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Stella!!!

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on April 25, 2013

Step into Gallery 14 at the de Young and you will immediately encounter the riot of geometric color that is Frank Stella’s impressive 12-foot-square painting, Lettre sur les aveugles II (1974). This vibrant new acquisition represents the first of Stella’s paintings to enter the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Frank Stella's Lettre sur les aveugles II, 1974

Frank Stella (American, b. 1936). Lettre sur les aveugles II, 1974. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Museum Purchase, Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions. 2013.1

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Love and the Maiden: A Harmony of Hues

Posted by Melissa Buron on April 19, 2012

In this installment of our continuing blog series examining key elements of the Aesthetic Movement through the lens of John Stanhope’s masterwork Love and the Maiden (typically on view in gallery 18 at the Legion of Honor and currently on view in The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860–1900), curatorial assistant of European art Melissa Buron takes a closer look at color.

Love and the Maiden

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (English, 1829–1908). Love and the Maiden, 1877. Tempera, gold paint and gold leaf on canvas. Museum purchase, European Art Trust Fund, Grover A. Magnin Bequest Fund and Dorothy Spreckels Munn Bequest Fund. 2002.176

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