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Exhibiting Excellence: Recent Acquisitions, 2006–2009

October 17, 2009 - January 17, 2010

The past few years have marked a high point in the Fine Arts Museums’ acquisitions program, with many outstanding works of art joining the permanent collection. To showcase the highlights of our recent acquisitions, a small exhibition has been organized in the Barbara Carleton Gallery at the de Young. Here, you will see some of the finest acquisitions from all art departments of the Museums: American painting and sculpture, European painting and decorative arts, works on paper, textiles, ancient art, and art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

About the de Young

Founded in 1895 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum has been an integral part of the cultural fabric of the city and a cherished destination for millions of residents and visitors to the region for over 100 years.

 

Individual Giving

Individual donors to the Fine Arts Museums make our exhibitions, education programs, and the conservation of our collections possible. There are many ways that you can support the Museums:

Corporate Support of the Fine Arts Museums

Investing in Art, Education, and our Community

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), comprising the de Young in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is a thriving arts organization with exciting exhibitions, innovative education programs, and popular public events. Last year, attendance at the Fine Arts Museums exceeded 2.25 million, making FAMSF the fourth most visited visual arts institution in North America and among the top 20 most visited institutions in the world.

Aligning your corporate identity with our wide-ranging programs will help your company achieve its brand awareness, client entertainment, employee access, and philanthropic goals, while also working to increase community access, expand public participation, and deepen understanding and appreciation of the arts.

Corporate Partnership Opportunities

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Volunteer

With numerous exhibitions and community programs, both the Legion of Honor and the de Young rely greatly on the Fine Arts Museums' Volunteer Council, a vital, 500 member-strong organization that provides visitor services and staff support at the Museums, seven days a week.

New volunteers are being accepted for weekdays and weekend shifts working on the floor at both the de Young and Legion of Honor.  On the Floor Volunteers help man the information desks at both museums, assist patrons in parcel checks, distribute wheelchair and accessibility devices, and help with attendance tracking.  Floor Volunteers work directly with public on a daily basis, so an affinity for customer service is essential!

If you'd like to apply, please click the "Volunteer Application" link on the left of this screen. 

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

September 25, 2010 - January 18, 2011

The second of two exhibitions from the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay follows on the heels of the first with a selection of the most famous late-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir, as well as works representing the individualist styles of the early modern masters, including Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, and the Nabis Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard.

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The Book and the Binding

Reva and David Logan Gallery of Illustrated Books
November 17, 2012 - March 24, 2013

It was not until the emergence of the artist book in the 20th century that book bindings—a book’s front and back covers and spine—came to be appreciated as more than merely protective or decorative. In the early 1900s, any deluxe artist book—with original print illustrations by a well-known artist, printed on fine papers, and issued unbound in limited quantity—fairly cried out for a creative binding. Collectors of these elegant books often commissioned bookbinders to fabricate unique leather covers with original designs that evoked the spirit or mood of the book’s text or illustrations.

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Eye Level in Iraq: Photographs by Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson

February 9, 2013 - June 16, 2013

This exhibition presents the photographs of Kael Alford (American, b. 1971) and Thorne Anderson (American, b. 1966), two American-trained photo journalists who documented the impact and aftermath of the US-led allied invasion of Iraq in 2003. They made these photographs during a two-year span that began in the months leading up to the allied invasion in spring 2003 and covers the emergence of the armed militias that challenged the allied forces and later the new central Iraqi government.

The photographs were made outside the confines of the U.S. military’s embedded journalist program, in an attempt to get closer to the daily realities of Iraqi citizens. The photographers wanted to show Iraq from an important and often neglected point of view. This shift in physical perspective placed them in great danger, but they sought to learn how the war, and the seismic political and cultural shifts that accompanied it, were affecting ordinary people.

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