#FAMSF

@soulsgrowndeep.bsky.social

4 months ago

On this day, 100 years ago, the Legion of Honor opened in San Francisco. It is a classically styled museum currently hosting "Manet & Moriset" Two French Impressionist friends that complemented each other's work.

I've been through the exhibit once, and plan to go again.

#FAMSF #LegionofHonor

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Souls Grown Deep

6 months ago

Thornton Dial’s Lost Cows (2000–2001), part of the permanent collection at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, critiques American excess with welded force.

#ThorntonDial #LostCows #FAMSF #SoulsGrownDeep #AssemblageArt

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Ms. Hala

@mshala.co

8 months ago

A glimpse into Isaac Julien's "And Again (Statues Never Die)", part of his larger exhibition at the de Young Museum.

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#IsaacJulien #IDreamAWorld #deYoung #FAMSF #SanFrancisco #California #BayArea #museum #exhibit #artexhibit #modernart #visualart #cinematicexperience #blackart #blackartist

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9 months ago

#BayArea, The #FAMSF is showing it's annual #BouquetToArt . And this year the #LegionOfHonor is hosting part of the exhibit. Smaller venue, but smaller crowds.
Highly recommended!

Oh, by the way, there is a Wayne Theibaud exhibit as well. One of my favorite artists.

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11 months ago

The entrance to the Legion of Honor, looking back as The Thinker remains lost in thought

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11 months ago

Attention SF Bay Area!

Paul McCartney photographs has opened at the De Young. He did not take technically perfect pictures, but he definitely has an eye for what to photograph. It is an extensive collection of images from 1963-1965 of mostly B&W photographs.

PS: Ringo is a ham.

#FAMSF

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Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art This exhibition explores Wayne Thiebaud’s deep engagement with art history, showcasing his reinterpretations of iconic works and inspirations behind his paintings.

1 year ago

Bay Area people, and tourists who come to visit, there are two amazing exhibits at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. #famsf #photography

Sir Paul McCartney photographs at the De Young.

Wayne Thiebaud at the Legion, opens 3/22.

www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...

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Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

1 year ago

In 1745, English artist Arthur Devis painted this full-length portrait of Alicia Maria Carpenter calmly wearing a silver ruched ivory silk dress with gold trim and pannier (hoop skirt) with extremely wide sides and flat front extending the skirt to be wider than her height. This style originated in Spanish court dress of the 17th century, spread thanks to portraits by Diego Velázquez, and became popular with the social elite after hitting the Paris fashion scene in 1718-1719. Carpenter's dress uses panels of ruched white satin between strips of gold (possibly lace). The revers (lining facing outside) extends to her open low neckline and up over her shoulders. In a room with wood floor, stone (or stone-like) walls and columns, the slender aristocrat stands with her hands at her narrow waist next to a small wooden round table with her folded fan and a single long white elbow-length glove on top. She is in the process of reaching to take off the matching glove from her left arm. Her overly-pale skin and facial features are delicate, with a rounded face, expressive eyes, a straight nose, and a gentle smile. Her lips with dark red rouge are full and soft. Her dark brown hair is styled in a fashionable neatly-arranged series of tight curls to her shoulder and topped with a looping headdress of small pearls that matches her earring with a larger shiny pearl. Devis was a Lancashire-born British artist from a dynastic family of artists descending from his father Anthony Devis including Arthur's half-brother painter Anthony Devis and Arthur's painter sons Thomas Anthony Devis and Arthur William Devis.

Portrait of Alicia Maria Carpenter, Later Countess of Egremont by Arthur Devis (English) - Oil on canvas / 1745 - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (California) #womeninart #dress #art #oilpainting #portrait #ArthurDevis #FAMSF #artwork #Devis #womensart #portrait #baroque #rococo #portraitofawoman

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1 year ago

The statue of Joan of Arc mirroring the trees and San Francisco’s Sutro tower all looking skyward

© Rick Ehling 📷01/05/2025
#SkySunday #TwinPeaks #SutroTower #legionofhonor #FAMSF #JoanofArc #AnnaVaughnHyatt #LincolnPark #SanFrancisco #California #lookingsouthwest #scape

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1 year ago

Mary Cassatt The Barefooted Child, 1896–98. Blue Drypoint and aquatint, in color, on off-white laid paper Dimensions: 24.4 × 32 cm (9 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.); Sheet: 29.5 × 42.8 cm (11 5/8 × 16 7/8 in.)

Mary Cassatt The Barefooted Child, 1896–98. Gold Drypoint and aquatint, in color, on off-white laid paper Dimensions: 24.4 × 32 cm (9 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.); Sheet: 29.5 × 42.8 cm (11 5/8 × 16 7/8 in.)

© Rick Ehling 📷 01/05/2025 🖼️ #MaryCassatt #LegionofHonor #FAMSF #SanFrancisco #California #museum #exhibition #aquatint
Mary Cassatt at Work, open through 01/26/2025, paintings, pastels, aquatints, and etchings.
The aquatints alone would make this exhibit worth it.
One work, two color ways.

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1 year ago

SF Bay Area folk, the #DeYoung museum, part of the #FAMSF pair has an exhibit of Tamara de Lempicka, an artist credited with getting the Art Deco movement rolling from the canvases.
Funfact: What is the largest piece of Art Deco on Earth?
Answer: The Golden Gate Bridge, built in the 30s.

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1 year ago

Mary Cassatt Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child, 1880 Oil on canvas 39 1/2 × 25 7/8 in. (100.33 × 65.72 cm) Framed: 47 15/16 × 34 5/8 × 4 3/4 in. (121.76 × 87.95 × 12.07 cm) LACMA collection

© Rick Ehling 📷 01/05/2025 #weekBforBB #alphabetchallenge #bathingbaby 🖼️ #MaryCassatt #LegionofHonor #FAMSF #SanFrancisco #California #museum #exhibition
Mary Cassatt at Work, open through 01/26/2025, a little over 2 weeks left to see this really excellent exhibit.

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