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95-546: Bruce Conner was born November 18, 1933, in McPherson , Kansas . His well-to-do middle-class family moved to Wichita , when Conner was four. He attended high school in Wichita, Kansas. Conner studied at Wichita University (now Wichita State University ) and later at University of Nebraska , where he graduated in 1956 with a bachelor of fine arts degree. During this time as a student he visited New York City. Conner worked in

190-497: A "polymathic nonconformist" who was "one of the great outliers of American Art" and "fearlessly evolved into one of America’s first thoroughly multidisciplinary artists." Poet and critic John Yau, writing in Hyperallergic , suggested that Conner "possessed the third or inner eye, meaning he was capable of microscopic and macroscopic vision, of delving into the visceral while attaining a state of illumination." J. Hoberman , in

285-633: A $ 1 million grant from the Svane Family Foundation, in 2023 the Fine Arts Museums acquired works by 30 Bay Area artists, including Wesaam Al-Badry, Rupy C. Tut , Woody D. Othello, and Chelsea Ryoko Wong. The exhibition Crafting Radicality: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, on view at the de Young museum in 2023, displays works from the gift, “captures the local moment, as reported by KQED” The de Young also organized

380-725: A 10-foot (3.0 m) housepost from the Iatmul people of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea , a group of brightly painted carvings used in malanggan ceremonials of New Ireland , a roll of feather money from Nindu Island of Santa Cruz, a fan from the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia , a rare navigation figure from the Caroline Islands of Micronesia , and a selection of powerful wood carvings from

475-487: A city in 1874. As early as 1875, city leaders of Marion held a meeting to consider a branch railroad from Florence . In 1878, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and parties from Marion County and McPherson County chartered the Marion and McPherson Railway Company . In 1879, a branch line was built from Florence to McPherson. In 1880 it was extended to Lyons and in 1881 it was extended to Ellinwood . The line

570-412: A common theme among his later works. Conner also began making short movies in the late 1950s. He explicitly titled his movies in all capital letters. Conner's first and possibly most famous film was entitled A Movie (1958). A Movie was a "poverty film", in that instead of shooting his own footage Conner used compilations of old newsreels and other old films. He skillfully re-edited that footage, set

665-510: A dark background. Throne Angel , in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art , is an example with the artist crouching on a stool. Conner also began to draw elaborately-folded inkblots . In the 1980s and 1990s Conner continued to work on collages, including ones using religious imagery, and inkblot drawings that have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including the 1997 Whitney Biennial . Throughout Conner's entire body of work,

760-474: A growing collection of contemporary wearable art. In August 2017, The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll marked another highlight at the de Young. The exhibition celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and featured fashion from the late sixties from the museum's permanent collection and on loan from Bay Area independent designers. The exhibit hosted 270,000 visitors. In

855-529: A number of short films in the mid-1960s in addition to Report and Vivian . These include Ten Second Film (1965), an advertisement for the New York Film Festival that was rejected as being "too fast;" Breakaway (1966), featuring music sung by and danced to by Toni Basil ; The White Rose (1967), documenting the removal of fellow artist Jay DeFeo 's magnum opus from her San Francisco apartment, with Miles Davis 's Sketches of Spain as

950-755: A retrospective exhibition which opened at Museum of Modern Art in July 2016. A New York City exhibition of assemblages and collage in late 1960 garnered favorable attention in The New York Times , The New Yorker , Art News , and other national publications. Later that year Conner had the first exhibition at the Batman Gallery, in San Francisco; Ernest Burden, owner and designer of the Designer's Gallery in San Francisco assisted Conner and

1045-553: A searching, visionary world of masquerades, dark desire, mordant wit and spiritual transcendence.". Remarking on the exhibition, artist Sarah Hotchkiss called Conner's career "fascinating and enduringly salient" and offered that it was difficult to write about his practice in "both a concise and comprehensive way" because "[t]here's just so much there there.". 2008 Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International "Bruce Conner: I sent announcements to eight or nine people, ten people probably, telling them that they were all members of

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1140-532: A soundtrack of Ray Charles ' " What'd I Say ." The movie premiered in 1962; most suggest the film concerns sex and war. Conner and his wife, artist Jean Conner , moved to Mexico c.  1962 , despite the increasing popularity of his work. The two — along with their just-born son, Robert — returned to the USA and were living in Massachusetts in 1963, when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Conner filmed

1235-472: A system of ball-bearing sliding plates and viscous fluid dampers that absorb kinetic energy and convert it to heat”. A new museum structure located in the middle of an urban park was initially controversial. San Francisco voters twice defeated bond measures that were to fund the new museum project. After the second defeat, the museum itself planned to relocate to a location in the financial district . However, an effort led by generous supporters arose and kept

1330-673: A traveling exhibition, a major monograph of his work was published by the Walker Art Center , titled 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story, Part II . The exhibition, which featured specially built in-gallery screening rooms for Conner's films as well as selected assemblages, felt-tip pen and inkblot drawings, engraving collages, photograms, and conceptual pieces, was seen at the Walker, the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth,

1425-897: A variety of media from an early age. In 1955, Conner studied for six months at Brooklyn Museum Art School on a scholarship. His first solo gallery show in New York City took place in 1956 and featured paintings. In 1957 Bruce Conner dropped out of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado and moved to San Francisco. His first solo shows in San Francisco, in 1958 and 1959, featured paintings, drawings, prints, collages, assemblages, and sculpture. The Designer's Gallery in San Francisco held Bruce's third solo show. The gallery featured black panels which set off his drawings. One of his paintings, Venus ,

1520-544: A west wing, was completed in 1925, the year de Young died. In 1929 the original Egyptian-style building was declared unsafe and demolished. By 1949, the elaborate cast concrete ornamentation of the original de Young was determined to be a hazard and removed because the salt air from the Pacific had rusted the supporting steel. As part of the agreement that created the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 1972,

1615-703: Is Waiting , Mea Culpa ) and three more films with Gleeson ( Take the 5:10 to Dreamland , Television Assassination , and Luke ). His film of dancer and choreographer Toni Basil , Breakaway (1966), featured a song recorded by Basil. Conner also continued to work on editioned prints and tapestries during the last 10 years of his life. These works often used digital technology to revisit earlier imagery and themes; for example, his Jacquard tapestry editions, created in collaboration with Donald Farnsworth of Magnolia Editions in Oakland, CA , were translated from digitally manipulated scans of small-scale paper collages, made in

1710-654: Is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, McPherson has a humid subtropical climate , abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The 2020 United States census counted 14,082 people, 5,645 households, and 3,495 families in McPherson. The population density was 1,891.7 per square mile (730.4/km ). There were 6,221 housing units at an average density of 835.7 units per square mile (322.7 units/km ). The racial makeup

1805-628: Is clad with variably perforated and dimpled copper plates, whose patina will slowly change through exposure to the elements. This exterior facade was developed and fabricated by engineers at Zahner. A 144 ft. (44 m) observation tower allows visitors to see much of Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse (see below) and rises above the Park's treetops, providing a view of the Golden Gate and Marin Headlands . The twisting 144 foot (44 m) tall tower

1900-673: Is located about 0.5 miles from the De Young. The 44 O'Shaughnessy Muni bus and the Golden Gate Park Free Shuttle stop at the museum's entrance. The museum received 797,444 visitors in 2022, up 102 percent from 2021. In 2022 it ranked sixteenth in the List of most-visited museums in the United States , and was 68th in the List of most-visited art museums in the world. The museum opened in 1895 in one of

1995-435: Is produced through techniques such as beading and embroidery . The de Young has exhibited fashion since the 1930s, with pieces by Dior , Balenciaga , Madame Grès , Yves Saint Laurent , Chanel , Ralph Rucci , and Kaisik Wong . There are equally compelling collections of 18th and 19th-century European fans , an excellent lace collection, a spectacular group of European ecclesiastical vestments and furnishings, and

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2090-473: The New York Review of Books , focused on Conner’s movies, including Crossroads (1976), assembled from previously classified government footage of the 1946 Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test , which is shown in its own room in the exhibition. That film, Hoberman wrote, “seems like an exemplary—and rare—instance of twentieth-century religious art” for which “[t]he word ‘awe-inspiring’ barely communicates

2185-481: The 2020 census , the population of the city was 14,082. The city is named after Union General James Birdseye McPherson , a Civil War general. It is home to McPherson College and Central Christian College . For millennia, the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by Native Americans . In 1803, most of modern Kansas was secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase . In 1854,

2280-682: The Academy Film Archive , in conjunction with the Pacific Film Archive , in 1995. In July 2016, It's All True , a career-spanning retrospective of Conner's work co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and New York's Museum of Modern Art , opened at the latter institution. Roberta Smith of The New York Times called the exhibition an "extravaganza" and "a massive tribute, with some 250 works in nearly 10 media." Smith described Conner as

2375-585: The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a main line from Herington through McPherson to Pratt . In 1888, this line was extended to Liberal . Later, it was extended to Tucumcari, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas . It foreclosed in 1891 and taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway , which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad , merged in 1988 with Missouri Pacific Railroad , merged in 1997 with Union Pacific Railroad . Most locals still refer to this railroad as

2470-841: The Hudson River School , Barbizon , and Tonalism ; Impressionism and the Ashcan School ; Arts and Crafts ; Modernism ; Social Realism and American Scene; Surrealism and Abstraction ; Beat , Pop , and Figurative; and Contemporary. Although the permanent collection is national in scope, art made in California from the Gold Rush era to the present day is also on display in the de Young. Important California collections with national significance include examples of Spanish colonial, Arts and Crafts, and Bay Area Figurative and Assemblage art . Important among them are

2565-546: The Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state . In 1867, McPherson County was founded. McPherson was founded in 1870 by the twelve members of the McPherson Town Company. In 1887, city officials began a failed attempt to have the community named the state capital. The first post office in McPherson was established in 1873. McPherson was incorporated as

2660-620: The Los Angeles Times . Part of the exhibition is documented in Conner's film Vivian . Toward the end of 1964, London's Robert Fraser Gallery hosted a show of Conner's work, which the artist documented in a film called London One Man Show . Also that year, Conner decided he would no longer make assemblages, even though it was precisely such work that had brought him the most attention. According to Conner's friend and fellow film-maker Stan Brakhage in his book Film at Wit's End , Conner

2755-614: The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum , is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco , California . Located in Golden Gate Park , it is a component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco , along with the Legion of Honor . The de Young is named for early San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young . The museum is accessible via public transit on the N Judah Metro line. The westbound 9th Avenue and Irving station

2850-517: The Maori peoples of New Zealand. The Art of the Americas collections are of national significance to art history , anthropology , and world history , and they have helped establish the de Young as a primary source for cultural research and study. The extensive collection of ancient American and Native American art comprises nearly 2,000 works of art from Meso-America, Central and South America, and

2945-599: The McPherson Globe Refiners basketball team ( AAU ). They were coached by Gene Johnson , former head coach of Wichita University (now Wichita State University ). The Refiners were best known for their tall centers, Joe Fortenberry (6–8) and Willard Schmidt (6–9) and their fast-break style of play. Billed as "The Tallest Team in the World", the Refiners often held their opponents to low scores because of

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3040-656: The Summer Olympics . The Refiners' home court is now the McPherson Community Building at 121 East Marlin and can be toured by contacting the local Convention and Visitors Bureau. A mural in honor of the Refiners was completed in 2010 at the intersection of Kansas and Ash, south of their home court in preparation for the 75th anniversary celebration of their victory in 2011. According to the United States Census Bureau ,

3135-500: The Surrealist tradition and of San Francisco's Victorian past, these works established Conner as a leading figure within the international assemblage "movement." Generally, these works do not have precise meanings, but some of them suggest what Conner saw as the discarded beauty of modern America, the deforming impact of society on the individual, violence against women , and consumerism . Social commentary and dissension remained

3230-891: The de Young in San Francisco, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Conner announced his retirement at the time of the "2000 BC" exhibition, but in fact continued to make art until shortly before his death. However, much of this work, including in particular the many inkblot drawings he made, including a series responding to 9/11, were presented using pseudonyms or the name "Anonymous." Conner also made collages from old engravings, and completed (depending on how they are counted) three or four experimental films. He also used computer-based graphics programs to translate older engraving collages into large-sized woven tapestries, and made paper-based prints in that way as well. Various other artistic projects were completed as well, including in

3325-474: The "Rock Island". By 1888, the community was at the junction of four railroad lines. Major industries have included a large flour mill, an insurance company headquarters, and an oil refinery. The National Old Trails Road , also known as the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway, was established in 1912, and was routed through Windom , Conway and McPherson. In the 1930s, the local refinery sponsored

3420-463: The 1970s Conner focused on drawing and photography, including many photos of the late 1970s West Coast punk rock scene. A 1978 film used Devo 's "Mongoloid" as a soundtrack. Conner in the 1970s also created along with photographer Edmund Shea a series of life-size photograms called Angels . Conner would pose in front of large pieces of photo paper, which after being exposed to light and then developed produced images of Conner's body in white against

3515-474: The 1990s from engraving illustrations from Bible stories. Conner, who had twice announced his own death as a conceptual art event or prank, died on July 7, 2008, and was survived by his wife, American artist Jean Sandstedt Conner , and his son, Robert. The Bruce Conner papers are held by the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley . Conner's film Crossroads was preserved by

3610-415: The 5,645 households, 28.1% had children under the age of 18; 47.9% were married couples living together; 26.0% had a female householder with no spouse or partner present. 32.5% of households consisted of individuals and 13.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.1 and the average family size was 2.6. The percent of those with a bachelor's degree or higher

3705-511: The Americas, Oceania, and Africa. Collections on view at the de Young Museum include: American Art , African Art , Oceanic Art , Arts of the Americas , Costume and Textile arts , Graphic arts , Photography and Sculpture . Some of the collection is accessible online on the museum website and Google Arts and Culture . The American art collection consists of over 5,000 objects including 1,000 paintings, 800 sculptures, and 3,000 decorative arts objects. It includes works ranging from 1670 to

3800-553: The Batman owners and had the entire gallery painted black, similar to the last show at the Designer's Gallery to showcase Bruce's work, and the show received very favorable reviews locally. Another exhibition in New York in 1961 again received positive notices. In 1961, Conner completed his second film, Cosmic Ray , a 4-minute, 43 second black-and-white quick edit collage of found footage and film that Conner had shot himself, set to

3895-920: The Bothin Library and department research files, the American Art Study Center is the most important research center for American art on the West Coast . In 1988, the Fine Arts Museums made a commitment to collect international contemporary art. In addition to works in traditional media, this commitment has expanded the museums’ holdings of works in new or multiple media––including installation and conceptual works, video and other time-based media, and photography and other lens-based media––to more accurately reflect contemporary art practice. Contemporary acquisitions include Wall of Light Horizon (2005), by Sean Scully and signature sculptures by Zhan Wang and Cornelia Parker . The strength of

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3990-459: The Elders ), Pat Steir , David Park , Betye Saar , Kiki Smith , Richard Diebenkorn , Mel Ramos , Beth Lipman , Wayne Thiebaud , and Mary Lovelace O'Neal . In January 2017, the institution announced a significant new addition to its collection of American Art through the acquisition of 62 works by 22 contemporary African American Arts, including Thornton Dial 's Blood And Meat: Survival For

4085-415: The Fine Arts Museums announced the promised gift by Bernard and Barbro Osher of 61 works of American Art to the museums’ collection. ARTnews reported that the gift included works by well-known American artists like Georgia O’Keeffe, Winslow Homer , John Singer Sargent , Charles Sheeler , and Alexander Calder . They figure alongside lesser-known ones like Boston School painter William McGregor Paxton ,

4180-635: The Rat Bastard Protective Association. Its members included Jay DeFeo , Michael McClure (with whom Conner attended school in Wichita), Manuel Neri , Joan Brown , Wally Hedrick , Wallace Berman , Jess Collins , Carlos Villa and George Herms . Conner coined the name as a play on 'Scavengers Protective Society'. A 1959 exhibition at the Spatsa Gallery in San Francisco involved an early exploration by Conner into

4275-444: The Rat Bastard Protective Association. I was president. They should pay their dues. The next meeting was scheduled at my house. Then it was scheduled after that for every couple of weeks at Fred Martin's, or Joan Brown's, or Wally's house, or wherever." McPherson, Kansas McPherson ( / m ə k ˈ f ɜːr s ən / mək- FUR -sən ) is a city in and the county seat of McPherson County, Kansas , United States. As of

4370-455: The Refiners at Madison Square Garden and the USA team was composed of both Universal and Refiners players and one college student. Coach Johnson was selected to be the assistant coach. After a long journey by boat to Europe, the team played in alternating squads at the Olympics. The Refiners' portion of the team took the court to defeat Canada 19–8 in the gold medal game on August 14, 1936, at

4465-663: The US. The exhibition will travel to Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt in the spring of 2019. More than 1,400 stellar examples from the eastern Sudan, the Guinea coast, west and central Africa, eastern and southern Africa, and elsewhere on the continent are included in the Fine Arts Museums’ African art collection at the de Young. The African art collection is presented thematically rather than geographically, emphasizing

4560-616: The West Coast of North America. Art from cultures indigenous to the American continents was a defining feature of the museum's charter collection and continues to be an area of significant growth. Special galleries are devoted to ancient objects from Mexico, including an outstanding grouping of Teotihuacan murals. The current building was completed by architects Jacques Herzog , Pierre de Meuron and Fong + Chan and opened on October 15, 2005. Structural, civil and geotechnical engineering

4655-725: The World (1992) and Lost Cows (2000-1), Joe Light's Dawn (1988), Jessie T. Pettway 's Bars and String-Pierced Columns (1950s), Lonnie Holley 's Him and Her Hold the Root (1994) and Joe Minter 's Camel at the Watering Hole (1995) The works were first exhibited in Revelations: Art from the African American South in 2018 and subsequently in the museum's permanent collection galleries dedicated to Modern and Contemporary American Art. In July 2023,

4750-586: The aesthetic and expressive qualities of the art. The Oceanic collections were charter collections of the de Young, their nucleus formed in 1894 at the California Midwinter International Exposition in Golden Gate Park. Additional Oceanic works of sculpture , basketry , tapa , ceramics , and lithics have since been acquired, bringing the holdings to more than 3,000. Highlights of the collection include

4845-602: The age of 18 and 9.3% of those ages 65 or over. McPherson College and Central Christian College are located in McPherson. The community is served by McPherson USD 418 public school district. USD 418 has an Early Childhood center, four elementary schools (Eisenhower, Lincoln, Rosevelt, Washington), McPherson Middle School and McPherson High School. McPherson's mascot is the Bullpups. Additionally, private school options are available at St. Joseph Catholic Church & School, serving students through sixth grade. McPherson

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4940-566: The artist. Inclusion in the exhibition is decided on merit alone…Artworks chosen for this year’s de Young Open will be displayed from floor-to-ceiling, “salon-style,” in the museum's Herbst Exhibition Galleries from Sept. 30, 2023, to Jan. 21, 2024.” Since 1991, the American Art Department has housed a set of the Smithsonian Institution ’s Archives of American Art microfilm collection. In conjunction with

5035-529: The atom bomb, that are almost achingly deliberate in their pace. Conner was among the first to use pop music for film soundtracks. His films are now considered to be the precursors of the music video genre. They have inspired other filmmakers, such as Conner's friend Dennis Hopper , who said, “Bruce’s movies changed my entire concept of editing. In fact, much of the editing of Easy Rider came directly from watching Bruce’s films." Conner's works are often metamedia in nature, offering commentary and critique on

5130-655: The buildings originally constructed for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 (a fair modeled on the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of the previous year). It was housed in an Egyptian revival structure which had been the Fine Arts Building at the fair. The building was badly damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , and was closed for a year and a half for repairs. Before long,

5225-409: The centers' ability to deflect shots on the way to the basket in what today would be called goaltending. Coach Johnson was one of the innovators of the fast break and full-court press. The Refiners won the AAU national championship in 1936 against the Hollywood Universal team. This earned them the right to compete for the first ever USA Olympic basketball team in 1936. Hollywood Universal narrowly beat

5320-451: The city has a total area of 7.23 square miles (18.73 km ), of which 7.18 square miles (18.60 km ) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km ) is water. The community is located on U.S. Route 56 , just west of Interstate 135 . McPherson is part of the Little Arkansas River Watershed that ultimately empties into the Arkansas River in Wichita . Dry Turkey Creek is a wet weather stream that composes several enhanced lakes within

5415-611: The city limits. It feeds the Lakeside Park Lagoon before crossing under East Euclid Street and Kansas Avenue, where it then forms Wall Park Lake. South and west of town are four units of the reclaimed McPherson Valley Wetlands , acquired and managed by Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks , Ducks Unlimited , and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service . Prior to 1880, this natural wetlands was an important waterfowl and wildlife habitat second only to Cheyenne Bottoms in importance to migratory bird populations. These wetlands continue to see improvement and development. The climate in this area

5510-676: The collection lies in artists associated with California, including Piotr Abraszewski , Christopher Brown , Squeak Carnwath , Jim Christensen, Robert Colescott , Hung Liu , Bruce Nauman , Rachel Neubauer , Ed Ruscha and Masami Teraoka . Lens-based and time-based media works include those by Nigel Poor , Catherine Wagner , Rebeca Bollinger , Alan Rath , the Propeller Group , Firelei Baez , Carrie Mae Weems , and Lisa Reihana . The museums have also acquired works by artists such as Anish Kapoor , Odd Nerdrum , Gottfried Helnwein , Doris Salcedo , David Nash , Rose B. Simpson , Barbara Hepworth , Richard Deacon , and Frank Bowling . With

5605-446: The commercialization of Kennedy's death" while also examining the media's mythic construction of JFK and Jackie — a hunger for images that "guaranteed that they would be transformed into idols, myths, Gods." Conner's collaborations with musicians include Devo ( Mongoloid ), Terry Riley ( Looking for Mushrooms (long version) and Easter Morning ), Patrick Gleeson and Terry Riley ( Crossroads ), Brian Eno and David Byrne ( America

5700-449: The complex and conflicting personae of the Bay Area’s most important all-around artist". Critic Kenneth Baker concluded that the "apocalyptic and psychedelic qualities" of Conner's work "play well against the shrill vulgarity, social desperation and economic cruelty of current domestic and world affairs. It lends the show an uncanny timeliness.". Artist Julia Couzens wrote that it was a "staggering exhibition" in which "[t]he viewer walks into

5795-521: The cumulative sense of wonder and dread” experienced while watching it. It's All True opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on October 29, 2016, with some 85 works added to those seen at New York's Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco Chronicle critic Charles Demarais observed that there were "something like 18 discrete galleries" in the show and "that virtually every room seems to contain at least one masterwork.". He also called it "the best art museum exhibition of 2016, brilliantly unraveling

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5890-411: The de Young's collection of European art was sent to the Legion of Honor . In compensation, the de Young received the right to display the bulk of the organization's anthropological holdings. These include significant pre-Hispanic works from Teotihuacan and Peru, as well as indigenous tribal art from sub-Saharan Africa . The building was severely damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake . It in turn

5985-418: The fall of 2018, the de Young organized Contemporary Muslim Fashions . The exhibition explored Muslim female dress codes from multiple communities, cultures and religious interpretations, starting at the turn of the millennium. It was the first large scale exploration of the topic at an art institution, and included emerging and established designers and artists from Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia and

6080-513: The few hundred submissions curators expected. Instead, some 6,000 artists sent in 11,500 works. 877 works were selected and although the museum did not act as an intermediary, all of the works were available for sale.[23] In 2023, the de Young announced that the de Young Open would become a triennial. “The works included in the exhibition will be selected by an anonymous jury of Bay Area artists and curators. Jurors review submissions exclusively from digital files without any identifying information about

6175-470: The first-ever retrospective of Feminist Art pioneer Judy Chicago in 2020, forty years after her landmark installation The Dinner Party (1974–79) made its debut in San Francisco. Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI organized at the de Young in 2021 was the “first major exhibition to unpack this question through a lens of contemporary art and propose new ways of thinking about intelligence, nature, and artifice.” FRIEZE magazine named it one of

6270-513: The historical connections between works in the collection. Painters with paintings in this art museum include; Mary Cassatt , John Singleton Copley , John Vanderlyn , Thomas Cole ( Prometheus Bound ), Thomas Hill , Thomas Wood ( Newspaper Vendor ), Samuel Brookes, John Peto , Childe Hassam , Edmund C. Tarbell ( The Blue Veil ), George Hitchcock , Louise Nevelson , Maynard Dixon , Otis Oldfield , Georgia O'Keeffe , Granville Redmond , Elizabeth Catlett Thomas Hart Benton ( Susannah and

6365-538: The influential artist-teacher Frank Vincent DuMond , and the American Impressionists Edward Henry Potthast , Frederick Carl Frieseke , and Richard Edward Miller . The de Young Open In March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, director CEO Thomas Campbell announced that the de Young Museum would host an open-call exhibition for “all Bay Area artists.” Alta magazine called it “an exhibition of immense scale, inherent complexity, and straightforward generosity.”[22] The response to The de Young Open went well beyond

6460-537: The legendary Family Dog Productions at the Avalon Ballroom . He also made—using the new-at-the-time felt-tip pens —intricate black-and-white mandala -like drawings, many of which he subsequently (in the very early 1970s) lithographed into prints. One of Conner's drawings was used (in boldly colored variations) on the cover of the August, 1967 issue (#9) of the San Francisco Oracle . He also made collages made from 19th-century engraving images, which he first exhibited as The Dennis Hopper One Man Show. He also made

6555-493: The media — especially television and its advertisements — and its effect on American culture and society. His film Report (1967) which features repetitive, found footage of the Kennedy assassination paired with a soundtrack of radio broadcasts of the event and consumerist and other imagery — including the film's final image of a close-up of a " Sell " button — may be the Conner film with the most visceral impact. Bruce Jenkins wrote that Report "perfectly captures Conner's anger over

6650-420: The median household income was $ 57,931 (with a margin of error of +/- $ 6,181) and the median family income was $ 69,846 (+/- $ 6,510). Males had a median income of $ 38,465 (+/- $ 4,682) versus $ 26,149 (+/- $ 1,423) for females. The median income for those above 16 years old was $ 32,004 (+/- $ 2,858). Approximately, 4.8% of families and 10.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 7.9% of those under

6745-422: The most significant museum collections of works by Bay Area painter Chiura Obata and sculptor Ruth Asawa . The permanent collection galleries integrate decorative arts objects with paintings and sculptures, emphasizing the artistic, social, and political context for the works on display. While essentially chronological, the installation also juxtaposes works from different cultures and time periods to emphasize

6840-402: The museum in the Golden Gate Park. The designers were sensitive to the appearance of the building in its natural setting. Walter Hood , a landscape architect based in Oakland , designed the museum's new gardens. The entire exterior is clad in 163,118 sq ft (15,154.2 m ) of copper, which is expected to eventually oxidize and take on a greenish tone and a distinct texture to echo

6935-492: The museum's steady development called for a new space to better serve its growing audiences. Michael de Young responded by planning the building that would serve as the core of the de Young facility through the 20th century. Louis Christian Mullgardt , the coordinator for architecture for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition , designed the Spanish-Plateresque-style building. The new structure

7030-413: The nearby eucalyptus trees . In order to further harmonize with the surroundings, shapes were cut into the top to reveal gardens and courtyards where 48 trees had been planted, the giant tree-ferns that form a backdrop for the museum entrance are particularly dramatic. 5.12 acres (20,700 square meters) of new landscaping were planted as well, with 344 transplanted trees and 69 historic boulders. The building

7125-509: The notion of artistic identity. To publicize the show, the gallery printed up and distributed an exhibition announcement in the form of a small printed card with black borders (in the manner of a death announcement) with the text "Works by the Late Bruce Conner." A work of Conner's titled Child —a small human figure sculpted in black wax, mouth agape as if in pain and partially wrapped in nylon stockings, seated in—and partly tied by

7220-551: The present day. In 1978, the American art collections were transformed by the decision of John D. Rockefeller III and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller to donate their renowned collection of 110 paintings, 29 drawings, and 2 sculptures to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The de Young's chronological survey of American art includes galleries devoted to art in the following areas: Native American and Spanish Colonial; Anglo-Colonial; Federal era art and Neoclassical ; Victorian genre and realism ; trompe-l'œil still life ;

7315-521: The recurrence of religious imagery and symbology continues to underscore the essentially visionary nature of his work. ' May the Heart of the Tin Woodsman be with You from 1981, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art , is an example of the artist's collages that are both mystical and symbolic. It is an engraving collage, with glue, melted plastic and charred wood. In 1999, to accompany

7410-485: The soundtrack; and Looking for Mushrooms (1967), a three-minute color wild ride with the Beatles ' " Tomorrow Never Knows " as the soundtrack. (In 1996 he created a longer version of the film, setting it to music by Terry Riley ). In 1966, Dennis Hopper invited Conner to the location shoot for Cool Hand Luke ; the artist shot the proceedings in 85mm, revisiting this footage in 2004 to create his film Luke . During

7505-646: The stockings to—a small, old wooden child's high chair—literally made headlines when displayed at San Francisco's De Young Museum in December 1959 and January 1960. A meditation or perhaps comment on the then pending Caryl Chessman execution, the work horrified many. "It's Not Murder, It's Art," the San Francisco Chronicle headlined; its competitor the News-Call Bulletin headlined its article, "The Unliked 'Child'". The sculpture

7600-413: The television coverage of the event and edited and re-edited the footage with stock footage into another meditation on violence which he titled Report . The film was issued several times as it was re-edited. In 1964, Conner had a show at the Batman Gallery in San Francisco that lasted just three days, with Conner never leaving the gallery. The show was announced only via a small notice in the want ads of

7695-587: The top 10 exhibitions of the year. In 2021, the de Young organized artist Hung Liu's solo show, Golden Gate (金門), an exhibition that centered on the immigrant and migrant experience in California. Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence, which was first seen at the 2022 Venice Biennale, opened in February 2023 at the de Young. The US debut of the exhibition was notable for its inclusive, sensitive interpretative approach, spearheaded by FAMSF's Director of Interpretation Jackson Abrams. A particularly notable aspect

7790-610: The visuals to a recording of Ottorino Respighi 's Pines of Rome , and created an entertaining and thought-provoking 12-minute film, that while non-narrative has things to say about the experience of watching a movie and the human condition. In 1994, A Movie was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress . Conner subsequently made nearly two dozen mostly non-narrative experimental films . In 1959, Conner founded what he called

7885-561: The year of his death a large assemblage titled King . Conner also in late 2007 directed and approved an outdoor installation of a large painting, resulting in what one observer suggested is a final work-in-progress. His innovative technique of skillfully montaged shots from pre-existing borrowed or found footage can be seen in his first film A Movie (1958). His subsequent films are most often fast-paced collages of found footage or of footage shot by Conner; however, he made numerous films, including Crossroads , his 30-plus-minute meditation on

7980-400: Was 85.0% (11,970) white or European American (83.11% non-Hispanic white ), 2.29% (322) black or African-American , 0.82% (116) Native American or Alaska Native , 1.29% (182) Asian , 0.06% (8) Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian , 3.19% (449) from other races , and 7.35% (1,035) from two or more races . Hispanic or Latino of any race was 7.48% (1,053) of the population. Of

8075-545: Was acquired by the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1970, but greatly deteriorated in subsequent years, such that the museum kept it in storage for long periods and Conner at times asked that it not be shown or suggested it no longer existed. In 2015–2016, another attempt to restore the work was undertaken, involving months-long efforts by two conservators. The work was successfully restored and displayed in It's All True ,

8170-419: Was completed in 1919 and formally transferred by de Young to the city's park commissioners. In 1921, de Young added a central section, together with a tower that would become the museum's signature feature, and the museum began to assume the basic configuration that it retained until 2000. De Young's efforts were honored with the changing of the museum's name to the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. Another addition,

8265-469: Was demolished and replaced by a new building, which opened in 2005. The only remaining original elements of the old de Young are the vases and sphinxes located near the Pool of Enchantment. The palm trees in front of the building are also original to the site. The de Young showcases American art from the 17th through the 21st centuries, international contemporary art , textiles , and costumes , and art from

8360-679: Was displayed in the gallery window. The painting showed a nude inside a form representing a clam shell. A local policeman confronted the gallery owners to get it removed, "as children in the neighborhood might see the painting." The American Civil Liberties Union stood behind the gallery's right to display it, and the matter never became an issue. Conner first attracted widespread attention with his moody, nylon-shrouded assemblages , complex amalgams of found objects such as women's stockings, bicycle wheels, broken dolls, fur, fringe, costume jewelry, and candles, often combined with collaged or painted surfaces. Erotically charged and tinged with echoes of both

8455-419: Was estimated to be 18.4% of the population. 22.6% of the population was under the age of 18, 12.7% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37.2 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.2 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older, there were 100.8 males. The 2016-2020 5-year American Community Survey estimates show that

8550-565: Was leased and operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway . The line from Florence to Marion , was abandoned in 1968. In 1992, the line from Marion to McPherson was sold to Central Kansas Railway . In 1993, after heavy flood damage, the line from Marion to McPherson was abandoned. The original branch line connected Florence , Marion , Canada , Hillsboro , Lehigh , Canton , Galva , McPherson, Conway , Windom , Little River , Mitchell , Lyons , Chase , Ellinwood . In 1887,

8645-557: Was located on the National Old Trails Road , also known as the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway, that was established in 1912. Bus service is provided daily towards Wichita and Salina by BeeLine Express (subcontractor of Greyhound Lines ). McPherson has a daily newspaper , The McPherson Sentinel . and a weekly newspaper, The McPherson Weekly News , The following radio stations are licensed to McPherson: De Young Museum The de Young Museum , formally

8740-550: Was provided by Rutherford & Chekene ; Arup provided mechanical and electrical engineering. Herzog & de Meuron won the competition in January 1999 beating out other short-listed architects Tadao Ando and Antoine Predock . The terrain and seismic activity in San Francisco posed a challenge for the designers Herzog & de Meuron and principal architects Fong & Chan. To help withstand future earthquakes, “[the building] can move up to three feet (91 centimeters) due to

8835-460: Was reported step-by-step in great detail, with numerous photographs, as though it were a work of art. Just before Conner moved to Mexico in 1961, he repainted a worn sign on a road surface so that it read "Love". Conner produced work in a variety of forms from the 1960s forward. He was an active force in the San Francisco counterculture of the mid-1960s as a collaborator in Liquid light shows at

8930-442: Was signed into a New York gallery contract in the early 1960s, which stipulated stylistic and personal restraint beyond Conner's freewheeling nature. It is unlikely that Conner would ever sign such a restrictive document. Many send-ups of artistic authorship followed, including a five-page piece Conner had published in a major art publication in which Conner's making of a peanut butter , banana, bacon, lettuce, and Swiss cheese sandwich

9025-534: Was the creation of a “respite room” where visitors could pause after visiting the exhibition. The presentation also included special programming with community partners, such as workshops on grief. The Fine Arts Museums’ textiles collection boasts more than 13,000 textiles and costumes from around the world. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of its type in the United States. It comprises costume and costume accessories; loom-woven textiles; non-woven fabrics; and objects whose primary decoration

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