorn’s best-known works.Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 examines Diebenkorn’s process and output during this decisive period. Three original essays explore the artist’s evolving conceptions of abstraction and representation, emphasizing the interrelationships between the abstract paintings and drawings and related landscapes, figurative works, and still lifes, as well as Diebenkorn’s ongoing interest in aerial views.Featuring several significant works that have rarely been on view, as well as previously unpublished photographs from the Diebenkorn archives, this important publication is the first comprehensive look at this critical period.

Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966

Burgard, Timothy Anglin, Steven A. Nash and Emma Acker

Matisse and San Francisco

Bishop, Janet C.

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