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52-725: Still was born in 1904 in Grandin, North Dakota and spent his childhood in Spokane, Washington and Bow Island in southern Alberta, Canada . In 1925 he visited New York, briefly studying at the Art Students League . He attended Spokane University from 1926 to 1927 and returned in 1931 with a fellowship, graduating in 1933. That fall, he became a teaching fellow, then faculty member at Washington State College (now Washington State University ), where he obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1935 and taught until 1941. He spent

104-562: A competition to design the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's new structure in Downtown. Semifinalists included Charles Moore and Tadao Ando . The three finalists were to present site-specific design proposals later that year, but the museum canceled its architectural competition after only a month and went with the 45-year-old Botta. The new museum, planned in association with architects Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum ,

156-1022: A current list of all trustees. The Director of SFMOMA is Christopher Bedford , who was appointed in 2022. Previous Directors include Grace Morley (1935–1958), George D. Culler (1958–1965), Gerald Nordland (1966–1972), Henry T. Hopkins (1974–1986), John R. Lane (1987–1997), David A. Ross (1998–2001), and Neal Benezra (2002–2022). Jackson Pollock had his first museum show at SFMOMA, as did Clyfford Still and Arshile Gorky . The museum has in its collection important works by Ansel Adams , Joan Brown , Jerome Caja , Alexander Calder , Jay DeFeo , Richard Diebenkorn , Marcel Duchamp , Jess , Frida Kahlo , Anselm Kiefer , Ellsworth Kelly , Paul Klee , Dorothea Lange , Agnes Martin , Henri Matisse , Richard Mayhew , Jean Metzinger , Joan Mitchell , Chiura Obata , David Park , Jackson Pollock , Gerhard Richter , Diego Rivera , Mark Rothko , Richard Serra , Frank Stella , Clyfford Still , Wayne Thiebaud , Cy Twombly , and Andy Warhol , among others. Presentation of

208-478: A frame's edge." "I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man's 'time' limits him, it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is one of science, of mechanism, of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mechanism of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of a graphic homage." "How can we live and die and never know the difference?" Grandin, North Dakota Too Many Requests If you report this error to

260-489: A glass pavilion for dining. The larger sculpture garden affords views of the city skyline, dominated by the imposing art deco facade of the 140 New Montgomery skyscraper. In 2009, in response to significant growth in the museum's audiences and collections since the opening of the 1995 building, SFMOMA announced plans to expand. A shortlist released in May 2010 included four architecture firms officially under consideration for

312-496: A period of 100 years. In 2009, SFMOMA announced plans for a major expansion to accommodate its growing audiences, programs, and collections and to showcase the Doris and Donald Fisher collection of contemporary art. In 2010—the museum's 75th anniversary year—architecture firm Snøhetta was selected to design a major addition. SFMOMA closed to the public and broke ground for its expansion in May 2013, re-opening three years later. During

364-417: A variety of formations. Unlike Mark Rothko or Barnett Newman , who organized their colors in a relatively simple way (Rothko in the form of nebulous rectangles, Newman in thin lines on vast fields of color), Still's arrangements are less regular. In fact, he was one of the few painters who combined practices of Color Field paintings with that of Gestural, Action Paintings . His jagged flashes of color give

416-450: A wall relief by Claes Oldenburg . In January 1995 the museum opened its current location at 151 Third Street , adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens in the SOMA district. Mario Botta , a Swiss architect from Canton Ticino , designed the new US$ 60 million facility. SFMOMA made a number of important acquisitions under the direction of David A. Ross (1998–2001), who had been recruited from

468-533: The Betty Parsons gallery. Still returned to San Francisco, where he became a highly influential professor at the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute ), teaching there from 1946 to 1950. In 1950, he moved to New York City, where he lived most of the decade, the height of Abstract Expressionism, but also a time when he became increasingly critical of the art world. In

520-749: The Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1963 and at the Marlborough-Gerson gallery, New York, in 1969 to 1970. In 1975, a permanent installation of a group of his works opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . In 1979, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art organized the largest survey of Still's art to date and the largest presentation afforded by this institution to

572-591: The San Francisco Museum of Art . In 1947, Jermayne MacAgy, assistant director of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor , gave him a solo show there. The artist then declined all public exhibitions from 1952 to 1959. A first comprehensive Still retrospective took place at the Albright–Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, New York, in 1959. Later solo exhibitions of Still's paintings were presented by

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624-570: The Whitney Museum in New York, including works by Ellsworth Kelly , Robert Rauschenberg , René Magritte , and Piet Mondrian , as well as Marcel Duchamp ’s iconic Fountain (1917/1964). Those and acquisitions of works by Jasper Johns , Mark Rothko , Francis Bacon , Alexander Calder , Chuck Close and Frank Stella put the institution in the top ranks of American museums of modern art. After three years and $ 140 million building up

676-524: The Botta staircase was removed. The expanded building includes a large-scale vertical garden on the third floor, purported to be the biggest public living wall of native plants in San Francisco; the large, free-access Roberts Family Gallery on the ground-floor gallery facing Howard Street , with 25-foot (7.6 m) glass walls that place art on view to passersby; a double-height "white box" space on

728-684: The San Francisco Museum of Art (now San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ) in 1943. He taught at the Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), now Virginia Commonwealth University , from 1943 to 1945, then went to New York City. Mark Rothko, whom Still had met in California in 1943, introduced him to Peggy Guggenheim , who gave him a solo exhibition at her gallery, The Art of This Century Gallery , in early 1946. The following year Guggenheim closed her gallery and Still, along with Rothko and other Abstract Expressionists, joined

780-666: The United States at the time. The building achieved LEED Gold certification, with 15% energy-cost reduction, 30% water-use reduction, and 20% reduction in wastewater generation. The SFMOMA Board or Trustees is chaired by Robert J. Fisher ; its president is Diana Nelson. Artist Trustees are Tucker Nichols and Carrie Mae Weems . Past Artist Trustees, who normally serve for three years, include (beginning in 2006) Robert Bechtle Larry Sultan , Yves Béhar , Ed Ruscha , Rosana Castrillo Díaz , Jeff Wall , David Huffman , and Julie Mehretu . The SFMOMA web site maintains

832-601: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 216904625 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:51:04 GMT San Francisco Museum of Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( SFMOMA ) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco , California . SFMOMA

884-622: The artworks contained within the Clyfford Still Estate (roughly 825 paintings on canvas and 1575 works on paper – drawings and limited-edition fine-art prints). The Clyfford Still Museum , an independent nonprofit organization, opened under the directorship of Dean Sobel in November 2011. The museum also houses the complete Still archives of sketchbooks, journals, notebooks, the artist's library, and other archival materials, inherited upon Patricia Still's death in 2005. The building

936-481: The basis of the permanent collection. Bender donated more than 1,100 objects to SFMOMA during his lifetime and endowed the museum's first purchase fund. The museum began its second year with an exhibition of works by Henri Matisse . Also in 1936, the museum established its photography collection, becoming one of the first museums to recognize photography as an art form. In 1940, the museum held its first architecture exhibition, Telesis: Space for Living . The museum

988-675: The biennial SECA Art Award to honor San Francisco Bay Area artists. The museum rose to international prominence under director Henry T. Hopkins (1974–86), adding "Modern" to its name in 1975. In the 1980s, under Hopkins and his successor John R. Lane (1987–1997), SFMOMA established three new curatorial posts: curator of painting and sculpture, curator of architecture and design, and curator of media arts. The positions of director of education and director of photography were elevated to full curatorial roles. At this time SFMOMA took on an active special exhibitions program, both organizing and hosting traveling exhibitions, including major presentations of

1040-738: The closure, SFMOMA presented exhibitions and programs at off-site locations around the Bay Area as part of SFMOMA On the Go. In February 2011, the museum launched a Collections Campaign, announcing the acquisition of 195 works including paintings from Jackson Pollock , Willem de Kooning , Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Francis Bacon . Also under the auspices of the Collections Campaign, promised gifts of 473 photographs were announced in 2012, including 26 works by Diane Arbus and significant gifts of Japanese photography. In July 2020,

1092-530: The collection is overseen by curators for painting and sculpture; photography; architecture and design; and media arts. SFMOMA's website allows users to browse the museum's permanent collection. The SFMOMA Audio App provides information for select works, keyed by audio stop numbers. SFMOMA's Research Library was established in 1935 and contains extensive resources pertaining to modern and contemporary art, including books, periodicals, artists’ files, photographs and media collections. The Koret Education Center on

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1144-452: The collection, Ross resigned when a slow economy forced the museum to keep a tighter rein on its resources. The 2003 exhibition Treasures Of Modern Art: The Legacy Of Phyllis Wattis featured more than 80 of the many works donated by art patron Phyllis Wattis , who died in 2002, including works by Robert Rauschenberg , Piet Mondrian , René Magritte , Marcel Duchamp , Andy Warhol , and Barnett Newman . Under director Neal Benezra, who

1196-621: The early 1950s, Still severed ties with commercial galleries. In 1961 he moved to a 22-acre farm near Westminster , Maryland , removing himself further from the art world. Still used a barn on the property as a studio during the warm weather months. In 1966, Still and his second wife purchased a 4,300-square-foot house at 312 Church Street in New Windsor, Maryland , about eight miles from their farm, where he lived until his death. Still married Lillian August Battan circa 1930. They had two daughters, born in 1939 and 1942. The couple separated in

1248-613: The exhibit was planned to show at the Portland Art Museum and then embark on a two-year international tour. In March 2011, a Maryland court with jurisdiction over Patricia Still's estate ruled that four of Still's works could be sold before they officially became part of the museum's collection. In November 2011, Sotheby's in New York sold the four works; PH-351 (1940) for US$ 1.2 million, 1947-Y-No. 2 (1947) for US$ 31.4 million, 1949-A-No. 1 (1949) for US$ 61.7 million and PH-1033 (1976) for US$ 19.6 million. The proceeds from

1300-588: The explicit requirement that none of these works of art will be sold, given, or exchanged but are to be retained in the place described above exclusively assigned to them in perpetuity for exhibition and study." After Still's death in 1980, the Still collection of approximately 2,400 works was sealed off completely from public and scholarly access for more than twenty years. In August 2004, the City of Denver , Colorado announced it had been chosen by Patricia Still to receive

1352-469: The five-story building began in early 1992, with an opening in 1995, the institution's 60th anniversary. At the time of the new building's opening, SFMOMA touted itself as the largest new American art museum of the decade and, with its 50,000 square feet (4,600 m ) of exhibition space, the second-largest single structure in the United States devoted to modern art. (New York's Museum of Modern Art , with 100,000 square feet (9,300 m ) of gallery space,

1404-497: The format that he would intensify and refine throughout the rest of his career – a large-scale color field applied with palette knives. Among Still's well known paintings is 1957-D No. 1, 1957 (right), which is mainly black and yellow with patches of white and a small amount of red. These four colors, and variations on them (purples, dark blues) are predominant in his work, although there is a tendency for his paintings to use darker shades. In 1943, Still's first solo show took place at

1456-507: The fourth floor with sophisticated lighting and sound systems; state-of-the-art conservation studios on the seventh and eighth floors; and, on the seventh floor, a long balcony that offers skyline views to the east, toward Salesforce Tower and the Bay Bridge . The expansion facades are clad with lightweight panels made of Fibre-Reinforced Plastic ; upon completion, this was the largest application of composites technology to architecture in

1508-636: The impression that one layer of color has been "torn" off the painting, revealing the colors underneath. Another point of departure with Newman and Rothko is the way the paint is laid on the canvas; while Rothko and Newman used fairly flat colors and relatively thin paint, Still uses a thick impasto , causing subtle variety and shades that shimmer across the painting surfaces. His large mature works recall natural forms and natural phenomena at their most intense and mysterious; ancient stalagmites, caverns, foliage, seen both in darkness and in light lend poetic richness and depth to his work. By 1947, he had begun working in

1560-556: The late 1940s and divorced in 1954. In 1957, Still married Patricia Alice Garske, who had been one of his students at Washington State and was sixteen years his junior. Having developed his signature style in San Francisco between 1946 and 1950 while teaching at the California School of Fine Arts, Still is considered one of the foremost Color Field painters – his non-figurative paintings are non-objective, and largely concerned with juxtaposing different colors and surfaces in

1612-655: The museum beginning in 1937, and in 1946 brought in filmmaker Frank Stauffacher to found the Art in Cinema film series, which ran for nine years. The museum continued its expansion into new media with the 1951 launch of a biweekly television program, Art in Your Life , later renamed Discovery , which ran for three years. Morley ended her 23-year tenure as museum director in 1958 and was succeeded by George D. Culler (1958–65) and Gerald Nordland (1966–72). In 1967, SFMOMA inaugurated

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1664-494: The museum gained a custodial relationship for the contemporary art collection of Doris and Donald Fisher of Gap Inc. The Fisher Collection includes some 1,100 works from artists including Alexander Calder , Chuck Close , Willem de Kooning , Richard Diebenkorn , Anselm Kiefer , Ellsworth Kelly , Roy Lichtenstein , Brice Marden , Agnes Martin , Gerhard Richter , Richard Serra , Cy Twombly , and Andy Warhol , among many others. The collection will be on loan to SFMOMA for

1716-429: The museum's operations. It offers approximately 142,000 square feet (13,200 m ) of indoor and outdoor gallery space, as well as nearly 15,000 square feet (1,400 m ) of art-filled free-access public space, more than doubling SFMOMA's previous capacity for the presentation of art and providing almost six times as much public space as the pre-expansion building. The soaring "silo" with its Oculus Bridge remained, but

1768-685: The previous building, allowing SFMOMA to showcase an expanding collection along with the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of contemporary art. SFMOMA was founded in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art. For its first sixty years, the museum rented the fourth floor of the Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center . A gift of 36 artworks from Albert M. Bender , including The Flower Carrier (1935) by Diego Rivera , established

1820-579: The project: Adjaye Associates ; Diller Scofidio + Renfro ; Foster + Partners ; and Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta . In July 2010 the museum selected Snøhetta to design the expansion. On May 14, 2016, following a three-year-long closure, the museum re-opened to the public. The approximately 235,000-square-foot (21,800 m ) expansion joined the existing building with a new addition spanning from Minna to Howard Streets. The expanded building includes seven levels dedicated to art and public programming, and three floors housing enhanced support space for

1872-513: The reception desks and coat-check desk. In 2009, SFMOMA opened its 14,400 sq ft (1,340 m ) rooftop sculpture garden and pavilion, located above the museum's parking structure and situated across an enclosed pedestrian bridge from the fifth-floor galleries. Following an invitational competition held in 2006, the garden was designed by Jensen Architects in collaboration with Conger Moss Guillard Landscape Architecture. It features two open-air spaces for plants and sculpture and between them

1924-604: The sales, US$ 114 million, went to the Clyfford Still Museum "to support its endowment and collection-related expenses." In the decade prior to the sale, only 11 of Still's works came up at auction. The Clyfford Still Museum opened on November 18, 2011. In December 2011, a visitor to the museum was accused of causing $ 10,000 worth of damage to Still's 1957-J no.2 oil painting. In 2013, the Clyfford Still Museum Research Center

1976-522: The second floor offers resources for educators, and hosts events and talks. Larger events are held in the theater on the first floor SFMOMA has published numerous books, catalogues, and digital publications to document and provide context for exhibitions and the museum’s collection, and to showcase the scholarship of curators. Recent books include Tauba Auerbach ― S v Z (2020), Dawoud Bey: Two American Projects (2020), Joan Mitchell (2021), and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence (2021). This gallery

2028-539: The senior curator of painting and sculpture, Gary Garrels, resigned after using the term " reverse discrimination " during an all-staff Zoom meeting, which caused an uproar. Looking back on the incident in 2023, and quoting Garrel's resignation letter in full, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CiMAM) called his resignation "a radical and bewildering gesture by an advocate for diversity." In 2022, Christopher Bedford

2080-486: The soaring light well and stairway...Outside, rising above the nearly windowless, striated brick facade, is the giant black-and-white striped silo of the central well, sliced on the bias, topped by a 130-foot-high elliptical skylight that has already become the museum's trademark. Botta's interior design is marked by alternating bands of polished and flame-finished black granite on the floor, ground-level walls, and column bases, and by bands of natural and black-stained wood on

2132-784: The summers of 1934 and 1935 at the Trask Foundation (now Yaddo ) in Saratoga Springs , New York. In 1937, along with Washington State colleague Worth Griffin, Still co-founded the Nespelem Art Colony that produced hundreds of portraits and landscapes depicting Colville Indian Reservation Native American life over the course of four summers. In 1941 Still relocated to the San Francisco Bay area where he worked in various war industries while pursuing painting. He had his first solo exhibition at

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2184-482: The work of Jeff Koons , Sigmar Polke , and Willem de Kooning . In 1992, Harry W. "Hunk" Anderson and Mary Margaret "Moo" Anderson "transformed SFMOMA'S collection of American Pop art in one fell swoop," building on prior gifts of works by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns with additional works dating from the early 1960s to the early 1980s, including paintings by Jim Dine , Roy Lichtenstein , James Rosenquist , Andy Warhol , and Robert Indiana , as well as

2236-766: The work of a living artist. Still received the Award of Merit for Painting in 1972 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters , of which he became a member in 1978, and the Skowhegan Medal for Painting in 1975. Still wrote a will in 1978 that left a portion of his work, along with his archives, to his wife Patricia and stated: "I give and bequeath all the remaining works of art executed by me in my collection to an American city that will agree to build or assign and maintain permanent quarters exclusively for these works of art and assure their physical survival with

2288-502: The world for modern and contemporary art. The museum was founded in 1935 with galleries in the Veterans Building in Civic Center . In 1995, the museum opened in its Mario Botta -designed home in the SoMa district . On May 14, 2016, following a three-year-long closure for a major expansion project by Snøhetta architects, the museum re-opened to the public with more than double the gallery space and almost six times as much public space as

2340-417: Was built on a 59,000-square-foot (5,500 m ) parking lot on Third Street between Mission and Howard streets. The South-of-Market site, near Moscone Convention Center , was targeted through an agreement between the museum, the redevelopment agency, and the development firm of Olympia & York . Land was provided by the agency and developer, but the rest of the museum was privately funded. Construction of

2392-476: Was designed by Allied Works Architecture, led by Brad Cloepfil . The museum is recognized as a successful implementation of contemporary architecture and an icon for the city of Denver. From January 24 to April 17, 2016, the Denver Art Museum hosted a temporary exhibit called "Case Work", which showcased the design process used for this museum and other major works by Allied and Cloepfil. After Denver,

2444-403: Was launched. Its aim is to explore the period of art and history in which the abstract painter worked. Plans include a fellowship program, cross-disciplinary scholarly publications, and research symposia. "I never wanted color to be color. I never wanted texture to be texture, or images to become shapes. I wanted them all to fuse together into a living spirit." "It's intolerable to be stopped by

2496-411: Was named director, succeeding Neal Benezra. The museum's announcement of his selection noted that " DEI has been at the center of Bedford’s work: he has made evident a natural synergy between policy and program, ensuring that diversity, equity and inclusion is implemented across all endeavors." In the summer of 1988, architects Mario Botta , Thomas Beeby and Frank Gehry were announced as finalists in

2548-708: Was obliged to move to a temporary facility on Post Street in March 1945 to make way for the United Nations Conference on International Organization ; following the signing of the United Nations Charter at Herbst Theatre in the Veterans Building , the museum returned to its original location in July. Later that year, the museum presented Jackson Pollock 's first solo museum exhibition. Founding director Grace Morley held film screenings at

2600-660: Was recruited from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, SFMOMA achieved an increase in both visitor numbers and membership while continuing to build its collection. In 2005 the museum announced the promised gift of nearly 800 photographs to the Prentice and Paul Sack Photographic Trust at SFMOMA from the Sacks' private collection. The museum saw record attendance in 2008 with the exhibition Frida Kahlo , which drew more than 400,000 visitors during its three-month run. In 2009,

2652-474: Was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art , and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. The collection is displayed in 170,000 square feet (16,000 m ) of exhibition space, making the museum one of the largest in the United States overall, and one of the largest in

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2704-487: Was then the largest single structure, while the nearly 80,000 combined square feet of Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles put it in second place). Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times reported that the new Botta building consists of galleries rising around a central, skylighted atrium. The overall structure, roughly speaking, is a series of stepped-back blocks with a cylinder in the middle containing

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